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Foreign Journalists Denied Visas For Aceh
Wednesday, 4 June 2003, 11:16 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
JAKARTA (Jakarta Post Online/Pacific Media Watch): The martial law administrator in the restive province of Aceh has rejected requests from about 10 overseas journalists to cover the war there, an Indonesian Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday. More >>
TONGA: Taimi still not on news stands
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 5:01 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
NUKU'ALOFA (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Taimi 'o Tonga newspaper has still not been released within Tonga despite the government accepting that it should be. More >>
PNG: The Independent weekly to close after 23 yrs
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 4:50 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY (Pacnews/Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea's first English weekly newspaper of 23 years standing will cease to exist at the end of this week when The Independent rolls off the press for the last time on Thursday. More >>
AUT establishes Pasifika Advancement plan
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 2:18 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Auckland University of Technology, the university with New Zealand's largest communication studies and journalism programme, is boosting its Pacific education programme by creating an Office of Pasifika Advancement. More >>
Fiji TV Reporter Stands Firm On Doctor Controversy
Monday, 12 May 2003, 11:29 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji One television reporter Riyaz Sayed Khaiyum is standing by his reports on the doctor shortage at the Valelevu Health Centre despite allegations of bias and racism levelled against him by Health Minister ... More >>
FIJI: Sun journalist wins human rights media award
Thursday, 8 May 2003, 11:33 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji Sun features editor John Kamea won the Fiji Human Rights Commission media award for the second consecutive time at the weekend. More >>
Media Critics Blast Iraq War Coverage
Thursday, 8 May 2003, 11:21 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Two media critics have strongly criticised New Zealand and some global media coverage of the Anglo-American war on Iraq ‹ especially television ‹ describing it as biased and "failing spectacularly" to do its job. More >>
Press Councils on Tonga and the free press
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 2:29 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The Councils and the CPU have observed with growing apprehension the reaction of the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga to the issues of free speech and the rights of a free press. More >>
Fiji TV Boss Quiet Over Exclusivity Licence
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 12:35 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji Television Ltd chief executive Ken Clark was today tight-lipped over the Commerce Commission's decision not to grant the company a 10-year exclusive licence, Wansolwara Online reports. More >>
PNG: RSF protests over law threat to gag critics
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 12:33 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PARIS (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) said today it was concerned about a plan to prosecute anyone, especially journalists, who publicly criticised Papua New Guinea or its government. An Australian and a Papua ... More >>
RSF Petitions Geneva Over US Bombing Of Iraqi TV
Thursday, 3 April 2003, 10:59 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Reporters Without Borders called today on the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to investigate the US-British coalition forces bombing of the Iraqi state TV headquarters in Baghdad as a possible violation of international humanitarian ... More >>
Court order closes private TV channel Téléfenua
Thursday, 3 April 2003, 9:11 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PAPE'ETE: (Tahiti-Presse/Pacific Media Watch): Téléfenua, Tahiti¹s second private television network and the first to offer CNN, has ended eight years of broadcasting following a ruling by the Papeete Commercial Tribunal, Tahiti-Presse reports. More >>
Attacks on Press report for East Timor, Indonesia
Wednesday, 2 April 2003, 10:55 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
A decades-long struggle for independence ended on May 20, when the U.N. Transitional Authority for East Timor (UNTAET) formally handed power to East Timor’s first elected government, making the tiny half-island state the first new nation of the millennium. More >>
Six papers face censure over Bali reports
Monday, 31 March 2003, 9:29 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
JAKARTA: (Laksamana.Net/Pacific Media Watch): Chief of the Indonesian Defense Forces' Staff Command College, Lieutenant General Djaja Suparman, on Thursday (27/3/03) urged the Press Council to reprimand six newspapers that he says accused him of involvement ... More >>
One Journalist Killed, Two Wounded In Iraq
Monday, 24 March 2003, 8:00 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Three journalists were reported missing and one wounded today, Saturday, 22 March 2003, in the south of Iraq. These four journalists working for British Independent Television News (ITN) came under fire at Iman Anas as they drove towards Basra in ... More >>
Accused Lied Through Their Teeth: Judge
Monday, 24 March 2003, 7:55 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Justice Andrew Wilson today found Fiji journalist Josefa Nata and deposed parliamentarian Timoci Silatolu guilty of treason in the High Court in Suva, saying the two had substantially discredited themselves ... More >>
Judge Defers Journalist Treason Case Sentencing
Monday, 24 March 2003, 7:47 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (RNZI/FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): The judge hearing the treason trial of Fiji coup conspirators Josefa Nata, a journalist, and former MP Timoci Silatolu has deferred sentencing until next week, Radio New Zealand International reports. More >>
Newspaper Publisher Calls For 'Fight For Justice'
Monday, 17 March 2003, 1:18 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The publisher of the banned Taimi 'o Tonga newspaper, Kalafi Moala, tonight told a packed New Zealand audience that Pacific people should join a wider struggle for free speech and against oppression. More >>
PINA pres. embroiled in state radio staff dispute
Thursday, 13 March 2003, 11:10 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
HONIARA (Pacific Media Watch): Johnson Honimae, president of the Suva-based regional Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), is embroiled in a dispute with protesting staff and has been asked to take a nine-day break by the Solomon Islands Broadcasting ... More >>
Tongan Media Association aims to muzzle media
Tuesday, 4 March 2003, 7:52 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (RNZI/Pacific Media Watch): Kalafi Moala, publisher of the Taimi 'o Tonga newspaper, which has been banned from Tonga, says the Tongan Media Association is a Government controlled organisation set up to muzzle the media, Radio New Zealand ... More >>
