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New Media Journal Makes Debut In NZ
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 8:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (AUT Communication Studies/Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand's Auckland University of Technology has become the new hub of Pacific Journalism Review, a journal critically examining the media industry in the Asia-Pacific region. More >>
Mayor Storms Paper Office
Wednesday, 3 September 2003, 8:45 am | Pacific Media Watch
HONIARA (Post-Courier Online/Pacific Media Watch): The mayor of the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, on Friday stormed the Solomon Star newsroom and demanded that the local daily stop publishing "negative stories" about the city council, ... More >>
FIJI: Former Fiji Times editor laid to rest
Monday, 1 September 2003, 10:16 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): Another chapter in Fiji’s history was closed yesterday when a statesman and a "father of journalism", Sir Leonard Usher, was laid to rest, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Pacific Media Fono In NZ
Monday, 1 September 2003, 10:12 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (PIMA/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Islands Media Association of New Zealand (PIMA) will be holding its 2003 conference on October 3 and 4 at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). More >>
Media Ownership And Democracy Papers
Thursday, 21 August 2003, 8:55 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific Journalism Review, published by Auckland University of Technology's School of Communication Studies, has issued a call for research papers and commentaries on the theme "Media ownership and ... More >>
PNG: Newspaper Office Attacked
Friday, 15 August 2003, 8:55 am | Pacific Media Watch
NEW YORK (CPJ/Pacific Media Watch): Armed men claiming to be supporters of Harold Keke, a rebel leader in the Solomon Islands, attacked the Bougainville offices of the daily English-language Papua New Guinea Post-Courier and threatened Gorethy Kenneth, ... More >>
Buka Threat To Press Freedom Over Keke
Friday, 15 August 2003, 8:52 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (Post-Courier/Pacific Media Watch): The attack on our Buka bureau chief Gorethy Kenneth (see PMW item 4143) by elements claiming to be supporters of Solomon Islands rebel leader Harold Keke is strongly condemned. More >>
Merger Of Pacific News Organisations Close
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 10:49 am | Pacific Media Watch
APIA (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): The formation of a single news media organisation for the South Pacific has moved a step closer, Radio New Zealand International reports. More >>
Sun Editor-In-Chief Dies Of Massive Heart Attack
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 10:47 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Sun's recently appointed editor-in-chief has died of a massive heart attack at the Suva Private Hospital, Wansolwara Online reports. More >>
US Reporter's Trial Opens In Indonesia
Wednesday, 30 July 2003, 2:39 pm | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (San Francisco Chronicle Foreign Service/Pacific Media Watch): William Nessen, an American freelance journalist who spent weeks traveling with independence-seeking guerrillas in the restive northwestern province of Aceh, went on trial Wednesday ... More >>
Chirac Wants To 'Revitalise' Pacific Relations
Wednesday, 30 July 2003, 2:37 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PAPE'ETE (Oceania Flash/Pacific Media Watch): French President Jacques Chirac, who has arrived in the Pacific territory of French Polynesia, has declared he wants to "revitalise" relations with Pacific island nations after tensions had arisen ... More >>
Los Angeles Times exposes Pacific cyber-stalker
Friday, 20 June 2003, 10:09 am | Pacific Media Watch
Scores of individuals and organisations around the South Pacific region - including Divine Word University staff and Pacific Media Watch - have been the target of a series of attacks on websites created by Californian cyber-stalker Bill White. A ... More >>
Curbs In Aceh Put Journalists At 'Grave Risk'
Monday, 26 May 2003, 3:16 pm | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (Jakarta Post/Pacific Media Watch): The Indonesian military (TNI)'s attempts to stop reporters quoting rebel statements in Aceh province put journalists covering the war there "at grave risk", a New York-based journalists' organisation ... More >>
FIJI: Chaudhry says coup took Fiji back 20 years
Tuesday, 20 May 2003, 8:37 am | Pacific Media Watch
* Pacific Media Watch Online - check the website for archive and links: http://www.pmw.c2o.org More >>
'I Was Only Following Instructions': Nata
Friday, 7 February 2003, 6:45 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Media adviser Josefa Nata swore allegiance to former President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara but helped in the swearing-in of Ratu Jope Seniloli for the release of hostages, particularly Adi Koila Nailatikau, the High Court heard yesterday. More >>
Journalist Charged Over Speight Coup Exec-Orders
Friday, 7 February 2003, 9:43 am | Pacific Media Watch
Media adviser Josefa Nata drafted a proposal for Fiji coup frontman George Speight to submit executive authority back to former President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the High Court heard yesterday. More >>
Derek Fox Says Mainsream Media Sour on Maori
Thursday, 6 February 2003, 10:56 am | Pacific Media Watch
Derek Fox, chairman of the Maori Television Service, yesterday attacked mainstream New Zealand media coverage of Maori issues, describing it as derogatory and disrespectful. More >>
Indo-Fijian Politicians Blast Samoan Publisher
Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 9:03 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Indo-Fijian political leaders have hit out at statements by a Samoan newspaper publisher blaming Indo-Fijians and Asians as the cause of ethnic division in Fiji, The Fiji Times reports. More >>
'Keep Up Articles On Corruption'
Monday, 13 January 2003, 10:02 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (The National/Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinean journalists have been commended for the numerous articles on corruption by people in high places in the country, The National reports. More >>
Will Indonesia Wreck a Part of Its Economy?
Sunday, 12 January 2003, 8:45 pm | Pacific Media Watch
One of the few things to go right in Indonesia in recent years was media reform. Soon after the ouster in 1998 of President Suharto, the country's strongman of 30 years, the new government abolished the reviled Ministry of Information, freed anybody ... More >>
