Tag: Media Freedom
Images: PMC journalists, academics, students and mentors celebrate 10 years
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Participants at the Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary celebration last Thursday held a silent vigil calling for justice for the victims...
Tribute to a NZ media mentor: ‘How Yasmine Ryan taught me...
Yasmine Ryan, an award-winning New Zealand journalist who died tragically on Thursday, was the first Western journalist to begin writing about the beginning of...
Philippines reporting risks grow under ‘The Punisher’, says PCIJ advocate
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Journalists in the Philippines take their life in their hands doing their job. What was already one of the world's riskiest...
PMC photojournalism book offers ‘window’ into Pacific culture, issues
Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary in pictures. Video: Kendall Hutt/PMC
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The Pacific Media Centre kicked off its 10th anniversary celebrations last...
Livestreaming: Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in an event...
Media freedom under the spotlight in PMC 10th anniversary event
A video made by Sasya Wreksono to mark the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Threats to media freedom...
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...
Philippines under Duterte – acute impunity and fettered information
ANALYSIS: By Malou Mangahas in Manila
Eight years ago on 23 November 2009, 32 journalists were among the 58 who were killed in what is...
PMC to put spotlight on Asia-Pacific ‘journalism under duress’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in...
RSF condemns ‘gag’ of Tonga’s state broadcaster ahead of general election
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned moves by Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva’s government to "gag" the Tonga Broadcasting Commission prior to...
Tongan broadcasting chief blames TBC shake-up on news failure
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The Tonga Broadcasting Commission was restructured to save it from being closed down, says the commission’s chair, Dr...
Tongan journalists who clashed with PM reshuffled out of TBC newsroom
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Two senior journalists have been ousted from the newsroom for new roles in a shake-up at the state...
Willie Jackson: Vision, hope and compassion will beat lies in NZ
OPINION: By Willie Jackson
Never before has Labour come from 23 percent to be neck and neck with National. Jacinda has touched people and made...
The Daily Blog: Why we’re giving 13 NZ political parties a...
Kiwi Fair Go Debate #KiwiFairGo - tonight at 8pm.
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury of The Daily Blog
I love New Zealand's democracy. It’s representative, it allows...
Journalist faces defamation probe over Indonesia’s treatment of West Papua posting
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
Indonesian police in East Java are investigating a veteran journalist for comparing former President Megawati Sukarnoputri to Myanmar's Aung...
Cambodia Daily branded ‘a thief’, forced to close over tax fight
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
One of Cambodia's last remaining independent newspapers has announced it is closing today after 24 years, the latest in a series...
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...
RNZI hits back at Tongan media bias claims
By Philip Cass in Auckland
Radio New Zealand International's presenter of Dateline Pacific, Don Wiseman, has suggested Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva's son read the New Zealand...
Public interest journalism at a ‘crossroads’, says MEAA
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says public interest journalism is at a "crossroads" in its submission to the country's Senate inquiry into the future...
Global media freedom summit slams Gulf states, supports Al Jazeera
By Dr Joseph M Fernandez in Doha, Qatar
The international freedom of expression conference in Doha has ended with a strong condemnation of the threats...
RSF condemns media freedom ‘violations’, gag in PNG election
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned many media freedom violations during the general elections held in Papua New Guinea from 24...