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Fiji Censors, Bloggers And Free Expression
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 10:10 am | Pacific Media Watch
Eight days ago, Café Pacific made a New Year honours award to the University of the South Pacific's Wansolwara in the "independent newspaper" category. More >>
New Indonesian Laws A Threat To Free Press
Monday, 11 January 2010, 11:56 am | Pacific Media Watch
Though Indonesia was a leader among fellow Asean member nation in press freedom in 2009 and violence against journalists here has declined in recent years, media activists warned that the country should remain on guard. More >>
Military Restrictions On Kachin-Language Newspaper
Monday, 11 January 2010, 10:27 am | Pacific Media Watch
NEW DELHI ( Mizzima News/Pacific Media Watch ): Members of the Burmese Army will be editing the 2010 edition of the JingHpaw Mungdaw Nsen newspaper published annually in the ethnic Kachin language. More >>
Femlink Welcomes Renewal Of Community Radio
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 11:36 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Femlink Pacific/Pacific Media Watch): Femlinkpacific, the operators of the mobile "suitcase" radio station 89.2FM today welcomed the news that the Telecommunication Authority of Fiji has renewed the women's NGO community radio licence until December ... More >>
NZ PM Wants Dialogue
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 1:43 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( Fiji Broadcasting Corporation/Pacific Media Watch ): New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has told NZ news media that he is seeking renewed engagement with the Fiji government. More >>
Adapting To Climate Change In The Pacific
Monday, 14 December 2009, 1:54 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The impact of climate change in all its forms and manifestations is more lucidly apparent in this part of the world than anywhere else. Low-lying atolls like Tuvalu, Kiribati and Tokelau can only watch as rising sea levels threaten to inundate their ... More >>
Times Welcomes Media Decree Dialogue
Monday, 14 December 2009, 1:51 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Fiji Times Online/Pacific Media Watch ): Though he has publicly confirmed that a proposed decree to control media in Fiji is in its final stages, Communications Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum would not be drawn on whether this would replace the Public Emergency ... More >>
Fiji Government To Control Irresponsible Reporting
Monday, 14 December 2009, 1:49 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Fiji government is in the process of finalising a piece of legislation which it says will effectively control irresponsible reporting by the country’s media. More >>
One [Fiji] Blog Closes, Another Opens
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 1:19 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Real Fiji News is a pro-government site -- the only one since IG closed earlier, as far as I know -- and many of its posts have been to correct misinformation published in one or another of the numerous anti-government blogs. More >>
Fiji Censorship & Cross-Cultural Reporting
Friday, 15 May 2009, 10:42 am | Pacific Media Watch
Censorship and the assault on human rights and freedom of expression in Fiji are featured in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review. The AUT Pacific Media Centre-based publication, New Zealand's only peer-reviewed international media research ... More >>
FIJI: Media Centre condemns 'ruthless censorship'
Monday, 13 April 2009, 8:38 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (PMC Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Media Centre, a regional development communication research and publication resource, has condemned the Fiji regime's 'ruthless censorship' of news organisations and called for an end to intimidation. More >>
AUT Launches New Pasifika Diploma In Journalism
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 4:04 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (AUT/Pacific Media Watch): Support for Pasifika, Maori and diversity media education will be given a big boost with the launch of a new dedicated journalism programme at AUT University. The one-year Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism ... More >>
Niu FM Denies Bid For Political Influence
Friday, 14 March 2008, 11:47 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Editorial change at New Zealand's newest Pacific news service is not an attempt to exert crucial influence on this year's general election, says Niu FM chief executive Sina Moore. More >>
Pesi Fonua To Open PIMA 2007 Media Conference
Thursday, 11 October 2007, 9:20 am | Pacific Media Watch
PIMA chairman John Utanga says Fonua, as a working journalist in one of the region's hotspots, has been instrumental in helping to cover the serious social and political issues in his homeland of Tonga. More >>
Alarm Bells
Saturday, 15 September 2007, 2:40 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (The National Online/Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea's Defence Minister Bob Dadae said yesterday the Moti inquiry report would remain gagged as it was a controversial report, despite the decision of the National Court dismissing ... More >>
Family Appeals To France Over Missing Journalist
Friday, 14 September 2007, 12:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
In 2004, the Couraud family lodged a murder complaint against unknown persons after a former spy working for the then president, Gaston Flosse, claimed that Jean-Pascal Couraud had been kidnapped and drowned off Tahiti. More >>
TV3 Wins Injunction Against Sky
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (NZ Herald Online/Pacific Media Watch): MediaWorks, owner of New Zealand's TV3, has won an interim injunction against Sky's coverage of the Rugby World Cup. More >>
PNG Govt Urged To Deal With Guns Issue
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 12:11 am | Pacific Media Watch
The use of guns for illegal purposes is still prevalent in Papua New Guinea and the new government has been called on to deal with this issue. More >>
Authorities Probe Samoan Newspaper Fire
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:57 am | Pacific Media Watch
The editor of a Samoan newspaper gutted in a fire on the weekend, says the cause of the fire is still being investigated. More >>
