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Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression
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Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed...
Amidst coronavirus lockdown, biggest Philippines TV network goes off air
On Al Jazeera's The Listening Post this week: The Filipino government has forced local television network ABS-CBN off the air. Plus, covid-19 is used...
Inside Indonesia’s Secret War for West Papua – Foreign Correspondent
The 30-minute Foreign Correspondent report by ABC.
By ABC News Indepth
Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and...
Senator outrages Tahiti government with ‘brutal virus crisis’ criticism
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party's two members of...
‘Shut Freeport mine’ plea by Mimika regent after workers test positive
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The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by...
30 media freedom groups, academics, journalists protest over TV shutdown
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More than 30 media freedom groups, journalists and academics have combined in an international statement today condemning the closure of the largest...
NZME makes offer to buy rival Stuff for nominal $1
By RNZ News
NZME is insisting a deal for it to purchase media rival Stuff is still on the cards, despite Stuff's owner saying it...
Scott Waide: Look at the big picture, not just a breaking...
COMMENT: By Scott Waide, deputy regional head of news of EMTV News
Yesterday , we received a lot of criticism over our coverage of the...
Former PNG Defence Force chief calls for inquiry after policeman killed
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Former Papua New Guinea Defence Force commander Jerry Singirok has condemned the killing of a senior police officer allegedly by off-duty soldiers.
He...
Rappler publisher Maria Ressa raps Duterte for ‘security’ violations
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Rappler publisher and chief editor Maria Ressa was critical today of the Philippines administration under President Rodrigo Duterte for its focus on...
Shut down Philippines TV network journalist tells of ‘the unthinkable’
Rappler justice reporter Lian Buan talks to ABS-CBN's Mike Navallo who broke the report about the shutdown. Video: Rappler
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For the first time...
Journalism educators call for action after new Duterte attack on free...
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The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has called on the Australian government to make strong diplomatic representations to Philippine...
Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Philippine authorities to appoint a special independent team to investigate yesterday’s "shocking murder" of an...
West Papuan church leader invited by Indonesian police to ‘clarify’ article
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific's Melanesian affairs correspondent
A West Papuan church leader has been "invited" by Indonesian police to "clarify" an article he wrote...
Guam’s news blackout: Since when are our journalists being ‘info rationed’?
On World Press Freedom Day, Mar-Vic Cagurangan, editor and publisher of the Pacific Island Times, questions Guam's information management of the media amid the...
Pacific Beat: How Pacific governments use coronavirus crisis to curb media
By Radio Australia
There have been very few new covid-19 cases confirmed in the Pacific this week.
The total number of reported cases since March stands...
RSF challenges Fiji over general’s ‘stifle criticism’ views on virus
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned an op-ed by a pro-government military commander in Fiji last week defending curbs on freedom of...
‘If you don’t want to die, don’t come to Papua’, warns...
By Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta
When the first covid-19 coronavirus pandemic cases were detected in Indonesia, one doctor at least knew right away that...
Fiji media industry faces challenges over coronavirus disruption
By Apenisa Waqairadovu in Suva
The covid-19 coronovirus pandemic is increasingly disrupting countless industries across the world with a growing global economic crisis.
However, for the media...
TAPOL denounces sentences handed to Jakarta Six, calls for their release
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The Indonesian human rights advocacy group TAPOL has denounced the sentencing by the district court of Central Jakarta which found six political...
Jakarta court finds 6 activists guilty of treason for holding Papuan...
By Galih Gumelar in Jakarta
A panel of judges at the Central Jakarta District Court have found six activists guilty of committing treasonous acts for...
‘Don’t blame the messenger,’ warns UN over media virus crackdowns
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The United Nations rights chief has condemned countries using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to arrest journalists and restrict information, insisting...