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September 14, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Shailendra Singh in Suva Do the Fiji news media represent a wide range of political perspectives?Fiji’s national media, like media elsewhere, would cover a wider berth collectively, rather than as individual media organisations, because individual media have obvious leanings and priorities. But do the media, even as whole, provide a wide enough perspective?Not ... <a title="Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/slippery-slope-for-fijis-media-in-politically-charged-climate/" aria-label="Read more about Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2021
FIRST PERSON: By Ben Strang, RNZ News reporter RNZ reporter Ben Strang was on the streets before the latest lockdown when he was attacked, and writes that it feels like there is more animosity towards the government and media this time around. Despite living largely free of restrictions in New Zealand compared to almost every ... <a title="Anger and misinformation about covid-19 in NZ a dangerous tumour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/21/anger-and-misinformation-about-covid-19-in-nz-a-dangerous-tumour/" aria-label="Read more about Anger and misinformation about covid-19 in NZ a dangerous tumour">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has warned the news media that the country’s emergency powers enable the government to target “yellow journalism” and the spreading of misinformation, reports the Solomon Islands Herald. Speaking in Parliament on a motion to extend the covid pandemic State of Public Emergency by a further ... <a title="Solomons PM warns journalists against ‘yellow journalism’ rumours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/31/solomons-pm-warns-journalists-against-yellow-journalism-rumours/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons PM warns journalists against ‘yellow journalism’ rumours">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dan McGarry, The Village Explainer I wasn’t invited to the inaugural Vanuatu media awards a couple of weeks ago. Nor was I asked to participate. Instead, I spent the weekend preparing the final draft of the Media Association of Vanuatu’s Code of Ethics and Practice. I am proud to say it was adopted ... <a title="Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/dan-mcgarry-the-truth-is-our-republic/" aria-label="Read more about Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Facebook News Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and combat health-related misinformation. The locations and languages are Wallis & Futuna (French), New Caledonia (French), Tonga (English and Tongan), Solomon Islands (English and Solomon Islands Pijin), and Cook Islands (English). ... <a title="Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/facebook-boosts-pacific-wide-health-campaign-against-misinformation/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board The caretaker Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, thinks the newspaper you hold in your hands is dedicated to trying to “tear down” the Samoan government but the broader economic progress of Samoa. So, reader, are you subsidising borderline treachery by having paid for the edition you hold ... <a title="Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/10/samoa-observer-silence-tears-down-a-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2020
COMMENT: By Crosbie Walsh Media giant Stuff, after a protracted study of its own history, announced this week that much that it has published on Māori has been racist. It has apologised for this and introduced guidelines (a Treaty of Waitangi-based charter) to improve its record. Surprisingly, left-leaning journalist Chris Trotter has condemned these initiatives, ... <a title="Crosbie Walsh: Parihaka, a Stuff apology to Māori and seeking truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/06/crosbie-walsh-parihaka-a-stuff-apology-to-maori-and-seeking-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Crosbie Walsh: Parihaka, a Stuff apology to Māori and seeking truth">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
By Katarina Williams, a senior reporter of Stuff Stuff has introduced a new company charter with Te Tiriti o Waitangi at its core, after a major internal investigation uncovered evidence of racism and marginalisation against Māori. The media organisation issued an historic public apology today following the Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono investigation which saw ... <a title="Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi based charter following historic apology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/our-truth-ta-matou-pono-stuff-introduces-new-treaty-of-waitangi-based-charter-following-historic-apology/" aria-label="Read more about Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi based charter following historic apology">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
By Matthew Scott The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images – the drowned Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, camera in hand and a huge smile on his face. Mugshots of two captured French DGSE secret agents – a fake honeymooning pair jailed for manslaughter, but later spirited off to Hao ... <a title="French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was our sin?’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/french-nuclear-tests-i-bury-people-nearly-every-day-what-was-our-sin/" aria-label="Read more about French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was our sin?’">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2020
By the Samoa Observer Editorial Board Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi’s insistence on telling the media how to do its job is unnecessary. Coming at a time when there are so many pressing issues he should be dealing with as the leader of this nation, we humbly suggest he should focus all his ... <a title="Sunday Samoan: Sex crimes, truth and pride in Samoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/08/sunday-samoan-sex-crimes-truth-and-pride-in-samoa/" aria-label="Read more about Sunday Samoan: Sex crimes, truth and pride in Samoa">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2019
OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA – Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived and worked in Papua New Guinea. When I formally retired from paid work a few years back, I was given honorary membership but, to bolster the journalism profession and its ... <a title="Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/15/keith-jackson-act-now-over-grave-threat-facing-australian-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom">Read more</a>
