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February 18, 2020
President Rodrigo Duterte takes legal action to shut down the biggest broadcaster in the Philippines in what is being described as the most severe attack on media freedom in the country. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Watch More than 500 journalists have gathered to protest threats to the survival of the largest television network in ... <a title="Philippine protesters back ABS-CBN television survival against Duterte" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/18/philippine-protesters-back-abs-cbn-television-survival-against-duterte/" aria-label="Read more about Philippine protesters back ABS-CBN television survival against Duterte">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2020
By Felipe F. Salvosa II in Manila New York-based Human Rights Watch has led a barrage of condemnation against the Duterte government’s “assault on media freedom” by filing a court petition to void the franchise of ABS-CBN, the largest television network in the Philippines. The petition for quo warranto accuses ABS-CBN of skirting the ban ... <a title="Rights groups, journalists condemn Duterte bid to shut key TV network" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/11/rights-groups-journalists-condemn-duterte-bid-to-shut-key-tv-network/" aria-label="Read more about Rights groups, journalists condemn Duterte bid to shut key TV network">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2020
Solicitor-General Jose Calida has shocked media freedom defenders by filing a petition against the television network giant ABS-CBN barely a month before its franchise expires on March 31. Video: Rappler By Felipe F. Salvosa II in Manila The top lawyer of the Philippine government has asked the Supreme Court to void the legislative franchise of ... <a title="Duterte top state lawyer asks Supreme Court to shut ‘abusive’ media network" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/11/duterte-top-state-lawyer-asks-supreme-court-to-shut-abusive-media-network/" aria-label="Read more about Duterte top state lawyer asks Supreme Court to shut ‘abusive’ media network">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – President Rodrigo Duterte with the press … his powers to ban Rappler for two years challenged in court. Image: Freeze frame/David Robie By David Robie in Manila Rappler, the innovative online publisher that has been at the media freedom frontline in the Philippines for the past ... <a title="Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/rappler-challenges-dutertes-media-powers-in-democracy-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
By Denis Muller in Melbourne In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a “zero-tolerance” approach to climate change deniers and sceptics. Their comments would be blocked and their accounts locked. His reasons were succinct: Climate change deniers and those ... <a title="Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/media-impartiality-on-climate-change-ethically-misguided-and-dangerous/" aria-label="Read more about Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2020
By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta Mongabay environmental editor Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia last evening, flying from Jakarta to New York after he was ordered not to leave Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, for 45 days. It is tragic that an American environmentalist who dedicated his energies to protecting Indonesia’s rain forests and indigenous people ... <a title="Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/01/andreas-harsono-jakarta-punishes-journalists-leaves-them-in-limbo/" aria-label="Read more about Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Philippine parliamentarians to resist President Rodrigo Duterte’s threats and ensure the survival of ABS-CBN, the country’s leading TV and radio network, by renewing its franchise. If its 25-year franchise is not renewed, as Parliament last did on 30 March 1995, all of ABS-CBN’s radio and ... <a title="RSF calls on Philippines Congress to renew ABS-CBN network’s franchise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/31/rsf-calls-on-philippines-congress-to-renew-abs-cbn-networks-franchise/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls on Philippines Congress to renew ABS-CBN network’s franchise">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2020
Pacific Media Watch An American environmental journalist accused of violating the terms of his visa has been freed after three days in jail and is likely to be deported soon, a top Indonesian government minister said, reports The New York Times. The journalist, Philip Jacobson, 30, who works for the nonprofit news site Mongabay and ... <a title="Indonesia releases US Mongabay journalist held on visa charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/26/indonesia-releases-us-mongabay-journalist-held-on-visa-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia releases US Mongabay journalist held on visa charge">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2020
By Mata’afa Keni Lesa in Apia Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has attacked the Samoa Observer, accusing the nation’s only daily newspaper of being “nosy,” spreading “lies” and employing “kids” whose writing, he says, are misleading the public. Tuilaepa issued his attack in response to the Samoa Observer’s coverage of the Legislative Assembly’s decision ... <a title="Samoan PM Tuilaepa attacks Observer over criticism of media ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/26/samoan-pm-tuilaepa-attacks-observer-over-criticism-of-media-ban/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM Tuilaepa attacks Observer over criticism of media ban">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2020
A Mongabay video message to supporters of the US journalist Philip Jacobson arrested in Indonesia. By Michael Andrew in Jakarta International journalists and agencies have condemned the arrest of American environmental journalist Philip Jacobson, who has been detained in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, for allegedly misusing his residency permit. The reporter and editor of Mongabay, a ... <a title="Global media decry Indonesia’s arrest of environmental journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/24/global-media-decry-indonesias-arrest-of-environmental-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Global media decry Indonesia’s arrest of environmental journalist">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2020
By David Robie in Manila Rappler, the innovative online publisher that has been at the media freedom frontline in the Philippines for the past three years, has challenged President Rodrigo Duterte by taking the executive to the Supreme Court. The news website has called on the court to rule on whether President Duterte – or ... <a title="Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/23/rappler-challenges-presidents-media-powers-in-democracy-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Philip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the non-profit environmental science news outlet Mongabay, has been arrested for an alleged visa violation in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, after being put under city arrest for a month. Jacobson, 30, was first detained on 17 December 2019 after attending a hearing between the Central Kalimantan parliament ... <a title="Indonesia ‘arrests’ Mongabay editor – one month after first detaining him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/indonesia-arrests-mongabay-editor-one-month-after-first-detaining-him/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia ‘arrests’ Mongabay editor – one month after first detaining him">Read more</a>
