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Sunkamap Times Newspaper Launched In Bougainville
Friday, 12 March 2004, 8:53 am | Pacific Media Watch
BUKA, Bougainville (Sunkamap Times/Pacific Media Watch): The Sunkamap Times has been launched as Bougainville's new newspaper and is the first paper to cover the whole region. More >>
Human Rights Report Media Excerpt On East Timor
Monday, 1 March 2004, 9:13 am | Pacific Media Watch
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003 Released by the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor February 25, 2004 More >>
East Timorese Youth Make A Success Of Radio
Monday, 1 March 2004, 9:12 am | Pacific Media Watch
Young people have made a success of community radio stations in the tiny country where all infrastructure - schools, clinics and houses - was destroyed during the fight for independence. More >>
Freedom Of The Press Under Fire In South-East Asia
Monday, 1 March 2004, 9:10 am | Pacific Media Watch
BANGKOK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur/Pacific Media Watch): Freedom of the press, which flowered in several Southeast Asian nations in the 1990s, now appears to be withering under pressure from authoritarian governments, corrupt judges and corporate interference, ... More >>
Three Pacific winners AUT/PIMA media scholarship
Friday, 13 February 2004, 8:58 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (AUT/Pacific Media Watch): Two former Fiji journalists and a Tongan community volunteer have been awarded the AUT/PIMA Pacific Communication Scholarships 2003 and will take up their studies at Auckland University of Technology this year. More >>
Tongan Government Hits Back At Ifj Protest
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 8:41 am | Pacific Media Watch
NUKU'ALOFA (Tonga Information Unit/Pacific Media Watch): The Tongan Government has condemned a protest by the International Federation of Journalists over the state of press freedom in the kingdom, including the recent "shutdown" of newspapers ... More >>
MASI Condemns Attack On Star Photojournalist
Friday, 30 January 2004, 8:35 am | Pacific Media Watch
HONIARA (MASI/Pacific Media Watch): The Media Association of Solomon Islands has strongly condemned the actions of the relatives of disgraced former police superintendent James Kili outside the Honiara Magistrates Court yesterday morning when they chased ... More >>
PNG: Post-Courier mourns loss of reporter
Monday, 22 December 2003, 9:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (Post-Courier Online/Pacific Media Watch): This newspaper is now mourning the death of one of its most outstanding young reporters... More >>
PNG: Post-Courier Surprised By Media Control
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 8:51 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): The managing director of Papua New Guinea¹s Post-Courier newspaper says he still doesn¹t know if a proposal to control foreign-owned media is government policy. More >>
Information Vital For PNG
Monday, 3 November 2003, 9:07 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (Post-Courier/Pacific Media Watch). Information is power and Papua New Guinea needs to find the right medium to communicate to the people so they can make informed decisions, reports the Post-Courier. More >>
Almost 30 Years On, A Quest Continues
Monday, 3 November 2003, 9:06 am | Pacific Media Watch
Families of the journalists killed in East Timor in 1975 have travelled to the island to open a memorial centre, but are still seeking answers, writes Jill Jolliffe. More >>
Indonesian Editor: Press Freedom Waning
Friday, 31 October 2003, 9:49 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (AP/Pacific Media Watch)--The editor of a racy Indonesian newspaper Tuesday said his conviction for "spreading hatred" constitutes a setback for press freedom but conceded he'll stop using his front page to skewer the country's leaders. More >>
Manus Island's Last Prisoner Denied Justice
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 8:58 am | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (Green-Left Weekly/Pacific Media Watch): Since the end of July, 24-year-old Palestinian asylum seeker Aladdin Sisalem has been the only prisoner in the Australian government's Lombrum detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea. He has ... More >>
PNG, Solomon Is Media Councils Launch Website
Monday, 20 October 2003, 10:35 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (PNG Media Council/Pacific Media Watch): With a simultaneous "go live" launch in Port Moresby, Honiara and Brisbane at Queensland University of Technology and a video webcast from the Brisbane celebrations, www.png-simediacouncil.org ... More >>
Journalists Attacked During Drug Raid In Medan
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 11:44 pm | Pacific Media Watch
MEDAN (JP/Pacific Media Watch): Several police officers and two journalists here were attacked during an drug raid on a house in a military housing complex in Medan, North Sumatra province. More >>
Time For Nz Media To Represent Pacific
Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 8:35 am | Pacific Media Watch
"When you walk in the Waitakeres you don¹t see white people. You see 'cheeky darkies'." These words by Niu FM journalist Elma Maua encapsulated the feeling at this year¹s Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) conference. More >>
Journalist Raps NZ Travel Journalism With A Whine
Monday, 6 October 2003, 9:04 am | Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand mainstream media coverage of Pacific issues is often little better than travel writing, says Agence France-Presse correspondent Michael Field. More >>
Expert Commentators On Terrorism Challenged In PJR
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 11:01 am | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (ABC/Pacific Media Watch): Some expert commentators on terrorism widely used by mainstream media have been questioned by ABC's The Media Report, citing the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review and other sources. More >>
Pacific Journalism Review Features Iraq Media War
Monday, 22 September 2003, 9:40 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (AUT Communication Studies/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific Journalism Review was published in New Zealand for the first time this week and features a series of articles about Iraq and the media war, Maori media constructing a Maori identity, ... More >>
Fiji Government Takes Over Daily Post
Friday, 12 September 2003, 8:29 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): Yashwant Gaunder has resigned as editor and publisher of Fiji¹s government-owned daily newspaper, the Daily Post. More >>
