Tag: Press Freedom
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...
RSF calls for independent probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s West Bank...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Israel's fatal shooting of leading Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh as she covered clashes in the West Bank city of...
‘Intimidated’ Fiji worst place for Pacific journalists, says RSF’s freedom index
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has been ranked as the worst place in the Pacific region for journalists in the latest assessment by the global press freedom...
‘Be fearless – and amplify the voice of the people’, Prasad...
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Fiji has no place for a partisan media using press freedom as a blank cheque to be a mouthpiece of...
Fiji criticised for legal ‘criminalisation’ of journalism in big drop in...
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
Fiji’s use of legislation to criminalise the work of journalists who publicise “contrary to the public or national interest” is...
Journalist blames starving of PNG province news on EMTV dispute
By Prianka Srinivasan of ABC Pacific Beat
A senior Papua New Guinea journalist says an ongoing dispute between journalists and management at television broadcaster EMTV...
Media freedom slide in Australia ‘undermining’ ability to project democratic values
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A Melbourne-based Indonesian media academic has warned that declining media freedom in Australia is undermining the country's ability to project liberal...
Take action, don’t just offer words, MEAA tells Australia on media...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The next Australian government must recommit to press freedom by putting in place overdue reforms to support public interest journalism, says...
Nobel laureates Ramos-Horta, Ressa demand freedoms, fight for democracy
By Sofia Tomacruz in Manila
Nobel laureates José Ramos-Horta and Maria Ressa have urged Southeast Asians to keep working toward a better region where democratic...
RSF launches new #FreeAssange petition as UK’s Home Secretary considers extradition...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Following a district court order referring the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back to the United Kingdom's Home Office, Reporters...