Tag: Press Freedom
RSF calls on Philippine state to ‘stop hounding’ Rappler in ‘laughable’...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Philippine authorities to stop hounding Rappler, after officials confirmed that a previously dismissed...
‘This isn’t the time to be silent,’ say writers defending Rappler
By Jee Y. Geronimo in Manila
After the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) decision to revoke Rappler's licence to operate in a blow to press...
RSF media freedom round-up for 2017 – 65 journalists killed, 326...
Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from London. Video: Al Jazeera/RSF
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Reporters Without Borders has documented the number of journalists killed or jailed...
Philippine media freedom riskier, traumatic under Duterte, says PCIJ director
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Being a journalist in the Philippines has become a lot tougher, riskier and traumatic in the face of President Rodrigo...
Pacific Media Centre turns ten, talks media freedom under violent threat
Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre has marked its tenth anniversary with a seminar discussing two of the wider region's most critical media...
Images: PMC journalists, academics, students and mentors celebrate 10 years
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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
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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
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Threats to media freedom...
IFJ blasts ‘press freedom attack’ on Iranian-Kurdish journalist in PNG
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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’
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The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in...
Timor-Leste journalists facing jail for defamation over PM criticism
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliates Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) and the South East...
Images: Papuan street art, freedom seminar pose challenge at Jakarta’s WPFD2017
Photographs by David Robie and Bernard Agapa in Jakarta
The World Press Freedom Day organisers, UNESCO and the Indonesian Press Council, marginalised the highly sensitive...
Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy
Al Jazeera's coverage by Step Vaessen of the Papuan protest at WPFD2017 in Jakarta.
By David Robie in Jakarta | Audio report from the PMC's...
Indonesia is ‘double-dealing’ on media freedom, says RSF
Reporters Without Borders has condemned what it calls Indonesia's "double-dealing" as the nation hosts World Press Freedom Day while it continues to harass independent...
Calls for safety of Indonesian, West Papuan journalists to be prioritised
Independent journalists, human rights defenders and freedom organisations in Timor-Leste have appealed for international bodies to ensure the safety of Indonesian journalists.
With World...
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...
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,...
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...