Tag: Timor-Leste
NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by global decline
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand has slumped to an unprecedented 19th place in the annual Reporters Without Borders 2024 World Press Freedom Index survey released...
Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to...
Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition
ABC Pacific Beat
Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country’s first president may contest the count after his party...
Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy
ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler and Andrea Fahey
Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding on 65 members of Parliament to represent...
Journalism education ‘truth’ challenges: An age of growing hate, intolerance and disinformation
By David Robie in Pacific Journalism Review
This keynote commentary at the Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) conference with the theme Change, Adaptation...
New free press book a must read for Pacific ‘media spoilers’
David Robie talks to Te Waha Nui's Monique McKenzie about the new book
By Patrick Craddock in Suva
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and...