Tag: Press Freedom
Censoring SIBC an ‘assault on media freedom’ in Solomons, says IFJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the censoring of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) as an "assault...
Solomon Islands orders national broadcaster SIBC to ‘self-censor news’
By Annika Burgess of ABC Pacific Beat
The Solomon Islands government has ordered the country's national broadcaster to self-censor its news and other paid programmes...
Campaign over Solomons media freedom ‘misguided’, claims PM’s office
Solomon Times
The Solomon islands Prime Minister's office (PMO) has accused local news media of being involved in a "war on media freedom” that is...
Ajay Bhai Amrit: Freedom of the press – Fiji’s ranking a...
COMMENTARY: By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva
Bula readers. As some of you might be aware, I am a member of various media bodies and...
‘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...
Timor-Leste journalist faces probe after exposing child abuse case
By Sirwan Kajjo in Dili
In a deeply Catholic country, accusations that an American priest abused dozens of children at an orphanage stunned many in...
How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom
ANALYSIS: The restrictions on Pacific news media during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent Pacific trip are only the most recent example of a...
Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Radio broadcaster Federico "Ding" Gempesaw has been shot and killed in broad daylight in front of his home in Carmen, Cagayan...
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa calls for journalists to fight ‘Devil’s megaphone’
East-West Center
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and press freedom champion Maria Ressa wasn’t intending to make breaking news when she planned her keynote address at...
Timor-Leste journalist Raimundos Oki charged with breach of ‘legal secrets’...
The Oekusi Post
Journalist and editor-in-chief Raimundos Oki of Timor-Leste's online media Oekusipost.com was today accused of "violating legal secrets" related to his reporting about...
Stand with Rappler, defend press freedom in Philippines
EDITORIAL: By the Rappler team
We will continue bringing you the news, holding the powerful to account for their actions and decisions, calling attention to...
Rappler ordered to shut down by Philippines government, says Ressa
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa says that the Philippine government has ordered her news organisation Rappler to shut...
PNG statesman Sir Peter Barter a strong supporter of the free...
OBITUARY: A personal reflection by Scott Waide in Lae
Australian-born former PNG cabinet minister and Madang businessman Sir Sir Peter Leslie Charles Barter, 82 --...
IFJ calls on Canberra to act against Assange extradition order to...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Following the United Kingdom’s decision to extradite Julian Assange to face trial in the United States, the International Federation of Journalists’...
UK government orders extradition of Julian Assange to US, but that...
ANALYSIS: By Holly Cullen, The University of Western Australia and Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle
Last week on June 17 2022, UK Home Secretary Priti...
Assange extradition order a ‘dangerous assault on international journalism’, says MEAA
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The UK government’s decision to uphold the application by the US Department of Justice to extradite Australian publisher Julian Assange imperils...
Al Jazeera obtains image of bullet that killed its journalist –...
The bullet that killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Ala Jazeera investigation
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
An investigation by Al Jazeera has obtained an image of...
Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers
COMMENTARY: By David Robie
Timor-Leste, the youngest independent nation and the most fledgling press in the Asia-Pacific, has finally shown how it’s done -- with...
RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned a media blackout imposed on events during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s 10-day tour of...
Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation
RNZ Pacific
The Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) has urged its members to boycott a media conference for a visiting Chinese delegation in protest...
Reflections on Shireen Abu Akleh: Two assassinations, four funerals and no...
COMMENTARY: By Khaled Farraj
This is not a lament for Shireen, nor is it a political article. It is not a press report, nor is...
Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t...
The global response to the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Al Jazeera
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
Nothing justifies the...