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Fiji Treason Transcripts Priced In The Stratospher
Monday, 2 December 2002, 10:36 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (AFP/Pacific Media Watch): Australian aid provided transcriptions of Fiji's high profile treason trial were Friday being turned into a money spinning operation for the High Court Registry, AFP reports. More >>
East Timor, Pacific Online Projects Feature @JEANZ
Monday, 2 December 2002, 9:59 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
WELLINGTON (Contact/Pacific Media Watch): An East Timor news media capacity building web project and a Pacific university online journalism training model have featured among presentations at the two-day Journalism Education Association of New Zealand ... More >>
Hansard Reporter Gives Evidence In Treason Trial
Monday, 2 December 2002, 9:57 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews/Pacific Media Watch): A Fiji Hansard reporter today told a treason trial she was scared, shocked and stunned when the parliamentary session on 19 May 2000 was unceremoniously adjourned after what she called "strangers" entered the ... More >>
Book Reveals UN Colluded In West Papua Takeover
Monday, 25 November 2002, 10:22 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
DUBLIN (The Irish Times/Pacific Media Watch): Evidence of United Nations collusion in the violent takeover of West Papua by Indonesia 40 years ago is revealed in a new book on the subject, which was launched in Dublin this week. More >>
PNG: Academic Praises Local Reporters Bravery
Monday, 25 November 2002, 10:20 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier/Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea journalists don't get much recognition for the bravery they show in the line of duty, the Post-Courier reports. More >>
Fiji: Government 'Hands Off' In Daily Post Strike
Monday, 25 November 2002, 10:19 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji government says it will not interfere in the week-long Daily Post strike as the media company's board has appointed an independent consultant to look into the workers' grievances, Wansolwara Online ... More >>
Morauta To Sue, But Maladina Sticks To His Guns
Wednesday, 20 November 2002, 10:25 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY (The National/Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea's former Ombudsman Commissioner Angau Wangatau yesterday refused to comment on an alleged meeting in 1999 between himself, ex-prime minister Sir Mekere Morauta and former NPF chairman ... More >>
Fiji Daily Post staff on strike over conditions
Tuesday, 19 November 2002, 2:23 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews/Pacific Media Watch): About 60 unionised staff at Fiji's Daily Post newspaper have walked off their jobs in protest at working conditions, Pacnews reports. More >>
WansolVisin Media Broadcasts Via Satellite
Tuesday, 19 November 2002, 10:02 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
* Pacific Media Watch Online - check the website for archive and links: http://www.pmw.c2o.org * Post a comment on PMW's Right of Reply: http://www.TheGuestBook.com/egbook/257949.gbook More >>
African Scoop Wins Top World Journalism Prize
Monday, 18 November 2002, 2:13 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
BRUSSELS (International Federation of Journalists/Pacific Media Watch): Raymond Archer from Ghana, a young journalist who reported a deportation scandal that rocked the government of Sweden, has scooped the gold medal in the 2002 Lorenzo Natali Prize ... More >>
TVNZ to screen Gang Girls doco
Wednesday, 13 November 2002, 11:23 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (Front of the Box/Pacific Media Watch): Television New Zealand will next week screen Gang Girls, a powerful new documentary telling the stories of seven women from the country's most notorious gangs. More >>
Indonesia: Protests Over Assault On Two Journalist
Wednesday, 13 November 2002, 11:21 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
(AJI/IFEX) - The following is a statement by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), of which AJI is a member: The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Jakarta denounces the assault on two journalists by a Pontianak member of parliament (MP) and one of ... More >>
Philippines: Media Repression In Negros Island
Tuesday, 12 November 2002, 8:39 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
QUEZON CITY (CMFR/IFEX): The media community of Negros Island, central Philippines, has decried the rising wave of media repression on the island, in light of two recent cases of alleged harassment of two local journalists by local government and military ... More >>
Cyber-Dissident Sentenced To Four Years In Prison
Monday, 11 November 2002, 9:03 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
* Pacific Media Watch Online - check the website for archive and links: http://www.pmw.c2o.org * Post a comment on PMW's Right of Reply: http://www.TheGuestBook.com/egbook/257949.gbook CYBER-DISSIDENT SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON More >>
Two Soldiers Charged For Killing Dutch Journalist
Monday, 11 November 2002, 9:02 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Two Indonesian soldiers were among seven people indicted Wednesday in East Timor for killing a Dutch journalist and 19 others during the country's independence struggle in 1999, the United Nations said in a statement. More >>
Indonesia: Broadcasting Bill Criticised
Monday, 11 November 2002, 9:00 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The latest draft of the broadcasting law, to be deliberated in the next two weeks, reveals the ignorance of the House of Representatives and the government in regards public demands for revision of several contentious articles. More >>
Fiji: Media Critics Slam News Service 'Hypocrisy'
Monday, 11 November 2002, 8:59 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): Rival Pacific news services and media critics are fuming over a Fiji-based news magazine's columnist, accusing her of self-serving bias, misrepresentation and hypocrisy. More >>
Government Duped By 'US Invasion' Website Satire
Monday, 4 November 2002, 8:52 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
TARAWA (Pacnews/Spinner News/Pacific Media Watch): A story about plans by the United States to invade Kiribati that has caused widespread concern in Tarawa and Christmas Island came from a New Zealand satirical website. More >>
Of Croaking Toads, Liars And Ratbags
Friday, 1 November 2002, 10:06 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Fourth Estate column by a University of the South Pacific journalism lecturer, SHAILENDRA SINGH, who is a former editor of The Review news magazine and currently supervising editor-in-chief of USP's Wansolwara regional training newspaper. More >>
Russian Anti-Terrorism Law Tightens Grip On Media
Thursday, 31 October 2002, 11:41 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Amidst the fallout from last week's hostage crisis in Moscow, which killed 117 people, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) are calling attention to growing restrictions on Russian media, ... More >>
