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PNG Fm Reporter Threatened During Mutiny - Advocacy Group
Thursday, 2 February 2012, 12:07 pm | Pacific Media Watch
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands ( Pacific Freedom Forum / Pacific Media Watch ): Journalists in Papua New Guinea must be able to report the ongoing political tensions in the country without fear or intimidation, says a Pacific media advocacy group, the Pacific ... More >>
'It's The Best Accommodation In Town'
Monday, 30 January 2012, 1:19 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch ): University of the South Pacific's journalism head Dr Marc Edge, of the School of Language, Arts and Media, has just moved in to the new Suva Point Apartments he now calls home - and he couldn't be ... More >>
Fiji Signals It May Switch Radio Australia Back On
Monday, 30 January 2012, 1:06 pm | Pacific Media Watch
MELBOURNE ( Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch ): Fiji's coup installed military government has signalled it is looking at allowing Radio Australia to broadcast inside the country again. More >>
PNG Post-Courier editorial: Failed Mutiny
Monday, 30 January 2012, 1:02 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY ( PNG Post-Courier / Pacific Media Watch ): Papua New Guineans woke up, some in shock, some in fear and others filled with anxiety, from the news of the failed mutiny [26 January 2012] in the PNG Defence Force. As news of the mutiny ... More >>
Pacific Journalism Review Submissions
Friday, 27 January 2012, 11:15 am | Pacific Media Watch
Articles are sought for publication in the May 2012 edition of Pacific Journalism Review . This themed edition will be linked to the September 2011 “Back to the source” Investigative Journalism conference organised and hosted by the Australian ... More >>
Bainimarama "Is Good For Fiji" Says AG
Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 11:23 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( FijiVillage.com / Pacific Media Watch ): Acting Prime Minister and the Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has told an Australian media outlet that the Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, should run for prime minister in the 2014 elections ... More >>
Talks And Rules Matter
Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 11:18 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch ): I have a five-year-old nephew and a niece who are a year apart. It is interesting that the two used to do things together but as the girl started school, she came back with some habits such as teasing her ... More >>
Fiji: A Bottle Half-Empty Or Half-Full?
Monday, 16 January 2012, 1:10 pm | Pacific Media Watch
WASHINGTON ( Al Jazeera / Pacific Media Watch ): Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, famously condemned Fiji's first military coup, saying: "Today's events are particularly deplorable as the first military coup against an elected government in the South ... More >>
Kevin Rudd Rejects Fiji's Ersatz Reform
Monday, 16 January 2012, 12:53 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Australia will need to see real change in Fiji before it considers lifting sanctions on those responsible for the 2006 coup and senior interim government appointees, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday. Rudd told Radio Australia that while ... More >>
Film Says Journalists 'Are Colourless And Blinded By Power'
Monday, 16 January 2012, 10:14 am | Pacific Media Watch
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/global-journalists-are-colourless-and-blinded-power-says-new-french-film-7795 More >>
Fiji-Based News Website Quotes Freedom Call By Ousted Prime
Monday, 16 January 2012, 9:49 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch ): A Fiji-based news website has published comments by former Fiji leader Laisenia Qarase calling for more freedoms in the country. More >>
PJR Launches New Pacific Media Research Website At AUT
Monday, 19 December 2011, 12:35 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND ( Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch ): Pacific Journalism Review today launched a new website archiving regional media research dating back almost two decades. It is a digitally enhanced site taking over from the earlier site established by ... More >>
ACTU President Ged Kearney Denies Fiji's Claim About Motives
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 9:49 am | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY ( Radio Australia Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch ): One of the leaders of the Australian and NZ union delegation deported from Fiji, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Ged Kearney, says Fiji's interim Attorney-General ... More >>
Journalists 'Under Ethics Pressure'
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 10:21 am | Pacific Media Watch
There is an abundance of "idealistic" people keen to enter journalism but the culture of newsrooms puts them under great ethical pressures, media academics have suggested. While journalism students are generally taught ethics, they fear losing their jobs ... More >>
Pasima Plans Regional Web-Based Journalism Training
Monday, 12 December 2011, 12:05 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND ( Pasifika Media Association / Pacific Media Watch ): A web-based training programme for Pacific media has been commissioned by the Pasifika Media Association (PasiMA). This follows a three-day board meeting in Auckland this week where the ... More >>
CFL Guilty Of Misleading The Public
Monday, 12 December 2011, 10:29 am | Pacific Media Watch
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/region-pasima-plans-regional-web-based-investigative-journalism-training-7771 More >>
NGO Slams Fiji's Rights Record
Monday, 12 December 2011, 10:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
NEW YORK ( Australia Network News / Pacific Media Watch ): Another international non-government organisation has sent a letter to Fiji's interim prime minister condemning his regime's human rights record. More >>
Fiji: End Rights Abuses
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 9:51 am | Pacific Media Watch
NEW YORK ( Human Rights Watch / Pacific Media Watch ): Fiji’s military backed government should end attacks on critics and lift censorship, Human Rights Watch said today in a joint letter with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), International ... More >>
USP, Japan Connect With Space Station
Monday, 5 December 2011, 12:53 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( Indian Weekender / Pacific Media Watch ): In a historic development, the University of the South Pacific and Japan—through the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and JICA and USPNET—had a live interview with Japanese astronaut Dr Satoshi Furukawa. More >>
Academic Condemns Lack Of Nz Coverage Of West Papua Crisis
Monday, 5 December 2011, 10:34 am | Pacific Media Watch
A media academic specialising in Asia-Pacific affairs condemned New Zealand news coverage on West Papua and other Melanesian issues at a journalism education conference in Adelaide this week. Professor David Robie, director of AUT University’s Pacific ... More >>
