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The terrible legacy of Fiji’s national trauma of May 1987
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Graham Davis COMMENTARY: The 26th anniversary of the first 1987 Coup has revived some traumatic memories for many of us who lived through it – the shock, the air of menace, the violence, the feeling that Fiji...
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Pacific Scoop challenges political elites over health, human rights, social justice
Friday, May 10, 2013
Jane Jeffries REPORT: “Journalism is in crisis in the Pacific region and this is reaching a new level of intensity,” says one editor. But independent Pacific Scoop challenges the status quo.
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Papua peace journalist tries to drum up NZ support amid Indonesian crackdown
Friday, May 10, 2013
Jamie Small REPORT: A UN Commissioner says that over the last year her office has received 26 reports of alleged human rights violations in West Papua, many of which are linked to law enforcement officials.
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‘Murdered for doing their jobs’ – a snapshot of the region’s media
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Greg Asciutto: REPORT: More than 600 journalists have been killed globally in the last decade — 121 died last year alone. They had one thing in common. They were killed for doing their jobs. 
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Media freedom - introductory remarks
Monday, May 6, 2013
Tim McBride, deputy chairperson of the New Zealand National Commission of UNESCO's sub-commission on communications, offers introductory remarks at the inaugural Pacific Media Centre / UNESCO World Press Freedom Day...
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'Media freedom worrier' stirs lively responses to media threats speech
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Professor Mark Pearson says the lack of press freedom in the Asia-Pacific region is well documented with media in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Fiji needing government licences to operate, and journalists in...
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Press freedom, social media and the citizen
Friday, May 3, 2013
Mark Pearson: UNESCO World Press Freedom Day 2013 lecture. Press freedom, social media and the citizen. Pacific Media Centre, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
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NZ ‘racist’ but views divided over power of Kiwi gatekeepers
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Anna Majavu: REPORT: Many speakers at an Auckland City Council advisory panel seminar say that combating racism means talking about white privilege and white supremacy.
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Shameful exposé of Afghan war waste but not enough grunt in media scrutiny
Saturday, April 27, 2013
James Hollings REVIEW: He  Toki Huna (The Hidden Adze): New Zealand in Afghanistan Māori Television: April 24. Producers/directors: Kay Ellmers and Annie Goldson.
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Fairfax’s sense of gender balance - food, fashion and faces
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Wendy Bacon: OPINION: I had just finished watching an ABC Q&A show about feminism and decided to take a flick through the Sydney Morning Herald on iPad before retiring. I started noticing lots of male images. Had...
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Australian media dragons ignore biggest issue - lack of public trust in the press
Thursday, April 4, 2013
OPINION: Johan Lidberg writes that the defunct media reform is an opportunity squandered. It takes years to build up momentum for change in the media sector.
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Australian media reforms: Lessons from a narrow escape to a fragile freedom
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Mark Pearson: OPINION: It is just over a week since Australia's Gillard government withdrew the four media reform bills for which it could not garner the necessary support from the crossbench MPs.
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Australian press regulatory ‘stick’ so tough it’s a licensing 'shotgun'
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Mark Pearson: OPINION: It’s a great shame when political and commercial vested interests drown out compelling and principled arguments for free expression in this Australian media reform debate.
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Uncivil and unbalanced: The Australian media can’t be trusted to report on industry reform
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 it means a chance...
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The Fiji Times, contempt and media freedom in post-coup Fiji
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 think what it all...
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