Friday, February 8, 2013
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre / Pacific Media Watch): Since 2009, the Fiji military-backed regime's tight control and self-censorship has prevented the media from being a "watchdog"...
Friday, February 8, 2013
HONIARA (Solomon Star / Pacific Media Watch): The Solomon Star has filed a complaint with police against two groups of people who threatened and demanded compensation from the newspaper last month...
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Wadan Narsey ANALYSIS: Since 2009, the Fiji military-backed regime's tight control and self-censorship has prevented the media from being a "watchdog" on government, while some media...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
RAROTONGA (Pacific Freedom Forum / Pacific Media Watch): Kiribati needs robust media freedoms if it is to adapt successfully to future challenges from climate change, says the Pacific Freedom Forum...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
PARIS (Reporters Sans Frontières / Pacific Media Watch): Threats to the media in the South Pacific should not be taken lightly in two Melanesian countries, says the Paris-based global press...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch): The Kiribati Independent newspaper has gone back into publication after being shut down last year by the Ministry of...
Saturday, January 26, 2013
SUVA (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): The French ambassador to Fiji has urged members of the public and the international community to recognise the positive changes that have taken...
Friday, January 25, 2013
AUCKLAND (Kiribati Independent / Pacific Media Watch): The Kiribati Independent, the fourth newspaper in the Pacific nation of Kiribati, resumes publication today.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
AUCKLAND (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): A leading New Zealand journalism educator says it is auguring well for Fiji’s future that the media has broadened its coverage of...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
NEW YORK (International Senior Lawyers Project / Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Media Industry Development Decree 2010 fails to distinguish between the executive, legislative and judicial functions...
Friday, January 18, 2013
AUCKLAND (Kiribati Independent / Pacific Media Watch) The Tarawa edition of the Kiribati Independent newspaper remains closed six months after it voluntarily shut down “indefinitely”...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
David Robie COMMENTARY: CAFÉ PACIFIC has returned from a Greek and Turkish odyssey
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
PORT VILA (Vanuatu Times / Pacific Media Watch): Radio FM107 has acknowledged receiving a letter signed by Prime Minister Sato Kilman to “cease operations” and confirms the matter is...
Monday, January 14, 2013
Emma Younger
MELBOURNE (Australian Network News / ABC / Pacific Media Watch): A radio station in Vanuatu is defying government orders to cease broadcasting after the Prime Minister wrote to the...
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Mark Pearson: The United States has its Pulitzer Prizes. Australia has the Walkleys. And journalism education in the region has the Ossies.
