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October 16, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Today, October 16, marks the 45th anniversary of the Balibo Five – the five Australian-based Australian, British and New Zealand – journalists murdered in East Timor in 1975. Their case remains unsolved. Roger East, a former ABC journalist, was later murdered when in Timor-Leste investigating the earlier killings and running a ... <a title="AJF condemns impunity over Balibo Five murders in Timor, other killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/16/ajf-condemns-impunity-over-balibo-five-murders-in-timor-other-killings/" aria-label="Read more about AJF condemns impunity over Balibo Five murders in Timor, other killings">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope and operate under the pandemic constraints. Groups as diverse as the local branch of the global environmental campaigner Greenpeace Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Green Party in ... <a title="How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/how-pacific-environmental-defenders-are-coping-with-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
By AUT News Television New Zealand Breakfast host John Campbell has highlighted the essential work that translators and interpreters do. Associate Professor Ineke Crezee and Auckland University of Technology (AUT) interpreting graduate Dr Mustafa Derbashi were interviewed on Breakfast on International Translation Day, September 30, to help raise awareness of the profession. “Translators are vital ... <a title="TVNZ Breakfast host talks up ‘diversity’ role of interpreters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/tvnz-breakfast-host-talks-up-diversity-role-of-interpreters/" aria-label="Read more about TVNZ Breakfast host talks up ‘diversity’ role of interpreters">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Three years ago, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern campaigned on kindness and transformation. NZ ELECTIONS 2020 – 17 October As New Zealand heads to the voting booths this month, Te Ao host Moana Maniapoto on Māori Television sat down with the Leader of the Labour Party and asked her about ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern on health, Ihumātao, Matariki, housing and Māori issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/jacinda-ardern-on-health-ihumatao-matariki-housing-and-maori-issues/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern on health, Ihumātao, Matariki, housing and Māori issues">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis Stung by successive Grubsheet articles revealing how the military wants changes to the Fiji government and also revealing the name of his designated successor, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has made an astonishing personal attack on me on the front page of the government-controlled Fiji Sun newspaper today and in the government-controlled ... <a title="Graham Davis: Why Bainimarama has slammed me in the Fiji ‘state’ media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/20/graham-davis-why-bainimarama-has-slammed-me-in-the-fiji-state-media/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Why Bainimarama has slammed me in the Fiji ‘state’ media">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2020
By France 24 Since coming to power in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched an unprecedented crusade against press freedom. Facing censorship, threats from police and sometimes jail, the last few independent reporters – those who do not work for state media serving Communist Party propaganda – are no longer able to sell their ... <a title="Four Chinese citizen journalists still missing after investigating covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/19/four-chinese-citizen-journalists-still-missing-after-investigating-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Four Chinese citizen journalists still missing after investigating covid-19">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Jobert Bercasio, also known as “Polpog,” was killed instantly at around 8 pm by five shots fired from an F-16 rifle near his home in the Seabreeze Homes district of Sorsogon City. Witnesses told police he was shot by two men on a motorcycle who immediately made their getaway. The F-16 is an assault rifle ... <a title="Motorcycle hitmen kill Philippine reporter who covered mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/motorcycle-hitmen-kill-philippine-reporter-who-covered-mining/" aria-label="Read more about Motorcycle hitmen kill Philippine reporter who covered mining">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The International Federation of Journalists and the Alliance of Independent Journalists have expressed concern over reports that several local journalists have been harassed and attacked across Indonesia, reports IFJ Asia-Pacific. A series of assaults against local journalists has occurred in different cities in the country, ranging from verbal attacks to physical ... <a title="Media freedom watchdogs condemn Indonesian assaults on journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/12/media-freedom-watchdogs-condemn-indonesian-assaults-on-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Media freedom watchdogs condemn Indonesian assaults on journalists">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Commercial broadcasting company MediaWorks has agreed to sell its television channels to Discovery Inc. The US-based global entertainment company will become the biggest privately-owned player in New Zealand free-to-air TV industry in 2021. MediaWorks has been trying to sell its television arm – including the free-to-air channel Three ... <a title="Global media giant set to be NZ’s biggest private TV broadcaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/07/global-media-giant-set-to-be-nzs-biggest-private-tv-broadcaster/" aria-label="Read more about Global media giant set to be NZ’s biggest private TV broadcaster">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2020
New Zealand’s MediaWorks headquarters on Flower Street in Auckland central. Image: Google Maps/RNZ By RNZ News New Zealand’s MediaWorks has confirmed it will sell its television operations to US company Discovery Inc. The deal includes channels Three and Bravo, streaming service ThreeNow, and multi-platform news and current affairs service Newshub, as well as the further ... <a title="NZ’s MediaWorks confirms sale of TV operations to Discovery Inc" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/07/nzs-mediaworks-confirms-sale-of-tv-operations-to-discovery-inc/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s MediaWorks confirms sale of TV operations to Discovery Inc">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) have condemned the global tech giant Facebook’s threat to ban users in Australia from sharing news on its social media platforms if a proposed regulatory code to make them pay for news content becomes law. The IFJ and MEAA ... <a title="IFJ, MEAA condemn Facebook threat to ban Australian users sharing news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/ifj-meaa-condemn-facebook-threat-to-ban-australian-users-sharing-news/" aria-label="Read more about IFJ, MEAA condemn Facebook threat to ban Australian users sharing news">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2020
By Trevor Wahune in Port Moresby North Fly MP James Donald yesterday made an appearance in Papua New Guinea’s Waigani Committal Court to face cyber crime charges for allegedly publishing defamatory materials against a lawyer and the management team of OK Tedi River Development Foundation. Magistrate Garry Unjo, reading the MP’s charges, said Donald, from ... <a title="PNG parliamentarian faces cyber crime charges over K250m Ok Tedi claim" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/21/png-parliamentarian-faces-cyber-crime-charges-over-k250m-ok-tedi-claim/" aria-label="Read more about PNG parliamentarian faces cyber crime charges over K250m Ok Tedi claim">Read more</a>
