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News Media Told Not To Interview 'Terrorist Groups
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 9:35 am | Pacific Media Watch
PARIS (Fijilive/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today at the warning not to carry interviews with "terrorists groups" which President Gloria Arroyo issued to the news media on 5 March, a few days after the army called ... More >>
Fiji Government Sells Majority Interest In Paper
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 8:49 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fijilive/Pacific Media Watch): Belmont Trading Ltd, new owner of the Fiji Daily Post, says there will be no job losses when it takes over over the newspaper. More >>
East Timorese Government harrasses local media
Monday, 7 March 2005, 8:12 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders said it was dismayed by East Timor government harassment of privately-owned daily newspaper /Suara Timor Lorosae/ aimed at bringing it into line, after it reported on famine deaths denied by Dili. More >>
Green MP: Better NZ Media Coverage Of Pacific
Monday, 28 February 2005, 6:01 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (/AUT/Pacific Media Watch/): Green Party foreign affairs spokesman Keith Locke has called for better South Pacific coverage by New Zealand news organisations, saying the media fails to adequately explain the region. More >>
Focus On Press Freedom Hot Spots
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 9:50 am | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (/CPU Online/Pacific Media Watch/): Representatives from across the Commonwealth today revealed press freedom was under threat from political and economic interference as well as self-censorship in areas spanning the Pacific, Africa and Asia. More >>
Fiji: Catching Them Young
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 9:48 am | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (/CPU Online/Pacific Media Watch/): /The Fiji Times/ has launched /Kaila!/, the country's first youth newspaper, and the children of Fiji are loving it. More >>
Helicopter Tsunami Journalism - What's Missing?
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 9:08 am | Pacific Media Watch
NEW YORK (Mediachannel/Pacific Media Watch): The lead story from Aceh in today's Washington Post is vivid: The subhead offers its vantage point "Above Indonesia. More >>
Serambi Back On Newsstands Again
Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 11:40 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (JP Online/Pacific Media Watch): After six days of absence due to the destruction of its office and disappearance of most of its employees, Aceh's only daily Serambi Indonesia hit the streets again on Sunday. More >>
Information Minister Replaced In Reshuffle
Friday, 17 December 2004, 9:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
WELLINGTON (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): Former Alliance Party publicist and academic Dr Ahmed Ali has been brought in from Fiji's Senate to take responsibility for the information, media and communications portfolio in a major cabinet reshuffle ... More >>
Australia Dismisses Pacific Media Criticism
Friday, 17 December 2004, 9:25 am | Pacific Media Watch
WELLINGTON (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Australian government is dismissing concerns from some Pacific media operators angry at the way AusAID is setting up its Pacific Media Communications Facility (PMCF) aid project. More >>
Media Survey Puts Training, Pay Under Spotlight
Friday, 17 December 2004, 9:24 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (AUT/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji journalists have less training and lack journalism qualifications compared with Papua New Guinea but are better paid, according to a new study on Pacific media. More >>
Fiji Student Tops USP Journalism Awards
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 9:01 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Final-year Fiji student Naziah Ali has collected four prizes at the annual University of the South Pacific student journalism awards. More >>
Mekim Nius To Be Launched At Jea Media Conference
Monday, 13 December 2004, 1:35 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (USP Book Centre/Pacific Media Watch): Mekim Nius, a new book about South Pacific media, is one of three books being launched at the Journalism Education Association (JEA) conference in Fiji next week. More >>
USP Journalism's First Pacific Media Studies Grad
Tuesday, 30 November 2004, 10:14 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): A leading Fiji Times columnist and women's advocate has become the first graduate of the University of the South Pacific's Postgraduate Diploma in Pacific Media Studies. More >>
Kaitani Denies Complicity In Fiji Coup
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 10:40 am | Pacific Media Watch
http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2004/November/11-23-05.htm http://www.fijitv.cm.fj More >>
Urwin Welcomes Media Merger
Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 9:09 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Forum Secretariat/Pacific Media Watch): Forum Secretary General, Greg Urwin, says the media is essential to the promotion of greater accountability and better governance in the region. More >>
Manila: Journalists To Protest Against Attacks
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 9:08 am | Pacific Media Watch
MANILA (NUJP/Pacific Media Watch): Filipino journalists are holding a nationwide protest tomorrow against escalating attacks on media professionals following the killings of two newsmen in the past week. More >>
New Book Challenges Pacific Donor Media Training
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 9:05 am | Pacific Media Watch
Author David Robie will have a new book published next month that challenges the South Pacific's culture of short course media training funded by international donors. More >>
Broadcaster Shot In Aklan
Monday, 15 November 2004, 12:45 am | Pacific Media Watch
MANILA (NUJP/Pacific Media Watch): Heherson Hinolan, station manager of DYIN Bombo Radyo Kalibo was shot by an unidentified gunman last night (August 13) in the capital of Aklan province, on Panay island in the central part of the Philippines. More >>
Death Of Mindanews Photoeditor Big Loss
Monday, 15 November 2004, 12:43 am | Pacific Media Watch
MANILA (NUJP/Pacific Media Watch): The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) shares the deep grief and outrage of our Mindanawon colleagues in the senseless murder of Gene Boyd Lumawag, 25, photo editor of Mindanews. We also extend our condolences ... More >>
