Tag: media freedom
Reporting from the Pacific front line
By Andrea Malcolm
Journalists covering the South Pacific face new challenges, as tensions heighten, environmental issues take precedence and economic activity increases.
"A decade-long civil war...
Freedom of speech in the Pacific: Don’t shoot the messenger
Many Pacific Islands neophyte journalists face a baptism of fire. It often takes raw courage to be a journalist in the Pacific. DAVID ROBIE...
Archive: Frontline reporters: A students’ internet coup
By David Robie
Hours after a mob attached Fiji Television and cut transmission for almost 48 hours, the University of the South Pacific pulled the...
Fiji coup 2000: Protests over USP journalism website shutdown
Pacific Media Watch
Journalism schools and media freedom groups have protested to the University of the South Pacific for suspending its Pacific Journalism Online website,...
Archive: University of the South Pacific shuts down journalism website
By Mithleshni Gurdayal
Journalism students at the University of the South Pacific have expressed dismay over the forced shutdown of their website, Pacific Journalism Online...
Archive: Commentary: The gag threat to Café Pacific
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-four
By David Robie
Judging by how the number...