Tag: Journalists
Journalist ‘hauled in’ for police questioning at Malaysia land protest
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A journalist has been taken in for police questioning while documenting the land struggles of Temiar Orang Asli, an indigenous community...
Media raids raise questions of police power over journalists, whistleblowers
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
In their raids on media organisations, journalists and whistleblowers, the Australian Federal Police have shown themselves...
António Sampaio: Freedom of the press – rights, responsibilities and transparency
By António Sampaio in Dili, Timor-Leste
New debates in Timor-Leste are circulating about political interference in newsrooms. Attempts to condition or determine that somebody cannot...
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...
Nauru, PNG join Fiji in global ‘obstructed’ freedoms watchlist
Six in 10 countries now seriously repressing civic freedoms, according to findings in the latest Civicus Monitor, a global research collaboration tracking fundamental freedoms...
Nepal’s new legal codes spark medical, media protests and divide nation
Nepal has recently updated its legal system with new civil and criminal codes. However, writes Rahul Bhattarai of Asia Pacific Report, failure to consult...
Journalist Yasmine Ryan’s death in Istanbul fall shocks colleagues
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A New Zealand journalist and associate of the Pacific Media Centre has been killed in a fall from a building in...
Police brutally attack Papuan journalist in Timika, says human rights group
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned a brutal attack against journalist Saldi Hermanto in Timika, Papua, and called for...
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...
Duterte’s brutal ‘war on the poor’ and also those reporting it
Al Jazeera's Listening Post programme on the Philippine "war on drugs".
ANALYSIS: Presented by Richard Gizbert
The most violent week yet in President Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines...
Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy
Al Jazeera's coverage by Step Vaessen of the Papuan protest at WPFD2017 in Jakarta.
By David Robie in Jakarta | Audio report from the PMC's...
Predators of press freedom use fake news as a censorship tool,...
The struggle to expose the real truth ... human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on the silencing of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, jailed for...
