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Journalist Gunned Down In San Pablo City
Monday, 26 August 2002, 9:08 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
MANILA: Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) today protested the murder earlier in the day of TV presenter and magazine editor Sonny Alcantara, who was killed by a bullet to the head in San Pablo City (80 kilometers south of Manila) ... More >>
Tongan Authorities Accused Of Persecution
Monday, 5 August 2002, 5:02 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): A Tongan newspaper publisher once jailed for contempt of Parliament in the autocratic Pacific kingdom has accused royal authorities of persecuting political dissidents and independent news media. More >>
Editorial: World Denied News On PNG Poll
Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 11:42 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY (Pacific Media Watch/Post-Courier): The international community is being denied news about the conduct of the Papua New Guinea general elections and no one in Government has offered any explanation for this. More >>
Murdoch Group Closes NZ's Last Metro Evening Daily
Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 11:40 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The Rupert Murdoch newspaper chain in New Zealand is closing the country's last metropolitan evening newspaper in what is being described as a "merger" by the publishers and an "axing" in a Radio New Zealand report. More >>
Concern About Draft Media Legislation
Monday, 17 June 2002, 3:09 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has voiced its concern about draft media legislation currently being examined by the Kiribati Parliament. More >>
Murdoch Media And Fiji Editorials Highlighted
Friday, 14 June 2002, 12:13 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): Murdoch and other foreign domination of the New Zealand media, Fiji coup editorials, the Pacific "non solution" on refugees, and rural publishing in Papua New Guinea are featured in the latest edition of Pacific ... More >>
Bad Governance 'Root Cause' Of Pacific Woes
Thursday, 13 June 2002, 1:31 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Bad governance is the "root cause" of the chronic economic and social woes bedeviling Pacific island countries, a seminar in Suva heard today. More >>
Rabuka Dismisses Coup Fears Over Chaudhry
Thursday, 13 June 2002, 1:30 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Former Fiji coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka has down played the possibility of prime minister Laisenia Qarase losing the support of indigenous Fijians if he were to include Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry in cabinet. More >>
Indonesia: Attitudes To Rape: The Media's Role
Thursday, 13 June 2002, 1:28 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Recently I was yet again appalled at media representations of rape, when a local TV network accounted for the cause of sexual violence with this statement: "Women walking at night should not wear mini skirts in order to avoid rape". More >>
USP Coordinator Calls For Critical Journalists
Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 9:03 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific region desperately needs critically thinking and ethically challenging journalists if they are to play a serious role in good governance, says a prominent Fiji-based media educator. More >>
Television correspondent hurt in grenade attack
Thursday, 6 June 2002, 9:11 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
QUEZON CITY, Philippines: On the night of 2 June 2002, a grenade thrown by two men aboard a motorcycle exploded at the home of a television reporter in Cotabato City, Southern Philippines, newspapers in Metro Manila reported. More >>
Journalism Plans $250,000 Building
Thursday, 6 June 2002, 9:10 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
WORK on a new F$250,000 building for the University of the South Pacific’s journalism programme is expected to start early next year. More >>
USP journalism post advertisement
Wednesday, 5 June 2002, 9:28 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The University of the South Pacific Serving the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu - SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Journalism Studies More >>
USP Farewells Outgoing Journalism Coordinator
Wednesday, 5 June 2002, 9:26 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The University community today (June 4) officially farewelled its outgoing coordinator of the journalism programme, Mr David Robie, at a luncheon hosted by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Rajesh Chandra and the University’s management staff. More >>
Wansolwara slams poor Pacific leadership
Wednesday, 5 June 2002, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Wansolwara has condemned the lack of leadership in Pacific countries, saying many were mired in corruption and floundering. More >>
FIJI: Remain 'impartial', journalists told
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 9:48 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): Fiji Media Council chairman Daryl Tarte says journalists must be careful not to align themselves to political parties and large organisations to safeguard their partiality and objectivity, reports the Fiji Sun. More >>
Treason charge against journalist stays
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 9:47 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): Fiji journalist Jo Nata and politician Ratu Timoci Silatolu, supporters of coup frontman George Speight, still face treason charges after a judge ruled that the military commander had no lawful authority to promulgate an immunity ... More >>
SOLOMON IS: 'Give up the gun' plea to comrades
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 9:46 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Two key former Solomon Island militants from opposing camps — who are now University of the South Pacific students — have called on their former comrades to give up arms and come together in forgiveness, reconciliation and nation-building. More >>
Whistleblower Slams Behind Scenes Waste Dump Moves
Thursday, 30 May 2002, 12:05 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
USP Pacific Journalism Online: http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/ Wansolwara Online (USP): http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/docs/news/index.html More >>
AIDS Adviser Accuses Fiji Authorities Of Breach
Monday, 27 May 2002, 10:13 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA, May 26 (Pasifik Nius): A community AIDS adviser has accused Fiji health authorities of breach of confidentiality over a public admission that two HIV prostitutes were still walking the streets knowing they had the virus. More >>
