Tag: Media Freedom
Blogger stabbed to death in Maldives as CPJ issues media freedom...
Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports on one journalist's arrest and detention in Egypt. Video: Al Jazeera
Authorities in the Maldives should swiftly identify and bring...
Balance of rights and duties should ‘protect journalists’, says Wiranto
Indonesia's Chief Security Minister Wiranto says it is important to maintain a "balance" between rights and duties to avoid violence against journalists on duty.
Wiranto...
Blacklisting of freelance journalist on Papua mission ‘paranoid’, says Tempo
ANALYSIS: Tempo
The blacklisting of Jack Hewson, a freelance journalist working for Al Jazeera, shows the Indonesian government's paranoia towards foreign journalists.
The government should allow...
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism closes after 25 years
The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, one of the flagships of investigative journalism, has been closed after 25 years in a controversial decision by...
RSF calls on Jokowi to honour pledge to let journalists work...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Indonesian President Joko Widodo to keep his election promise to allow local and international journalists to operate...
Investigation into Fiji Times sedition charge steps up with search warrant
Pacific Media Watch
Sedition charges against several Fiji Times Limited staff have loomed larger with the Criminal Investigations Department of the Fijian police force executing...
Drop ‘politically-motivated’ sedition case against Fiji Times, says AI
The Fijian authorities must immediately drop politically-motivated sedition charges against The Fiji Times newspaper group, says Amnesty International.
“By charging The Fiji Times with sedition,...
‘Nothing stopping investigative journalism,’ claims Khaiyum
Communications Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum claims there is "absolutely nothing" stopping investigative journalism in Fiji, the major television network reports,
Media freedom – especially for critical...
Prominent opposition Indonesian journalist Ahmad Taufik dies
Prominent Indonesian journalist Ahmad Taufik has died after an illness in Jakarta. He was 51.
Taufik, known as an opposition journalist during President Suharto’s dictatorship,...
Two French journalists deported from Papua over alleged visa violations
By Nethy Dharma Somba in Jayapura
Indonesia's Tembagapura Immigration Office has banned two French journalists, Jean Frank Pierre, 45, and Basille Marie Longhamp, 42, from...
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...
Attack on FBC reporter outside court stirs Fiji media protests
By Kelly Vacala in Suva
The safety of media personnel has come under the spotlight again after an attack on a Fiji Broadcasting Corporation television...
RSF protests over ‘unscrupulous’ censorship, surveillance of journos
On World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released a report denouncing the readiness with which leading internet companies submit to the demands...
Prosecutors consider sedition charges against Fiji Times publisher and editor
By Vijay Narayan and Semi Turaga in Suva
Fiji's Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Lee Burney has informed the High Court in Suva that the...
Press freedom fact-finding mission to West Papua faces challenges
By Tara Nissl in Jakarta
Eight journalists from eight Indonesian media outlets traveled to West Papua earlier this month to investigate media freedom and the...
Philippines press freedom still under pressure with journalist killings
By Florence Peschke
Seven months into the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, press freedom remains under pressure in the Philippines.
The country has been one of...
Court bars overseas travel for accused Fiji Times publisher
By Tokasa Rainima in Suva
Fiji Times publisher Hank Arts’ bail variation application has been dismissed by the Suva High Court.
Justice Thushara Rajasinghe told Arts...
Vanuatu Daily Post marks 5000 issues – celebrating a pioneer of...
From the Vanuatu Daily Post's celebration special edition today:
Marc Neil-Jones’ newspaper Vanuatu Daily Post celebrates an historic milestone today. We need to remember how...
Dan McGarry: The future of media freedom – we can’t take...
By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post
Media freedom is everyone’s freedom. We can’t take it for granted.
My education in the challenges...
Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage
War Reporters, a short video launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last year to honour journalists facing "danger zones". Its release coincided with the...
Cartoons: Malcolm Evans on inside the New Zealand Herald editorial office
Malcolm Evans is one of New Zealand's best political cartoonists who was dumped from his New Zealand Herald contract for daring to suggest Israel...
Brother seeks answers from Australia over NZ death at Balibo
The Death of the Balibo Five ... a Footprint Films extra including clips from the film Balibo and interviews with the film director, Robert...