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PINA Needs to Be a 'Watchdog' Not a 'Lapdog', Says PASIMA
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:16 am | Pacific Media Watch
RAROTONGA (Pasifika Media Association/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific region's association of independent media organisations, Pasifika Media Association (Pasima), views with deep concern the attempt this week by a proponent of government censorship ... More >>
Tonga: Pro-Democracy Publisher Favoured as Post-Ballot PM
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch
A former broadcaster and publisher is the most likely man to become Tonga’s new Prime Minister after a historic Parliamentary election. ‘Akilisi Pohiva is also a former democracy movement freedom campaigner, who became a Member of Parliament ... More >>
Samoa: Campbell Fires Back at PM's 'Schoolyard Behaviour'
Monday, 22 November 2010, 10:15 am | Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand journalist John Campbell has fired another volley in his war of words with Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi – accusing him of “schoolyard behaviour". In the latest letter addressed to the Campbell Live show’s producer, ... More >>
Fiji: Acting PM's Resignation and Water Boss 'Deportation'
Monday, 22 November 2010, 10:11 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND ( Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch ): A dispute over Fiji Water between politicians has led to a resignation, a deportation and plenty of speculation among the Pacific country’s media outlets. On Wednesday, Fiji Live broke the story that ... More >>
Media Plays Critical Role in Fiji
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 9:40 am | Pacific Media Watch
The Fiji Attorney-General and Minister of Communications has stressed media foreign ownership has been restricted in the country as the media plays a critical role and needs a complete sense of stakeholder ship in the country. More >>
TI Fiji: Corruption Declined After Military Coup
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:10 am | Pacific Media Watch
The director of the organisation’s Fiji arm, Juris Gulbis, told media people’s perception of corruption had changed since the interim government established the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption. More >>
Fiji Times Denied Extension To Find Local Buyer
Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 9:58 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Radio Australia/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's interim government has refused a request by the country's oldest daily newspaper, the Fiji Times, for a deadline to sell the paper to be extended. More >>
Bringing Fiji Back From The Cold
Monday, 30 August 2010, 11:02 am | Pacific Media Watch
MELBOURNE (Business Standard/Pacific Media Watch): India must impress on New Zealand and Australia the need to engage with Fiji and persuade them to help Fiji implement a racially neutral polity. More >>
Fiji Times Has One More Month To Sell
Monday, 30 August 2010, 10:57 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation/Pacific Media Watch): The deadline for expressions of interest in the sale of the Fiji Times has closed, but the newspaper has about one more month to become 90 percent locally owned. More >>
Fiji Media Groups Must Face Reality
Monday, 30 August 2010, 10:41 am | Pacific Media Watch
NUKU'ALOFA (Pacific Media Watch): Fiji news organisations have to face reality and make ethical and professional decisions in a “dramatically changed” media landscape, a regional workshop in Tonga on building a vibrant Pacific media has been told. More >>
Fiji Amends 2010 Media Decree
Sunday, 29 August 2010, 4:07 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation/Pacific Media Watch): Amendments have been made to Fiji’s Media Decree to exempt a number of persons, and organisations from various provisions of the decree. More >>
Pacific Media Network To Celebrate Birthday Double
Sunday, 29 August 2010, 4:04 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Network/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific Media Network will tomorrow host a birthday event celebrating 17 years of broadcasting for Radio 531pi and 8 years for NiuFM. More >>
Taking Multicultural New Zealand Into The Newsroom
Sunday, 29 August 2010, 3:54 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (AUT University/Pacific Media Watch): AUT University’s new Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism, which aims to address the shortage of Pasifika journalists in New Zealand, is gearing up for its first batch of students in 2011. More >>
News Ltd Told To Sell Up In Fiji
Sunday, 29 August 2010, 3:50 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (Sydney Morning Herald/AAP/Pacific Media Watch): News Ltd has one month to sell or close its local paper in Fiji, a spokeswoman for the country's interim government says. More >>
Fiji Talks Important To Remain Engaged
Friday, 27 August 2010, 3:11 pm | Pacific Media Watch
WELLINGTON (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): NZ’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully says his latest discussions with his Fiji counterpart are an important part of NZ staying engaged with Fiji’s interim regime, reports Radio NZ International. More >>
Time's Up For Sale Of Fiji Paper
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 6:54 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The deadline for News Ltd to sell or close its local newspaper in Fiji has been reached. Fiji's self-appointed PM Frank Bainimarama has been tightening controls on the media since he overthrew the elected government in a bloodless coup in 2006. More >>
Survival Of Fiji Times Now On A Knife-Edge
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 11:52 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): Military dictatorship in Fiji has thrown the survival of the South Pacific’s longest running English-language daily newspaper in jeopardy. More >>
Journalists Boycott Papua Police News
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 2:14 pm | Pacific Media Watch
JAYAPURA (The Jakarta Post/Pacific Media Watch): Scores of journalists in Jayapura have agreed to boycott any news related to the Papua police in protest against the absence of investigation into the death of a Merauke journalist. More >>
Fiji Accuses News Ltd Of 'Hostile Campaign'
Tuesday, 24 August 2010, 4:43 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fijilive.com/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji government has accused Australian media giant News Limited of continuing a “hostile media campaign against Fiji”. More >>
Aust Cop More Flack From Fiji
Tuesday, 24 August 2010, 4:31 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Sydney Morning Herald/AAP/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji has made some ground in restoring their sacked judiciary, but Australia and New Zealand have slowed the process down, Fiji's Chief Justice Anthony Gates says. More >>
