Tag: Media Freedom
PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout
PNG Post-Courier
Police in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District are investigating the shooting yesterday of a woman reporter working with the National Broadcasting Corporation...
RNZ review: Changes to be made as ‘promptly as possible’, says...
RNZ News
The integration of RNZ's digital team with the wider news team was meant to take place during the merger with TVNZ that never...
China trying to buy influence with Pacific media as it strengthens...
By Mackenzie Smith and Toby Mann of ABC Pacific Beat
Concerns have been raised about foreign influence in Pacific media after it was revealed Solomon...
Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The media sector in the Pacific should be supported with an enabling environment to...
Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding
By Bernadette Carreon and Aubrey Belford
A major daily newspaper in Solomon Islands received nearly US$140,000 in funding from the Chinese government in return for...
Fiji media condemn ‘distasteful, unacceptable’ threats by former PM
By Rakesh Kumar in Suva
The Fijian Media Association (FMA) has labelled comments made by former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama this week to media workers...
Papuan media groups condemn police repression over mangrove forest destruction reporting
Jubi News
Media organisations in Papua -- including the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) of Jayapura City, the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) of Papua and...
Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or...
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...
NZ’s Media Freedom Council slams mayor Brown’s ban attempt as ‘insult...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown's exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today "unacceptable".
In an...
Hong Kong responds with veiled threat while claiming it still respects...
Pacific Media Watch
Just hours after Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 116 publishers, editors-in-chief, and senior editors from around the world called for the release...
‘Free Jimmy Lai now’ plea by RSF and 116 global media...
Pacific Media Watch
More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing...
Human rights arguments have lost credibility over double standards
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...
Journalist David Robie launches new open access Café Pacific website
Pacific Media Watch
Journalist, author and media academic David Robie has launched an independent news and current affairs website to complement his long-established Asia Pacific...
Pacific media freedom: The day the Fiji police arrested me at...
By Serafina Silaitoga in Labasa, Fiji
It was a typical Sunday morning on August 10, 2008, as I enjoyed breakfast with the family, lots of...
Pacific Islands Forum Media Freedom Day message: Truth without fear
By Henry Puna, Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum
On World Press Freedom Day the world remembers the importance of a free and independent media...
Pacific journalists around region mark progress but warn of new risks
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
World Press Freedom Day has been marked by journalists around the world, including the Pacific.
Launched by the United Nations...
Fiji Times: Fiji media freedom’s big win against ‘imperious rule’
By John Mitchell
For many years, Fiji’s media operated under imperious rule and struggled under restrictive laws and climate overwhelmed by fear.
Under that political environment,...
Timor-Leste makes top ten in 2023 World Press Freedom Index
Highlights of the 2023 World Press Freedom Index. Video: RSF
By David Robie
Timor-Leste has topped a stunning rise among Asia-Pacific countries to make it to...
Samoa Observer: 2023 World Press Freedom Day – reflection, celebration
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
There will be celebrations as well as self-contemplation in newsrooms around the world today to mark World Press...
Pacific eyes on media as Blinken joins RSF’s 2023 World Press...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific eyes will be on the World Press Freedom Index 2023 when it is launched today as concerns grow over the slip...
News Corp among Namaliu’s farewell messages – for ‘free, fearless media’
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
The late Sir Rabbie Namaliu’s character and his humble leadership featured well in one of Australia’s top news organisations...
Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped
By Lydia Lewis and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalists
The Fiji Parliament has voted to "kill" a draconian media law in Suva today, sending newsrooms...