Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 09:57
SEMINAR/VIDEO Is the Pacific media freedom issue as serious as it is presented or is it driven by donor agendas? Or, on the other hand, is it worse than generally perceived around the region and can...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Johnny Blades PORT VILA (Radiio NZ International /Pacific Media Watch): West Papuan leaders living in exile in Vanuatu have called on the government to reconsider its foreign policy in regard to...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Alex Perrottet OPINION (Pacific Media Watch): At times, the media is poor at covering its own issues. We would rather point the spotlight away from ourselves. But when it comes to press...
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Peter Aitsi OPINION: The Constitution of Papua New Guinea under Section 46 Subsection 2 Item b reads:
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Jessi Mee AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): New Zealanders should not take their media freedom for granted, a leading Pasifika journalist told a public seminar marking World Press...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Brutal repression of journalists and civil rights in Indonesian-ruled West Papua, censorship and self-censorship in Fiji and abuses of a free press in Papua New...
Sunday, April 29, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): An award-winning Fiji-born investigative journalist has attacked a Radio Australia news item about last month’s PINA Pacific Media Summit in Fiji, describing...
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Graham Davis OPINION: Sometimes in a long career in journalism – and Grubsheet has been a scribe for nigh on 40 years – one reads or hears an account of an event at which one was present...
Saturday, April 28, 2012
AUCKLAND (Radio Australia / Grubsheet / Cafe Pacific / Pacific Media Watch):
Media view 1 (April 26):
Academic criticises PINA for stifling dissent at media summit
Friday, April 27, 2012
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) has been criticised for allegedly stifling dissent at its recent conference in Fiji.
Dr Marc Edge,...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
PARIS (Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières / Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders condemns the beating that National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) radio...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): New Caledonia's indigenous Kanak radio station, Radio Djiido, has topped the ratings chart in the French territory.
The station, which...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Graham Davis OPINION: The South Pacific media has been wracked by deep division over how journalists should respond to the 2006 Fiji coup and Frank Bainimarama’s continuing hold on power.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Anthony Haas REVIEW: An Auckland-based Tongan academic’s reporting and analysis of contemporary Tongan provides an agenda for media, opposition and others who should operate the kingdom’s...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Ian Katz LONDON (The Guardian / Pacific Media Watch): The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than...
