Tag: Journalist safety
‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to...
OPINION: By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
The Timor-Leste authorities have to improve significantly the conditions in which journalists are working to cover the Covid-19 coronavirus...
Journalists fighting oil palm plantation found stabbed to death in Sumatra
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Two Indonesian journalists who had reported on an illegal oil palm plantation in Sumatra have been found stabbed to death.
According to...
Australian news crew detained in Kiribati for providing ‘false information’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A five-member film crew from 60 Minutes Australia has been in detained in Kiribati for what government sources claimed was false...
Australia needs a Media Freedom Act – here’s how it could...
By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh
Australians picked up their morning papers yesterday to find heavily blacked-out text instead of front-page headlines. This bold statement was instigated by the “Your...
Intimidation of journos in Papua condemned
By RNZ Pacific
Journalist organisations in Indonesia have condemned alleged discrimination towards their colleagues by police in West Papua.
Three leading journalists in Papua were prevented...
New Zealand newsrooms becoming more caring, says journalist
By Irra Lee of Te Waha Nui
A well-known Kiwi journalist has said the New Zealand news industry is getting better at showing care for...
RSF condemns journalist assaults as Hong Kong violence escalates
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
As four more journalists were assaulted in the Hong Kong area last Sunday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the...
Indonesian police not investigating violence against journalists, says AJI
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesian police have not been investigating reported cases of violence against journalists, reports Indonesian news magazine Tempo.
According to the Jakarta Alliance...
Rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent journalist Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa and the Philippines "war on truth". Video: Al Jazeera's Witness
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
International human rights lawyers Amal Clooney and Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC...
Trauma research on TV journalists covering killings revealed in Pacific Journalism...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately.
Revelations in...
PINA condemns attack on PNG journalist covering volcano
By RNZ Pacific
The president of the Pacific Islands News Association says he is appalled and disappointed by an attack on Papua New Guinea journalist...
‘Time of anxiety’ – a depressing new normal for local journalists...
By Colleen Murrell in Melbourne
For journalists who cover Afghanistan, the bombing that killed nine local reporters last week in Kabul was a sober reminder...
IFJ blasts ‘press freedom attack’ on Iranian-Kurdish journalist in PNG
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) in condemning the reported arrest of...
Timely strategic research spotlights killings of journalists
A trailer for the controversial Anas investigation into corruption by Ghana's judiciary. Video: AnanseGH TV
BOOKS: By David Robie
The Ghanaian investigative journalist summed up the...