Tag: media freedom
‘No Fiji TV broadcast tonight due to censorship’ – Rika recalls Fiji media intimidation
By Lice Movono in Suva
Veteran Fijian journalist Netani Rika and his wife were resting in their living room when he was suddenly woken, startled...
Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports
By David Robie
When Papuan journalist Victor Mambor visited New Zealand almost nine years ago, he impressed student journalists from the Pacific Media Centre and...
Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’
Airstrikes ordered against civilian targets, destruction of thousands of buildings, millions displaced, nearly 3000 civilians murdered, more than 13,000 jailed, the country’s independent media...
Fiji’s media veterans recount intimidation under FijiFirst government – eye on reforms
Pacific Media Watch
Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat reports today on how Fiji has fared under the draconian Media Act that has restricted media freedom over...
Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement
REVIEW: By Rowan Callick
Radio Australia was conceived at the beginning of the Second World War out of Canberra’s desire to counter Japanese propaganda in...
‘Terror’ bomb explodes near Papua journalist Victor Mambor’s home
By Dandy Koswaraputra and Pizaro Gozali Idrus
A veteran journalist known for covering rights abuses in Indonesia’s militarised Papua region says a bomb exploded outside...