Tag: media freedom awards
When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and political hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena
By David Robie for Pacific Media Watch
Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a terrible price in Israel’s genocidal war
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll -- now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
Archive: Media: Press freedom on the rocks
A feisty newspaper publisher's loss to the Samoan prime minister in a hefty defamation case and manipulation by the Fiji Information Ministry in an...
Archive: Media: Background to a Fiji vendetta
A decade-old vendetta against a New Zealand journalist by a Fiji-based media group has again resurfaced.
By Harry Stoner
In mid-1989, the New Zealand Journalist branded...