Friday, April 19, 2013
Daniel Drageset AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Samoa Air has recorded more than 90 million hits after being the first airline in the world to introduce a system where your air fare harmonises with...
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Daniel Drageset AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Moefa’auo M. L. William ‘Bill’ Emmsley Jr. has been named the new chief executive director of American Samoa TeleCommunications...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Daniel Drageset: Auckland (Reporters Without Borders / Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders have named Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam as “State Enemies of the Internet...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
JAKARTA (Jakarta Globe / Pacific Media Watch): Getting a foothold in the media has never been more challenging for young journalists. Here is an opportunity to work for a year in an exciting...
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...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
PORT MORESBY (Television New Zealand News / Pacific Media Watch): The Papua New Guinea government has launched a crackdown on "subversive" activity on the internet.
It has begun...
Saturday, February 11, 2012
PARIS (Reporters sans frontières / Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders is concerned by a series of media freedom violations in Indonesia in the past few days. At the same time,...
Friday, January 20, 2012
Linda Clark ANALYSIS: Opening the first public session of the inquiry into the culture and ethics of the British press, Lord Justice Leveson said that at the inquiry's heart was one simple...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
PARIS (Reporters sans frontières / Pacific Media Watch): In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders will shut down its English-language website for 24 hours from 8 am. EST on 18...
Monday, May 30, 2011
Yvonne Brill: A six-year-old international exchange programme between AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre and Beijing-based ChinaDaily.com.cn, an English language news website, is in motion,...
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Kalasi Mele
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's daily news portal, Fiji Times Online, will remain inactive until its computer system is reprogrammed to ensure bylines are...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Alex Perrottet: AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): While Fiji and Tonga are in a diplomatic face-off over the defection of Lieutenant-Colonel Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, Fijian journalists have been...
Monday, May 2, 2011
Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: A large mansion in a massive compound with 4m to 6m tall walls topped with barbed wire. No telephone or internet connection to the house. And seldom seen residents who...
Friday, April 15, 2011
Mong Palatino
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysiakini, an independent news portal in Malaysia, has been inaccessible since Tuesday, 12 April 2011, after being targeted by cyber attacks.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
WikiLeaks has only released one or two percent of the US embassy cables that made worldwide news last year - and the rest of them “will blow your mind”, says investigative journalist...
