Tag: World Press Freedom Day
Journalists talk press freedom – ‘be afraid, but do the...
In this World Press Freedom Day video, Filipino journalists Ed Lingao, Jason Gutierrez, Inday Espina-Varona, Ezra Acayan, and JC Gotinga speak about facing threats...
Student journalists speak up – not all glamour but risky in...
By Laiseana Nasiga in Suva
Final-year student journalists at the University of the South Pacific took centre stage at this year’s World Press Freedom Day...
Journalists work ‘in fear’ in PNG, says media freedom advocate
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A senior journalist in Papua New Guinea says there is no media freedom in the country and journalists are often working...
Free media week killings underscore crimes of impunity against journalists
The media freedom monitoring group Reporters Without Borders details how it has trained journalists in Afghanistan to be aware of double suicide bomb attacks....
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...
Activists, media freedom advocates plan ‘global action’ for West Papua
Media freedom advocates and human rights activists are planning a "global action" for West Papua with demonstrations marking UNESCO world press freedom day events...
RSF calls on Jokowi to honour pledge to let journalists work...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Indonesian President Joko Widodo to keep his election promise to allow local and international journalists to operate...
Press freedom fact-finding mission to West Papua faces challenges
By Tara Nissl in Jakarta
Eight journalists from eight Indonesian media outlets traveled to West Papua earlier this month to investigate media freedom and the...
Dan McGarry: The future of media freedom – we can’t take...
By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post
Media freedom is everyone’s freedom. We can’t take it for granted.
My education in the challenges...
Indonesia faces chance to prove it is more ‘journalist-friendly’ in 2017
By Colette Davidson
When journalist and media activist Victor Mambor wants information from inside Papua, Indonesia, he knows how to get it -- he has...
Komnas HAM to probe shutdown of World Press Day event in...
A trailer of the controversial documentary Pulau Buru Tanah Air Beta that tells the story of two political prisoners on Baru Island.
By Bambang Muryanto...
No media freedom in Fiji while decree still in place, says...
By Matilda Simmons in Suva
As long as the Media Decree is in place, Fiji cannot say it has press freedom, says opposition National Federation...
Shailendra Singh: How hypocritical leaders try to divide and rule media
Dr Shailendra Singh is head of journalism at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. This was his address to the World Press Freedom...
Tonga’s ‘transparency’ prime minister violates media freedom over questions
By Kalafi Moala in Nuku'alofa
The man who was once jailed for his stand for press freedom in the kingdom of Tonga has now breached...