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May 7, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has called on the Australian government to make strong diplomatic representations to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to reinstate ABS-CBN’s television operating licence. It has also urged Duterte to make an ongoing commitment to press freedom – particularly now at the height of the ... <a title="Journalism educators call for action after new Duterte attack on free press" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/07/journalism-educators-call-for-action-after-new-duterte-attack-on-free-press/" aria-label="Read more about Journalism educators call for action after new Duterte attack on free press">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Philippine authorities to appoint a special independent team to investigate yesterday’s “shocking murder” of an investigative radio journalist with a reputation for covering corruption. He was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in Dumaguete City, the capital of the central province of Negros ... <a title="Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/07/popular-philippines-radio-show-host-rex-cornello-shot-dead-in-ambush/" aria-label="Read more about Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
ANALYSIS: By David Robie of the Pacific Media Centre, Auckland University of Technology As fears grow over vulnerability to the coronavirus in parts of the Pacific, some governments stand accused of sheltering behind tough emergency or lockdown rules to silence criticism. Already, several media freedom watchdogs and the United Nations have condemned countries – including ... <a title="Pacific governments accused of using virus crisis to cover media crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/pacific-governments-accused-of-using-virus-crisis-to-cover-media-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific governments accused of using virus crisis to cover media crackdown">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
By Filipe F. Salvosa II in Manila The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) today issued a cease-and-desist order against ABS-CBN Corporation, the major television broadcaster in the Philippines, after its 25-year broadcast franchise expired on May 4. The shutdown order, coming down amid the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, places in danger some 11,000 jobs in the country’s ... <a title="Top Philippines TV network told to close under Duterte pressure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/top-philippines-tv-network-told-to-close-under-duterte-pressure/" aria-label="Read more about Top Philippines TV network told to close under Duterte pressure">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour. By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s two daily newspapers – the PNG Post-Courier and The National – which dominate the market, demonstrated “overwhelming deference” to the office of former Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, says a new report about ... <a title="PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/png-media-suffers-overwhelming-deference-says-freedom-report/" aria-label="Read more about PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2020
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific’s Melanesian affairs correspondent A West Papuan church leader has been “invited” by Indonesian police to “clarify” an article he wrote about a shooting incident in which a New Zealander was killed. The shooting attack, which occurred at the offices of mining giant Freeport in Papua’s Mimika regency on March 30, ... <a title="West Papuan church leader invited by Indonesian police to ‘clarify’ article" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/04/west-papuan-church-leader-invited-by-indonesian-police-to-clarify-article/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan church leader invited by Indonesian police to ‘clarify’ article">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch The jailing of the Jakarta Six – five Papuans and the first Indonesian to be convicted for a Papuan protest – in Indonesia last month has focused global attention on the plight of political prisoners in the face of a failing struggle against the ... <a title="Jailing of Jakarta Six fuels virus fears over Papuan political prisoners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/03/jailing-of-jakarta-six-fuels-virus-fears-over-papuan-political-prisoners/" aria-label="Read more about Jailing of Jakarta Six fuels virus fears over Papuan political prisoners">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Reporters Without Borders has just published its annual World Press Freedom Index ranking countries over censorship. Video: Hannah Cleaver/DW PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie Against a backdrop of many governments using tough controls under cover of fighting the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic to strengthen “creeping authoritarianism”, ... <a title="Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/25/tough-coronavirus-controls-threaten-pacific-global-media-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has published an extraordinary attack on two leading journalists over their reporting of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, accusing them of “misrepresenting” a financial update this week and suggesting they ought to be sacked. He claimed in an Easter weekend posting on his Kramer Report – ... <a title="Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/12/police-minister-kramer-blasts-two-journalists-in-virus-reporting-row/" aria-label="Read more about Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Media on both sides on the Tasman face apocalyptic times as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic decimates the industry with Bauer Media NZ closing its doors and host of regional – 23 at the moment – Australian papers being shut down. Add to that, the imminent closure ... <a title="Trans-Tasman media suffers a blow on both sides on the Tasman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/trans-tasman-media-suffers-a-blow-on-both-sides-on-the-tasman/" aria-label="Read more about Trans-Tasman media suffers a blow on both sides on the Tasman">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch The Vanuatu government is using the Covid-19 to impose draconian measures and authoritarian rule by end of last month. Wholesale censorship of all Covid-19 related content has been instituted. Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) took the extraordinary step to issue directives under the State of ... <a title="Vanuatu using Covid-19 to impose censorship on media, citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/vanuatu-using-covid-19-to-impose-censorship-on-media-citizens/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu using Covid-19 to impose censorship on media, citizens">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), “Tracker 19” is a tool made for an unprecedented global crisis. So named in reference not only to Covid-19 but also article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this project aims to evaluate the pandemic’s impacts on global journalism. It will document state censorship ... <a title="RSF launches coronavirus pandemic media freedom tracker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/02/rsf-launches-coronavirus-pandemic-media-freedom-tracker/" aria-label="Read more about RSF launches coronavirus pandemic media freedom tracker">Read more</a>
