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Fiji Government Releases Detained NZ Journalist
Tuesday, 4 March 2003, 7:38 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Government has struck off the name of New Zealand journalist Michael Field - who was detained at Nadi International Airport earlier today - from a list of "prohibited immigrants", Pacnews reports. More >>
PMW Protests To Tongan Government Over Ban
Monday, 3 March 2003, 9:38 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Pacific Media Watch has protested to the Tongan government over the prohibited import order against New Zealand-based Taimi 'o Tonga and appealed for urgent lifting of the ban. More >>
Fiji Times blasts Metro's 'one-sided' report
Monday, 3 March 2003, 9:36 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (USPJ/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's largest selling newspaper, The Fiji Times, has criticised New Zealand journalist Gilbert Wong for what it claims is a "one-sided, one dimensional" report in Metro magazine on Fiji. More >>
Government Insults Intelligence Of Common Tongans
Monday, 3 March 2003, 9:34 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The Tonga government and its "puppet" Tonga Media Association have insulted the intelligence of commoner Tongans and 40,000 readers of the banned newspaper Taimi 'o Tonga with statements defending the ban, claims Taimi. More >>
PIMA Calls TongansTo Support Banned Newspaper
Monday, 3 March 2003, 9:25 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (PIMA/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Islands Media Association today appealed to Tongan readers of the banned newspaper Taimi 'o Tonga (Times of Tonga) to launch a "mail back home" campaign in support. More >>
Column: Power And The Press: Love And Hatred
Thursday, 27 February 2003, 1:29 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
WHEN we want to critically analyse press reports in the media, then a question comes up in our mind: which media? The press media is so pluralistic and heterogenic. More >>
Peace documentary screened on Triangle TV
Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 3:08 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (IndyMedia/Pacific Media Watch): The global peace weekend has demonstrated a new world "answer" to the corporate and military cultures, says Greens MP Keith Locke in a new independent peace documentary screened on a community television station ... More >>
Takeuchi Denies Most Of Samoan Editor's Editorial
Monday, 24 February 2003, 10:30 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Veteran Pacific journalist Floyd Takeuchi has claimed that Samoan publisher and editor Savea Sano Malifa "misinterpreted" a conversation he had with him at a bar in the Samoan capital, Apia, which resulted in a controversial editorial about Fiji's crime ... More >>
Former Solomons Journalist And MP Defends Media
Tuesday, 11 February 2003, 9:58 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
HONIARA (Pacnews/Pacific Media Watch): Former Pacific journalist Alfred Sasako and now an MP has defended Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) against a political leader's threat to sue the state-run radio for failing to reveal news sources, ... More >>
Journalist, ex-MP claim 'no case' in treason trial
Monday, 27 January 2003, 9:32 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): A Fiji journalist and a former MP accused of treason have filed for no case to answer before the High Court, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Labour minister slates BBC 'segregation' report
Monday, 27 January 2003, 9:31 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): A British Broadcasting Corporation country profile on Fiji highlighting differences between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians has stirred conservative politicians with Labour Minister Kenneth Zinck describing ... More >>
Malaysiakini Eviction Notice After Police Raid
Monday, 27 January 2003, 9:31 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP/Pacific Media Watch): A Malaysian internet newspaper being investigated for publishing an allegedly seditious letter said Friday it had been slapped with an eviction notice in another bid to shut it down, AFP reports. More >>
Journalist To Give Testimony In Treason Trial
Monday, 27 January 2003, 9:29 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji treason accused Ratu Timoci Silatolu, a deposed MP, and journalist Josefa Nata will be giving sworn evidence in court when the trial resumes on Monday, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Media Spotlight Resumes On Treason, Court Martial
Tuesday, 21 January 2003, 8:31 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): A media spotlight on Fiji's treason and court-martial cases resumes tomorrow with mitigation witnesses due to appear in the Labasa barracks case in the wake of Cyclone Ami, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Chaudhry Hits Back In 'Indian Plight' Controversy
Tuesday, 14 January 2003, 9:52 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): Deposed Fiji prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry has pledged to continue highlighting the plight of Fiji-Indians at every international forum, whatever the criticism at home, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Fiji: IFJ Praises Daily Post Strike Success
Tuesday, 17 December 2002, 11:03 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SYDNEY (International Federation of Journalists/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists, the global organisation of journalists representing more than 500,000 journalists worldwide, has sent a message of support to Fiji's Daily ... More >>
Judge Rejects Prosecution Bid To Ban Media
Monday, 9 December 2002, 10:23 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Daily Post/FijiLive/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji High Court Judge Justice Anthony Gates yesterday disallowed an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions to bar the media from covering a misprision of treason trial of Fijian nationalist ... More >>
Fiji Daily Post Workers Call Off Strike
Monday, 9 December 2002, 10:21 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Striking Daily Post workers returned to work today after winning the Fiji's Labour Ministry recognition of their protest as a trade dispute, reports The Fiji Times. More >>
FIJI: Treason Trial Behind Closed Doors
Monday, 9 December 2002, 10:20 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (FijiLive/Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): The treason trial of journalist/publicist Josefa Nata and politician Timoci Silatolu was held in closed court yesterday, the Daily Post reports. More >>
PNG: Madang Police Beat Up Journalism Educator
Tuesday, 3 December 2002, 8:43 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY (The National/Pacific Media Watch): Police have assaulted and verbally abused a prominent Papua New Guinean newspaper columnist and journalism educator for reporting on their role in evicting settlers from Madang town, The National reports. More >>
