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January 21, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Arnold Belau, Ligia Giay, Febriana Firdaus and Belinda Lopez of Voice of Papua Everything about what happened in the Papuan provincial regency of Nduga just over a year ago is still a blur and closed off. It remains an elephant in the room, just like another mass killing case in West Papua ... <a title="West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/west-papua-sad-plight-of-the-nduga-internally-displaced-children/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2020
By Camille Abiel H. Torres, Charm Ryanne C. Magpali, Laurd Menhard Salen of The Varsitarian in Manila A New Zealand media academic and freedom advocate has warned that shutting down the Philippines’ largest and most popular media network would be a move toward dictatorship. Professor David Robie, director of the New Zealand-based Pacific Media Centre ... <a title="Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/18/media-academic-warns-shutting-key-tv-channel-would-be-step-to-dictatorship/" aria-label="Read more about Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – [embedded content] The Rappler video feed on the Ampatuan convictions last month. For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through a ruthless private army and a reported “propensity for beheadings”, the clan ... <a title="‘Monsters Inc’ – Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/monsters-inc-ampatuan-massacre-justice-aftermath-with-more-fear-of-warlords-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Monsters Inc’ – Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2020
The Rappler video feed on the Ampatuan convictions last month. For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through a ruthless private army and a reported “propensity for beheadings”, the clan cultivated a culture of impunity. Now, however, reports David Robie, a courageous ... <a title="Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/16/ampatuan-massacre-justice-aftermath-with-more-fear-of-warlords-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A five-member film crew from 60 Minutes Australia has been in detained in Kiribati for what government sources claimed was false declaration by the team on arrival, reports PACNEWS. The crew was detained shortly after they arrived on a flight from Nadi on Monday for allegedly providing “false and misleading information” ... <a title="Australian news crew detained in Kiribati for providing ‘false information’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/31/australian-news-crew-detained-in-kiribati-for-providing-false-information/" aria-label="Read more about Australian news crew detained in Kiribati for providing ‘false information’">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2019
By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh Australians picked up their morning papers yesterday to find heavily blacked-out text instead of front-page headlines. This bold statement was instigated by the “Your Right to Know” campaign, an unlikely coalition of Australian media organisations fighting for press freedom and source protection. A key reform advocated by a range of organisations and experts – including our research ... <a title="Australia needs a Media Freedom Act – here’s how it could work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/22/australia-needs-a-media-freedom-act-heres-how-it-could-work/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs a Media Freedom Act – here’s how it could work">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Journalist organisations in Indonesia have condemned alleged discrimination towards their colleagues by police in West Papua. Three leading journalists in Papua were prevented from covering a protest by university students in Jayapura on Monday. Monday’s unrest in Jayapura resulted in an Indonesian soldier being fatally stabbed, and three Papuan students shot dead ... <a title="Intimidation of journos in Papua condemned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/27/intimidation-of-journos-in-papua-condemned/" aria-label="Read more about Intimidation of journos in Papua condemned">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A West Papuan journalist, editor and media freedom advocate has lodged a protest to the United Nations about Indonesia’s internet blackout as more protests reportedly spread across the Melanesian region, including Wamena in the highlands. Victor Mambor and Tabloid Jubi have made the protest with the help of human rights lawyers ... <a title="Papua free media advocate files UN ‘blackout’ plea, targeted by hacker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/papua-free-media-advocate-files-un-blackout-plea-targeted-by-hacker/" aria-label="Read more about Papua free media advocate files UN ‘blackout’ plea, targeted by hacker">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2019
By Michael Andrew The Indonesian media is contributing to resentment and racism toward Papuans, according to a human rights researcher and former journalist. Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch Jakarta told Pacific Media Watch many Indonesian journalists either view Papuans as enemy “separatists” or deviants and their reporting tends to convey these stereotypes. Papuan anger has erupted in ... <a title="Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/24/indonesian-journalists-bought-broken-and-soul-searching-says-researcher/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
By Michael Andrew Journalists across Papua New Guinea have spoken out in support of EMTV news director Neville Choi after his “unacceptable” termination from a role he had held for six years. A public statement released on Monday listed the reasons for his termination, one of which was his refusal to bury a February 2019 ... <a title="Journalists, media unite against ‘unacceptable’ Choi sacking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/journalists-media-unite-against-unacceptable-choi-sacking/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists, media unite against ‘unacceptable’ Choi sacking">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s EMTV news and current affairs manager Neville Choi has been sacked after six years of service in this role, triggering strong protests from staff in the country’s main television news service. EMTV staff called for the reinstatement of Choi and for the “sidelining” of acting chief executive Sheena ... <a title="EMTV staff protest over sacking of ‘flawless’ news manager Neville Choi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/emtv-staff-protest-over-sacking-of-flawless-news-manager-neville-choi/" aria-label="Read more about EMTV staff protest over sacking of ‘flawless’ news manager Neville Choi">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk As four more journalists were assaulted in the North Point in Hong Kong area on Sunday August 11th, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have called on the authorities to put an end to the violence against the press. In the past two months, journalists covering the anti-extradition bill protests were increasingly the ... <a title="RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/rsf-condemns-journalist-assault-as-hong-kong-violence-escalates/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates">Read more</a>
