Tag: Media Freedom
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...
Solomon Islands riots: ‘We’ll shoot you with stones’ abuse for journalists
By Mike Tua in Honiara
Facing angry rioters threatening them with physical attacks, Solomon Islands mainstream and freelance journalists and photographers were confronted with an...
‘No stranger to media freedom threats’, but hope at communication forum
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report
Keynote speakers professor David Robie and Glenda Gloria, executive editor of Rappler, addressed “truth and justice” on the opening...
Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two...
CPJ demands Facebook restore ‘censored’ press freedom awards video
The Committee to Protect Journalists press freedom 2021 video removed by Facebook, but still available on YouTube and Twitter. Video: CPJ (Hongkong crackdown at...
Graham Davis: Fiji’s draconian media law and a gag on truth
COMMENT: By Graham Davis
If anyone is wondering why the Fijian media hasn’t reported the details of my reporting on Grubsheet Feejee of the Prime...
Chinese, Palestinian journalists and Pegasus Project win free press awards
RSF president Pierre Haski announces the 29th RSF Press Freedom Awards in Paris. Video: RSF
Reporters Without Borders
The 2021 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom...