Micronesia

Café Pacific: Why the gagging tactics over the Kiribati Independent?

Monday, May 21, 2012

Why is the Communications Ministry in Tarawa dragging its feet over registration for the Kiribati Independent newspaper? Five months waiting for...

KIRIBATI: Communications Ministry blocks Kiribati Independent

Sunday, May 20, 2012

TARAWA (Kiribati Independent / Pacific Media Watch): The Ministry of Communications has ordered Kiribati Independent newspaper to cease publication...

REGION: Islands Business editorial on an united media front

Thursday, May 17, 2012

SUVA (Islands Business / Pacific Media Watch): Editorial quote: "It is a positive development that there is a realisation that the regional...

Pacific Journalism Review 18(1)

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Emerging investigative journalism ‘culture’ featured in latest Pacific Journalism Review ...

REGION: Emerging investigative journalism ‘culture’ featured in latest Pacific Journalism Review

Thursday, May 17, 2012

AUCKLAND (Pacific Journalism Review / Pacific Media Watch): Universities are part of an emerging investigative journalism culture that is pushing...

Pacific media freedom 2011: A status report

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Alex Perrottet and David Robie: This research report covers the period 1 July 2010-30 June 2011 and examines the trends in the Pacific region. In...

REGION: Free speech no fait accompli

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Alex Perrottet OPINION: SUVA (Pacific Media Watch): Here in Fiji, press freedom is not taken for granted. From the time of the military coup in 2006...

VIDEO: Assaults, repression, self-censorship plague Pacific media, says new PMW report

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...

REGION: UN body highlights needs for Pacific media freedom

Monday, April 30, 2012

SUVA (Xinhua / People's Daily / Pacific Media Watch): The Suva-based UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Regional Office for the...

'Edge of reality' - the PINA media summit exposed

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...

Pacific tilting west to PNG – and Super Power rivalry

Friday, April 27, 2012

Wadan Narsey COMMENTARY: If this was a news release by a geologist, alarm bells would be ringing around the Pacific and international scientific...

Pacific media 'at peace' after bitter infighting over Fiji

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...