Tag: Media Freedom
RSF refers Russian strikes on four Ukrainian TV towers for ICC...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor about Russian strikes on four radio...
No money, little experience, but Marshall Islands media icon leaves lasting...
OBITUARY: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Micronitor News and Printing Company founder Joe Murphy moved the goal...
How NZ’s Parliament anti-covid protest was brought to an end
By Sharon Brettkelly, co-host of RNZ's The Detail
After 23 days, the occupation at Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament was finally brought to a chaotic and...
AJI slams hacking of group chief’s accounts as attack on press...
By Vitorio Mantalean in Jakarta
The Indonesian Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) has condemned the hacking and disinformation attacks against the group's general chairperson Sasmito Madrim...
MEAA condemns EMTV’s ‘assault’ on PNG journalists’ rights
MEAA News
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance’s national media section committee of elected officials has condemned the suspension of 24 Papua New Guinean TV...
RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates...
PNGTUC blames minister Duma’s news blackout order for EMTV crisis
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A national trade union in Papua New Guinea today blamed State Enterprises Minister William Duma for causing a media freedom furore...
Jack Lapauve: Why we walked out in protest over EMTV news...
COMMENTARY: EMTV's deputy news editor Jack Lapauve Jr in Port Moresby writes in defence of the newsroom's decision to walk out in protest over...
Protesting EMTV news staff walk out – no live 6pm news...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Papua New Guinean television station EMTV did not run its usual 6pm news bulletin last night as its journalists and news...
Anti-media sentiment among NZ protesters big concern, say experts
By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter
The anti-mandate protests in New Zealand's capital Wellington and around the country have also contained a strong anti-media sentiment...
EMTV news team walk out in protest over suspension of their...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The national news team of Papua New Guinea's major television channel, EMTV, walked out last night in protest over a decision...
RSF condemns ‘unacceptable political meddling’ over PNG news chief suspension
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the "unacceptable political meddling" behind Sincha Dimara’s suspension as head of news and current affairs...
Media Council condemns EMTV over ‘dangerous’ suspension of news chief
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Media Council of PNG has condemned the suspension of the news chief of Papua New Guinea's major television channel, EMTV,...
Suspension of EMTV’s news chief sparks PNG journo protests
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Suspension of the news manager of Papua New Guinea's major television channel, EMTV, has sparked a flurry of protest from senior...
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...
Pacific media dangers: ‘I had death threats and my tyres slashed...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Joyce McClure in Guam
I spent five years as the lone journalist on the remote Pacific island of Yap. During that time...
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...
Global jailed journalists surge by 20% to 488 – 60 of...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned three "dictatorial regimes" -- Belarus, China and Myanmar -- for their...
Nobel Peace laureates slam ‘Damocles’ sword’ threat to press freedom
Pacific Media Watch
Despite its champions being honoured with a Nobel Peace Prize, press freedom has a "sword of Damocles" hanging over it, warn this...
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...
Nobel laureate Ressa: How the information ecosystem has been poisoned
By Bea Cupin in Manila
Journalist and publisher Maria Ressa has called on tech and social media giants to practise “enlightened self-interest” amid a global...
#HoldTheLine coalition demands charges against Maria Ressa be dropped before Nobel...
Reporters Without Borders
One week ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, the #HoldtheLine Coalition has called on the government of the Philippines to...