Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 17:21
Papua New Guinea’s Tok Pisin language newspaper Wantok, founded in 1969, is one of the publishing icons of the South Pacific.Philip Cass of Unitec presents a seminar on the newspaper and the...
Monday, April 15, 2013
Jamie Small reports: Local journalists and foreign observers are watching carefully as the controversial sale of Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes continues to unfold. New negotiations have begun...
Friday, April 12, 2013
SYDNEY (ABC News / Pacific Media Watch): Fairfax business journalist Paddy Manning has been sacked for writing an opinion piece fiercely critical of the publisher's recently-announced...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
OPINION: Alex Wake argues the Australian Federal government's Conroy’s clumsy handling of proposed reform, paired with the unrelenting campaign the major media companies have waged against...
Saturday, March 9, 2013
To my mind, a recent contempt of court oversight tells more about the shortage of senior staff and the stresses and strains of publishing anything that may be considered controversial than it does...
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Crosbie Walsh OPINION: It's so easy to flick quickly though the news and accept what the journalist writes or says, often reporting the views of another, without taking time out to really...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
AUCKLAND (Cafe Pacific / Pacific Media Watch): Amnesty International has called for an independent and transparent investigation into the Fiji assault of two prisoners by apparent plainclothes...
Monday, March 4, 2013
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands (Pacific Freedom Forum / Pacific Media Watch): The lack of factual information surrounding the recent sacking of a Papua New Guinea journalist poses another warning to...
Saturday, February 23, 2013
SUVA (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): A Pacific media advocacy group, the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF) says Fiji’s news organisations have suffered a "double...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
WELLINGTON (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand’s Sunday Star-Times newspaper says the Fiji Times may be forced out of business after being fined F300,000 (US$170,000)...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
AUCKLAND (Cafe Pacific / Pacific Media Watch): Hard on the heels of a new decree by Fiji’s military-backed regime effectively gagging reporting about political parties no longer officially...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Times Limited has been ordered to pay a fine of F$300,000 and court costs of $2000 within 28 days after being convicted...
Saturday, February 9, 2013
PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier / Pacific Media Watch): The Post-Courier has announced the appointments of senior journalist Gorethy Kenneth as chief-of-staff and Melanie Vari and Ephata Samuel as...
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...
Sunday, February 3, 2013
PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea’s inability to man its 760km land border with Indonesia and increasing tension triggered by cross-border raids from...
