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Federal Government Urged To Act On Crisis Facing Journalism
Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 2:50 pm | Pacific Media Watch
MELBOURNE ( Public Interest Journalism Foundation / Pacific Media Watch ): The Public Interest Journalism Foundation has called on the Federal government to introduce tax deductibility for philanthropic and other donations to non-profit media groups ... More >>
Criminal Libel Still A Threat In Britain's Old Colonies
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 12:01 pm | Pacific Media Watch
OPINION: Between the Lines: Criminal Libel Still A Threat In Britain's Old Colonies - Including Samoa More >>
Pacific Media Centre newsletter – No 22, Winter 2012
Monday, 9 July 2012, 11:14 am | Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Centre www.pmc.aut.ac.nz The latest Pacific Media Centre newsletter – No 22, Winter 2012 (ISSN 1175-0472): Read about the PMC’s news and monitoring services around the Pacific region, Henry Yamo’s mobile phone research and the ... More >>
AWPA Wins West Papua Advocacy Team Award
Monday, 9 July 2012, 11:09 am | Pacific Media Watch
AWPA Wins West Papua Advocacy Team Award http://www.etan.org/issues/wpapua/2012/1207wpap.htm#AWPA More >>
Caretaker PM Wins Seat in PNG Elections
Sunday, 8 July 2012, 2:00 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea's caretaker Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has been declared the first winner in the country's national elections. More >>
Media7 Signs Off With Focus On Fairfax And News Ltd Upheaval
Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 2:58 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Media7 Signs Off With Focus On Fairfax And News Ltd Upheavals http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/nz-media7-signs-focus-fairfax-and-news-ltd-upheavals-8008 More >>
Pacific Journalism Study Author Calls for More Collaboration
Monday, 2 July 2012, 1:27 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Research evaluating the general state of investigative journalism in seven Pacific Island countries proposes collaboration between media, civil society organisations, academia, and other social institutes to help strengthen capacity. More >>
Kiribati Independent Shut Down Indefinitely
Monday, 25 June 2012, 3:46 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Kiribati Independent newspaper has been closed indefinitely from today, the publishers and staff announced. The Auckland-based Kiribati Independent website, which will continue normally, said in a statement on the fate of the Tarawa-based print edition: ... More >>
Govt Indifference To Institutionalised Abuse - Filmmaker
Friday, 22 June 2012, 3:15 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND ( Pacific Media Watch ): The director of a documentary about New Zealand’s psychiatric hospitals hopes his film will encourage the government to publically apologise to the victims of institutionalised abuse. More >>
Police Investigate Kiribati Independent
Friday, 22 June 2012, 2:41 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Police Investigate Kiribati Independent http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/kiribati-police-investigate-kiribati-independent-7990 TARAWA ( Kiribati Independent / Pacific Media Watch ): Police have questioned a Kiribati businessman who sells and distributes the Kiribati Independent newspaper. More >>
Newspaper Still Awaiting Publication Licence After 5 Months
Friday, 22 June 2012, 2:37 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Newspaper Still Awaiting Publication Licence After Five Months http://en.rsf.org/kiribati-newspaper-still-awaiting-19-06-2012,42814.html PARIS ( Reporters Without Borders / Pacific Media Watch ): Reporters Without Borders reiterates its request to Taberannang Timeon, the Kiribati Minister for Communications, ... More >>
Police 'Visit' Kiribati Independent Newspaper
Friday, 22 June 2012, 2:10 pm | Pacific Media Watch
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/kiribati-police-visit-defiant-kiribati-independent-newspaper-7987 More >>
German Engineers Plan To Flood The Rainforest Of Borneo
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 5:46 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Sarawak’s natives demand the pull out of German Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG from controversial dam project in Malaysia More >>
'We're Taking Steps To Follow Media Code,' Says Fiji TV
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 5:04 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( Fiji Sun / Pacific Media Watch ): Fiji Television says it is taking steps to overcome any practices contrary to the spirit and substance of the Media Code of Ethics and Practice in Fiji's Media Industry Development Decree. More >>
Filmmaker Highlights Indifference to Institutionalised Abuse
Sunday, 17 June 2012, 2:44 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The director of a documentary about New Zealand’s psychiatric hospitals hopes his film will encourage the government to publically apologise to the victims of institutionalised abuse. More >>
NZ Defence Force Stays Silent About Kopassus Officer
Sunday, 17 June 2012, 2:42 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The New Zealand Defence Force has refused to explain why a member of the Indonesian military’s notorious special forces unit, Kopassus, has been in the country to receive training. More >>
Fiji Labour Party Concerned About Media Landscape
Friday, 15 June 2012, 3:29 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Labour Party says it intends to raise alleged threats against Fiji Television with the Constitutional Commission, saying the process of taking Fiji back to democratic rule via elections ... More >>
Fiji TV Says Licence Being Renewed
Thursday, 14 June 2012, 4:01 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( Fiji Sun / Pacific Media Watch ): One of the country’s three free-to-air TV stations, Fiji Television, has been assured its licence will be renewed for another 12 years, its chairperson said yesterday. More >>
Papua New Guinea: Election Polling Begins In 10 Days
Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 2:48 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier Editorial / Pacific Media Watch): Polling begins in 10 days time on June 23 when the country’s 4.8 million voters will cast their votes, but there are already mixed signals coming from different parts of the country. More >>
Fairfax Confirms Editing Jobs Going To NZ
Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 2:47 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY ( Television NZ / Pacific Media Watch ): Troubled Australasian publisher Fairfax Media has confirmed it will go ahead and shift 66 subediting jobs on some of its Australian regional newspapers to New Zealand. More >>
