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News Corp Scandal 'Brings Ethics Home for Pacific'
Friday, 22 July 2011, 12:49 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Pacific journalists following the global coverage over the News Corporation phone-hacking scandal are putting pressures on newsroom practice around ethics and conduct codes for journalists, says a regional media monitoring body, Pacific Freedom Forum. More >>
Papua New Guinea Radio- New Multimedia Feature Is Now Online
Thursday, 21 July 2011, 12:43 pm | Pacific Media Watch
A new multi-media feature about Papua New Guinea Radio in 2011 has been released by the Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.com. The new feature includes reviews of major Papua New Guinea radio websites, updates on the new radio licensing ... More >>
Former Fiji Army Colonel Denies He Is Guilty Of Torture
Thursday, 21 July 2011, 12:06 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Former Fijian army colonel Tevita Mara says he would go back to Fiji if he could, but believes he would be detained and tortured. Colonel Mara, who has been highly critical of the Fijian government since he fled earlier this year, has arrived in ... More >>
Democracy Group Files Police Complaint against Mara
Thursday, 21 July 2011, 12:05 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The New Zealand-based Coalition for Democracy in Fiji has filed a criminal complaint with the police against former Lieutenant-Colonel Ratu Tevita Mara for his alleged role in the torture of hundreds of Fiji citizens. More >>
Fiji: Nation needs support for peaceful return to democracy
Monday, 18 July 2011, 11:55 am | Pacific Media Watch
Two former Fiji academics have called for a better understanding of Fiji politics, saying no efforts should be spared in working towards a smooth, orderly and swift transition to democracy in Fiji. More >>
IFJ Backs Call For Higher Standards for Journalists
Monday, 18 July 2011, 11:54 am | Pacific Media Watch
The International Federation of Journalists joins with affiliate the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in calling for better professional standards among Indonesia’s press corps, in order to combat ongoing issues of corruption in the ... More >>
Papua Journalist Gets AJI Award
Monday, 11 July 2011, 3:50 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) gave the SK Trimurti award to a radio journalist on Friday for her service to Papua's remote Yahukimo regency. More >>
Freedom of Expression under Threat,HKJA Annual Report States
Friday, 8 July 2011, 5:14 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The period from July 2010 to June 2011 has not been conducive to freedom of expression in Hong Kong. This is the main finding of the Hong Kong Journalists Association's annual report for 2011, entitled "Two Systems Compromised: Free Expression Under ... More >>
Australian Editor of Myanmar Times Convicted, Release
Friday, 8 July 2011, 3:45 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Ross Dunkley, founder and editor of the Myanmar Times newspaper, was convicted of assault and set free for time already spent in detention by a Burmese court on Thursday. More >>
Media must ‘help Fiji to heal’, says USP economist
Monday, 4 July 2011, 3:48 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The news media has an important role to play in uniting a fractured nation such as Fiji, says economist and academic Dr Biman Prasad. “Media needs to become a force for unity – not disunity as we have sometimes seen in the past,” he said, speaking ... More >>
Fiji/Tonga: Letter on the Minerva Reef issue
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 4:55 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Tonga has broken their silence and has replied to Fiji on the issue of Minerva. The rescue of Col. David Mara from Fiji water first of all demonstrated to Fiji that Tonga will use force to protect its sovereignty over Minerva aka Teleki Tonga & Teleki ... More >>
Fiji: Credibility of anti-regime questioned
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 3:48 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Ukrainian Club in the New South Wales city of Queanbeyan – adjacent to Canberra – was the unlikely setting this weekend for the launch of what was being billed by its organisers as the most serious attempt thus far to dislodge the Bainimarama ... More >>
New Pacific Media Group Launched In Samoa
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:31 am | Pacific Media Watch
Representatives of Pacific media networks have agreed to cooperate as a regional alliance on media freedom and other issues of common concern at a meeting in Apia, Samoa, coinciding with World Press Freedom Day 2011. More >>
Savea Claims PINA Losing 'Critical Voice' On Media Freedom
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
One of the champions of Pacific press freedom, Savea Sano Malifa, has accused a rival organisation of “manipulation”and losing its “critical voice” as media groups meet in Samoa this week to discuss press freedom and regionalism. More >>
Shooting The Messenger, Undermining Democracy
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 9:49 am | Pacific Media Watch
BANGKOK (Southeast Asian Press Alliance/Pacific Media Watch): Of all the attacks against media and its practitioners, none is more heinous than the slaying of journalists - and getting away with murder. More >>
PNG: Panguna mine interview trip on Bougainville
Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 11:02 am | Pacific Media Watch
PANGUNA, Bougainville (Mekamui News/Pacific Media Watch): On the April 13, a cloudy and wet day, we took a chance to visit Panguna mine. More >>
Solomons PM Distances Govt From Leaked 'Intelligence' Report
Friday, 15 April 2011, 12:06 pm | Pacific Media Watch
HONIARA: Solomon Islands Prime Minister Danny Philip says no action has been taken against his former press secretary, Alfred Sasako, over the controversial leaked “secret intelligence report”. More >>
Academics Critical of Govt Decision To Axe TVNZ7
Friday, 15 April 2011, 12:02 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND: Sixty one media academics have put their signatures to an open letter to the New Zealand government criticising its decision to axe TVNZ7. More >>
More 'Blow Your Mind' Wikileaks Material To Come, says Hagar
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 9:37 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): WikiLeaks has only released one or two percent of the US embassy cables that made worldwide news last year - and the rest of them “will blow your mind”, says New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager. More >>
News Groups Accuse Fiji Media Watch Of Campaign Against Them
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 9:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND ( Pacific Media Watch ): Mainstream media in Fiji has hit out at the Fiji Media Watch organisation, accusing it of unprofessional and “generalised statements”. More >>
