Tag: Media Freedom
JAWS president backs call to abolish Samoa’s criminal libel law
By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu in Apia
Rudy Bartley, president of the Journalist Association of Samoa (JAWS), has supported the international call for Samoa’s government to abolish...
Fiji judge orders retrial in ‘hate graffiti’ spray painting sedition case
By Jessica Savike in Suva
Fiji High Court judge Justice Vinsent Perera has ordered a retrial of former opposition SODELPA parliamentarian Mosese Bulitavu and Fiji...
Indonesian police detain 49 in attack, vandalising of Papuan dormitory
By Bastian Tebai in Surabaya
Indonesian police last night arrested 49 Papuan students who live at the Kamasan Papuan Dormitory in the East Java provincial...
Dan McGarry: Fighting for media freedom and truth in the Pacific
When the host country Nauru banned the pool broadcaster, ABC, from the Pacific Islands summit set for next month, it was condemned widely for...
RSF calls on Nauru to allow banned ABC to cover Pacific...
By Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Nauru to rescind its decision to bar Australia’s public radio and TV broadcaster, ABC,...
Nauru media ban on ABC targets Australian detention centre gag
There has been much wringing of hands over Nauru’s ban on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for next month’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit. But,...
Controversial ‘Confucius’ doco gets mixed response at NZ universities
In The Name Of Confucius trailer for the 52-minute documentary.
A Chinese government-sponsored cultural and education programme offers Mandarin lessons around the world. But a...
‘Don’t play with fire’ warning in Samoa’s social media threat
Many Samoans are angry over a threat by the prime minister earlier this year to ban the social media platform Facebook amid growing pressure...
PNG Facebook ban threat casts shadow over Pacific media freedom
Papua New Guinea threatened to temporarily ban Facebook earlier this year. With the APEC conference looming in November, the question remains whether this was...
ABC’s shortwave cutback ‘weakens thin link’ for Pacific, says PMC
By Leilani Sitagata of Pacific Media Watch
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s cutback in services to the Asia-Pacific region has “weakened the thin link” that many...
NZ Pacific journalists ‘appalled’ by Nauru ban on ABC at Forum
The ABC has a reputation for vigorous reporting of Pacific issues, including human rights violations at the Australian-established Nauru detention centre for asylum seekers....
RSF condemns Nine-Fairfax merger as threat to media pluralism in Australia
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about pluralism and respect for editorial independence in the new Australian media conglomerate created...
An open letter to Israel: The global ‘blockade busters’ ...
By Chris Graham on board the Al Awda
By the time you read this, I’ll be sailing on an old, converted fishing trawler from Sicily,...
Bid to unite Asia-Pacific press councils takes off in Timor-Leste
By Bob Howarth in Dili, Timor-Leste
The Dili Dialogue Forum, sponsored by UNESCO and organised by the Timor-Leste Press Council, will be held again next...
Fiji’s media decree and ‘draconian’ approach difficult, says publisher
By Koro Vaka'uta of RNZ Pacific
The outgoing general manager and publisher of The Fiji Times says his job has been made difficult by the...
RSF condemns killing of radio journalist – shot in Philippines
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the killing of Philippine radio journalist Joey Llana near Legazpi City, at the southeastern tip...
Protests gather force over Nauru ban on ABC from Pacific Forum
By Mong Palatino
Protests have been gathering force over the Nauru government ban on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from entering the country to cover...
‘Sick joke’, threats cited in Asia-Pacific declining media freedom summit
Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire talks about the global threat against journalists. Video: Café Pacific
By David Robie in Paris
When Reporters Without Borders chief...
RSF plea to Indonesia to investigate reporter’s death in detention
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for an independent inquiry into the death in detention of Muhammad Yusuf, a reporter who...
Vanuatu plans cyber crime law to target Facebook ‘false claims’
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai, the Minister responsible for Telecommunications, has informed Parliament that a cyber crime bill currently being developed will address the...
Rappler’s editor Maria Ressa wins global press freedom award
Golden Pen winner Maria Ressa talks about "government impunity" over "war on drugs" killings and social media hate speech. Video: Rappler
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
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Juffa accuses O’Neill government of ‘shutting down’ free speech in PNG
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Oro Governor Garry Juffa says the people of PNG find it "frightening" and "alarming" that the Papua New Guinea government is...