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Women's Conference Adopts Media Clause

Monday, 23 August 2004, 12:37 am | Pacific Media Watch

NADI, Fiji (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Regional journalists have welcomed the adoption of a media clause in the Pacific Platform for Action on Women by a major regional women¹s conference in Fiji. More >>

Pacific Island Treaty Of Waitangi Fono

Monday, 2 August 2004, 12:39 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND (PIMA/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Island Media Association (PIMA) is hosting a one day fono next Saturday (7 August 2004) to discuss the Treaty of Waitangi and its implications for Pacific Island peoples in New Zealand.=20 More >>

AUSTRALIA: IFJ condemns police 'reporter' ruse

Monday, 26 July 2004, 9:01 am | Pacific Media Watch

SYDNEY ( IFJ Online/Pacific Media Watch ): The IFJ, the world's largest journalists' organisation, today has expressed concern over revelations that an undercover Australian police officer posed as a freelance journalist in order to obtain an arrest. More >>

INDONESIA: IFJ condemns assault on journalist

Thursday, 15 July 2004, 9:35 am | Pacific Media Watch

SYDNEY (IFJ Online/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today condemned the assault on a journalist with the Pos Kupang newspaper daily by an East ... More >>

PNG Post-Courier Heads Anti-Gun Campaign

Thursday, 15 July 2004, 9:32 am | Pacific Media Watch

PORT MORESBY (PANPA Bulletin/Pacific Media Watch): In a response to the alarming upsurge in armed robberies, car hijackings and tribal shootouts in Papua New Guinea, the PNG Post-Courier staged an anti-gun campaign, which it ran on its front pages ... More >>

Australia Funds Pacific Media Workshop

Wednesday, 14 July 2004, 8:46 am | Pacific Media Watch

SUVA (PI Forum Secretariat/Pacific Media Watch): Australia is to fund a regional media workshop at the Pacific Islands Forum and related meetings in Apia, Samoa, on August 3-10, organized by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. More >>

EAST TIMOR: RSF protests expulsion of journalist

Thursday, 1 July 2004, 8:37 am | Pacific Media Watch

PARIS (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) protested at the East Timor government¹s expulsion of Australian freelance journalist Julian King even though a court in Dili had cleared him of charges brought by the ... More >>

Southeast Asia IFJ Journalism For Tolerance Prize

Monday, 28 June 2004, 8:51 am | Pacific Media Watch

MANILA (IFJ/Pacific Media Watch): The winners of the IFJ Journalism for Tolerance Prize for Southeast Asia were announced today in an awards ceremony at the Westin Philippines Plaza in Manila, Philippines. More >>

PNG: Former Military Chief Details Sandline Crisis

Tuesday, 22 June 2004, 9:00 am | Pacific Media Watch

PORT MORESBY (The National Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Bougainville crisis of 1997 was a political crisis that needed a political solution and not the barrel of the gun, says former Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) commander Major General ... More >>

Philippines: Outspoken Radio Journalist Murdered

Monday, 21 June 2004, 10:21 am | Pacific Media Watch

PARIS (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders today voiced dismay at the murder yesterday in the southern Philippines of Eliseo "Ely" Binoya, a radio journalist known for outspoken political commentary on local Radyo Natin ... More >>

Sandline Mercenaries Operating In Iraq

Thursday, 17 June 2004, 9:06 am | Pacific Media Watch

PORT MORESBY (The National Online/Pacific Media Watch): Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer, the Sandline mercenary of the Bougainville crisis fame of 1997, has resurfaced in Baghdad, Iraq, to head what is undisputedly the biggest private army in the world. More >>

Colonialism Well And Alive In The Pacific: Kelsey

Monday, 14 June 2004, 8:52 am | Pacific Media Watch

ROTORUA, NZ (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Colonialism is still part of the Pacific even though most Pacific island countries are independent, says a New Zealand academic. More >>

Skate Warns PM Over 'Media Gag'

Friday, 11 June 2004, 8:39 am | Pacific Media Watch

PORT MORESBY (Post-Courier Online/Pacific Media Watch): Former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Bill Skate is ³alarmed¹¹ at [threats] by Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare of silencing the media reporting on the latest political events as they unfold. More >>

USP To Host Regional Media Conference

Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 9:28 am | Pacific Media Watch

SUVA (USP Journalism/Pacific Media Watch): The University of the South Pacific's Journalism Programme is hosting the annual Journalism Education Association (JEA) conference in Fiji. More >>

FIJI: Three firms share 'worst company'award

Tuesday, 1 June 2004, 8:45 am | Pacific Media Watch

SUVA (PANG/Pacific Media Watch): British American Tobacco (BAT), Courts Fiji Ltd and the Fiji Sugar Corporation have won the Draunisalato Award for being the three worst companies operating in the Fiji islands in 2003. More >>

Cook Is TV Rescreens China Hiv/Aids Doco

Monday, 10 May 2004, 9:35 am | Pacific Media Watch

AVARUA, Rarotonga (JB/Pacific Media Watch): Cook Islands Television tonight rescreened an HIV/AIDS documentary cut short by the station the night before. More >>

Doubts Cast On Media's Nation-Building Role

Friday, 7 May 2004, 9:16 am | Pacific Media Watch

SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): An education professor based at the University of the South Pacific has cast doubt on the role the media could play in nation-building and conflict management in the South Pacific. More >>

Cook IslandsTV Cuts Off Aids In China Expose

Friday, 7 May 2004, 9:15 am | Pacific Media Watch

AVARUA, Rarotonga (JB/Pacific Media Watch): Signals carrying a television expose on how HIV/AIDS was spread in China by corrupt officials were abruptly cut mid-programme in the Cook Islands last night. More >>

Reporter Priestley Habru Wins Fellowship

Thursday, 6 May 2004, 8:47 am | Pacific Media Watch

HONIARA (CPU/Pacific Media Watch): A senior Solomon Star reporter who was trained at both the University of Papua New Guinea and University of the South Pacific journalism schools is among 10 Commonwealth journalists awarded a Harry Brittain Fellowship ... More >>

Almost No [Indonesian] Press Company Has Union

Monday, 3 May 2004, 10:13 am | Pacific Media Watch

JAKARTA (Jakarta Post Online/Pacific Media Watch): Despite widespread coverage of labor rights and trade union by the press, it is a kind of irony that almost none of the mass media organizations has one for their employees. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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