Tag: Media independence
Islands Business publisher Samantha Magick – storyteller, risk-taker and community champion
By Teagan Laszlo, Queensland University of Technology
For Samantha Magick, journalism isn't just a job. It is a lifelong commitment to storytelling, advocacy, and empowering...
US elections: Editorial writers at LA Times, Washington Post resign after...
Writers resign from The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times in protest over the blocking of their editorials by the billionaire owners. Video: Democracy...
InsidePNG’s Sincha Dimara wins East-West ‘courage award’ for free press
Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinean journalist Sincha Dimara, news editor at the online publication InsidePNG, is one of seven recipients of this year's East-West...
Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui
Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies...
Mehdi Hasan on genocide in Gaza and the silencing of Palestinian...
Democracy Now!
Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Democracy Now! to discuss US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is...
New ABC chair must restore reputation for independence, says MEAA
Pacific Media Watch
The incoming chair of the ABC, Kim Williams, must immediately move to restore the reputation of Australia's national broadcaster by addressing concerns...
ABC staff ‘have lost confidence’ in boss in defending public trust...
Pacific Media Watch
Union members at the Australian public broadcaster ABC have today passed a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson for...
John Mitchell: Media freedom, public interest and The Fiji Times
By John Mitchell in Suva
In any true democracy, the role of journalists and the media outlets they represent is to inform the people so...
‘We’ll scrap Fiji’s Media Act … and allow free press,’ says...
By Vijay Narayan of Fijivillage
People’s Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka says a People’s Alliance government will scrap the draconian Media Industry Development Act and allow...