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Research Affirms Company Domination
Monday, 21 March 2011, 9:50 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): Results from the recent Tebbutt Media Survey have revealed that Communications Fiji Limited has a staggering 88.5 percent of the country tuned in to any one of their five radio stations - FM96, Viti FM, ... More >>
Safety Resources For Journalists Travelling Abroad
Thursday, 17 March 2011, 9:12 am | Pacific Media Watch
PARIS (Reporters sans frontières/Pacific Media Watch): The intensity of the violence against foreign journalists in Egypt in early February served as a reminder that media personnel often become targets when they are covering unrest. To help protect ... More >>
Fiji Times Tops Readership Figures
Thursday, 17 March 2011, 9:09 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Times is the most widely read newspaper in the country every weekday, according to the latest recognised independent research on Fiji's media industry. More >>
Pac. Islands Weather Japan Tsunami - Their Own Earthquakes
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 2:12 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Pacific nations and territories were all issued with a tsunami warning over the weekend. More >>
Fiji Human Rights Watchdog Says No Complaints Of Abuse
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 9:43 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Human Rights Commission says it has not received any recent complaints of alleged abuse, detainment or intimidation by the disciplinary forces. More >>
Media Told To Report Facts About Bougainville
Monday, 14 March 2011, 1:30 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (The National/Pacific Media Watch): Autonomous Bougainville Government's Vice-President Patrick Nisira has called on the media to take extra care when writing about issues that affect the lives and welfare of the Panguna people. More >>
Choiseul Province Prepares For Premiers Conference
Monday, 14 March 2011, 1:24 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Choiseul Province is beginning preparations to host this year’s Premiers Conference at the Provincial Headquarter of Taro Island. More >>
Indonesia Could Lift Media Restrictions In Papua
Monday, 14 March 2011, 1:10 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Indonesian government says it will consider lifting restrictions banning journalists from the troubled province of Papua. More >>
Pacific Islands Dodge Tsunami Destruction
Monday, 14 March 2011, 10:06 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Blogcritics/Pacific Media Watch): With a mixture of realism and optimism, Rev. Baranite Kirata, an islander and member of The World Council of Churches, explained that "it is now too late to do something for Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands; ... More >>
Killer Tsunami Spares South Pacific
Monday, 14 March 2011, 10:05 am | Pacific Media Watch
Video: South Pacific eases tsunami alerts after killer wave strikes Japan Many South Pacific countries and territories have lifted tsunami warnings after Japan's catastrophic 8.9 magnitude earthquake, but Tahiti ordered many residents to stay ashore. More >>
Mining Company Denies Spill Allegations In PNG
Monday, 14 March 2011, 10:03 am | Pacific Media Watch
MELBOURNE: (Radio Australia Pacific Beat/Pacific Media Watch): Allied Gold is denying reports that waste from its Simberi mine is killing marine life in Papua New Guinea. More >>
Trio Acquitted For Murder Of Journalist In Maluku
Friday, 11 March 2011, 4:11 pm | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA: (Jakarta Globe/Pacific Media Watch): Three men were acquitted on Wednesday of the murder of a TV journalist in the Indonesian island province of Maluku, prompting protests from media observers. More >>
Pacific Media Freedom Petition
Friday, 11 March 2011, 9:27 am | Pacific Media Watch
On 4 March 2011, the publisher of the Vanuatu Daily Post was attacked in his office by a government minister, Harry Iauko, and a gang of thugs who severely assaulted the publisher in retaliation for a story that had been printed in the Post. Minister ... More >>
Henry Targets CInews For Possible 'Contempt Of Parliament'
Friday, 11 March 2011, 9:24 am | Pacific Media Watch
RAROTONGA: ( Cook Islands News / Pacific Media Watch ): A little over two weeks into his new job as Speaker of Parliament and Sir Geoffrey Henry seems to have taken exception to reportage by the country’s daily newspaper Cook Islands News . More >>
Attacked Publisher Speaks Out To PMW - PM Still Silent
Friday, 11 March 2011, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Almost a week after a brutal attack on a newspaper publisher in Vanuatu, allegedly involving a cabinet minister, nothing has been done and no comment has been issued from the office of Prime Minister Sato Kilman. More >>
Vanuatu Publisher Rejects Biased Reporting Claim
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 9:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT VILA (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): A Vanuatu newspaper publisher, who alleges a cabinet minister led an assault on him, has criticised a regional media body which suggested the attack may have been prompted by biased reporting, reports ... More >>
Stabbed Journalist Reported On Police Gang Rape Scandal
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAYAPURA (Joyo/Agence France-Presse//Pacific Media Watch): An Indonesian journalist who was treated in hospital last Thursday after being stabbed in the stomach and chest had covered a police sex scandal, police and activists said. More >>
Pina Speaks Out Over Assault On Publisher
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 9:17 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) has called on everyone in Vanuatu, including leaders, to use the law rather than resort to physical violence to solve problems. More >>
Timor-Leste Encouraged To Create Future Press Council
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 9:14 am | Pacific Media Watch
DILI (Timor-Leste Government/ETAN/Pacific Media Watch): The government of Timor-Leste, through the Secretariat of State of the Council of Ministers (Portuguese acronym SECM), has encouraged the Timor-Leste press to participate in a comparative study ... More >>
Daily Post Publisher Fears Inaction After Alleged Assault
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 10:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT VILA (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): A Vanuatu newspaper publisher says he is not confident action will be taken against the government minister he has accused of leading an assault on him last Friday, Radio New Zealand International ... More >>
