Tag: Arab Spring
Tributes flow for NZ’s Arab Spring journalist Yasmine Ryan
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
New Zealand journalist Yasmine Ryan, credited with being the first reporter writing in English about the Arab Spring from her base...
PMC’s 10th birthday Pacific ‘overview’ highlighted on national radio
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre, well established as a champion for media freedom, celebrated its 10th anniversary last week and the milestone...
Tribute to a NZ media mentor: ‘How Yasmine Ryan taught me...
Yasmine Ryan, an award-winning New Zealand journalist who died tragically on Thursday, was the first Western journalist to begin writing about the beginning of...
Rights groups condemn ‘cowardly censorship’ bid over Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Watch
Press freedom and human rights advocates, journalists and social media users have condemned a demand by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries...
New York Times condemns ‘misguided’ attempt to silence Al Jazeera
Silencing Al Jazeera was a high priority when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen moved to isolate Qatar earlier this month,...
Arab Spring opened some media freedoms in spite of the overall...
By Pacific Media Watch
The Arab Spring opened the door to some greater freedoms in Middle East news media and some social change in spite...
