Tag: Freedom of Information
John Minto: NZ government and media must own up to their...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The absolute impunity which the Aotearoa New Zealand government has given to Israel’s racist apartheid regime over many decades and the...
‘Intimidated’ Fiji worst place for Pacific journalists, says RSF’s freedom index
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has been ranked as the worst place in the Pacific region for journalists in the latest assessment by the global press freedom...
Media freedom slide in Australia ‘undermining’ ability to project democratic values
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A Melbourne-based Indonesian media academic has warned that declining media freedom in Australia is undermining the country's ability to project liberal...
Take action, don’t just offer words, MEAA tells Australia on media...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The next Australian government must recommit to press freedom by putting in place overdue reforms to support public interest journalism, says...
Isaac ‘Iron’ Nicholas, the fearless PNG reporter who led from the...
OBITUARY: By the PNG Post-Courier
"Iron" we called him. And so he was, our iron man at Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier in Lawes Road, Port...
Hong Kong indy Stand News shuts down in face of Chinese...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Hong Kong independent media Stand News has announced it has shut down following the arrest last week of six current and...
Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific ReportThe troubled nation of Solomon Islands, whose Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare won a no-confidence vote 32 votes...
‘Sextortion’ problem for Pacific states – but lower for Fiji, says...
By Anish Chand in Suva
Of 1000 Fijians surveyed by Transparency International, 11 percent claimed they were asked for sexual favours in exchange for government...
Pacific journos call on governments to uphold public right to information
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva
Information as a public good is a powerful theme for this year’s World Press Freedom Day and serves as a...
PNG military police help out with covid-19 awareness campaign
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
Thirty Papua New Guinea Defence Force soldiers are working with other security personnel and the NCD covid-19 team to...
Facebook news ban turns attention to tech giants’ impact on journalism
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney
The tech juggernaut Facebook’s shock decision to block all news feeds from Australian media outlets this week in response to...
Kasun Ubayasiri: How will ruthless billionaire posturing by Rupert and Zuckerberg...
COMMENT: By Kasun Ubayasiri in Brisbane
It has indeed been a few strange days for Australian news media. Apparently, monopolies are bad if they are...
RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia,...
Solomon Islands businesses, rights groups condemn Facebook ban plan
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Struggling businesses have expressed concerns and international media rights groups have condemned the Solomon Islands government’s proposal to temporarily ban...
New Caledonia court again defers Temaru case over Radio Tefana
By RNZ Pacific
The court case in New Caledonia brought by French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru against the French prosecutor over the Faa'a community...
Jornal Independente wins annual ‘best media’ award in Timor-Leste
By Jose Sarito Amaral in Balibo
The Jornal Independente newspaper has been awarded Timor-Leste's mediaoutlet of the year prize in the National Press Council’s 2019...
Media under strain in Melanesia during challenging era
By RNZ Pacific
Hostile media environments pose growing challenges to Melanesia's democracies, according to a new edition of the Pacific Journalism Review.
With its first special...
West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Indonesia's West Papua province has again been recorded as having the worst democracy index in the republic, reports CNN Indonesia.
This year...
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...
PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report
The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour.
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea's two daily newspapers...
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...
Hong Kong police arrest Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai among 14...
Pacific Media Watch
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Hong Kong authorities to drop all charges against Jimmy Lai, founder and chair of...