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Insight Into Rainbow Warrior's Women
Saturday, 11 March 2006, 11:04 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Howick & Pakuranga Times/Pacific Media Watch): Artist Claudia Pond-Eyley is completing a new television documentary about the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, bombed by French secret agents in 1985. More >>
Suspicion Inhibits Journalists In New Zealand
Monday, 6 March 2006, 9:13 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (IFJ-Asia/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about reports that newspaper employers in New Zealand have tried to undermine the working rights of journalists by illegally listening in on ... More >>
Media Clampdown Amid Political Chaos, Philippines
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:48 am | Pacific Media Watch
MANILA (IFJ-Asia/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the clampdown of press freedom in the Philippines following the declaration on February 24 of a state of emergency called by President Gloria Macapagal ... More >>
Aust.: Planned Phone Tap Laws Threaten Press
Monday, 20 February 2006, 5:10 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (MEAA/Pacific Media Watch): If federal government plans to give its security agencies new phone-tapping powers are accepted, journalists must assume that their conversations with sources will be intercepted, says Australia's media union. More >>
Who Makes The News? Women as Victims in Fiji Media
Monday, 20 February 2006, 5:07 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Media Watch/femLINKPACIFIC/Pacific Media Watch): Only 20 percent of people featuring in Fiji newspapers and news broadcasts are women and too often women are portrayed as a "victim stereotype", says a new research report compiled ... More >>
Where US Imprisons Journalists: Iraq, Guantanamo
Friday, 17 February 2006, 2:11 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PARIS (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) called on the United States government to free two journalists it said were being unjustly held at a US prison in Iraq, and at the US military base in Guantanamo, ... More >>
Indonesia: Editor of Peta Named Cartoon Suspect
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:25 pm | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (JP Online/Pacific Media Watch): The chief editor of Peta tabloid, Imam Tri Karso Hadi, was named a suspect Thursday by Bekasi Police for reprinting a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad. More >>
Pacific Seminar For Environmental Journalism
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:22 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (USP Journalism/Pacific Media Watch): The University of the South Pacific journalism programme and the Fiji Media Council will co-host a daylong seminar on the environment for journalists tomorrow (Wed, Feb 15). More >>
Cook Island Media Adds TV, Radio Stations
Friday, 10 February 2006, 12:43 am | Pacific Media Watch
AVARUA, Rarotonga (Avaiki/Pacific Media Watch): One of the world¹s tiniest media markets is about to become even more competitive. More >>
Fiji Newspaper Under Fire For Publishing Cartoons
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 3:16 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (IFEX/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's Daily Post newspaper today issued a statement justifying its publication of controversial cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad, the cause of riots and protests overseas. More >>
Te Waha Nui Wins Ossie Award For Best Newspaper
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 10:16 am | Pacific Media Watch
SURFER'S PARADISE (JEA/APN/Pacific Media Watch): Te Waha Nui, New Zealand¹s Auckland University of Technology journalism newspaper, has won this year¹s Ossie Award for best student publication (any medium) in Australia, NZ and the Pacific the paper¹s ... More >>
Former Editor Speaks Out On Resignation
Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 9:22 am | Pacific Media Watch
AVARUA, Rarotonga (Avaiki Nius/Pacific Media Watch): The former editor of the Cook Islands News says the daily newspaper has failed to develop any depth with its editorial staff. More >>
Fiji: Student Journalists Win
Friday, 18 November 2005, 4:58 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Times Online/Pacific Media Watch): Journalism students at the University of the South Pacific took centre stage at their annual awards last Friday night. More >>
Rarotonga: PM's Office Says Report 'Irresponsible'
Friday, 18 November 2005, 4:56 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AVARUA, Rarotonga (Avaiki Blogspot/Pacific Media Watch): Adviser Trevor Pitt suggests there is an innocent explanation for the official car of the Cook Islands prime minister being seen at the home of a former chief-of-staff currently serving prison time on ... More >>
Bougainville: Fiji 'Mercenaries' Spark Controversy
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 9:19 am | Pacific Media Watch
Eight years have passed since the Papua New Guinea military launched an attack on its own government over the so-called "Sandline" mercenaries affair. Well, it now appears that mercenaries have returned to the country, with revelations up to nine ... More >>
PNG: Ramu Nickel Mine Project Controversy Papers
Monday, 14 November 2005, 10:08 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (Asia Pacific Network/Pacific Media Watch): A bitter information struggle over the future of the controversial Ramu nickel mine project on Papua New Guinea's Madang province has drawn the attention of regional environmental groups. More >>
Cook Is: CITV Manager Says Power Threat Withdrawn
Monday, 14 November 2005, 10:06 am | Pacific Media Watch
AVARUA, Rarotonga (Avaiki Nius Agency/Pacific Media Watch): A threat to cut off power to one of several television transmitters around the capital of this Pacific nation has been withdrawn, says a Cook Islands Television manager. More >>
'Ignored' West Papua Aids Pandemic
Friday, 11 November 2005, 2:07 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Te Waha Nui Online/Pacific Media Watch): Health workers and human rights activists are upset that the HIV/AIDS pandemic in West Papua was virtually ignored at a symposium in Auckland last month. More >>
Latest PJR Highlights 'Plagiarism And Fabulism'
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 10:42 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (AUT Journalism/Pacific Media Watch): A New Zealand media educator has called for an industry debate and action on the problems of plagiarism and fabulism in an article in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review. More >>
Filmmaker Charged for Talking with Prisoner
Monday, 7 November 2005, 10:01 am | Pacific Media Watch
Australia's media union has called on the Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director General of the state's Corrective Services Department to drop the charges levelled at highly respected journalist and filmmaker Anne Delaney. More >>
