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November 28, 2018
Two global media freedom advocacy groups accuse the Philippine government of trying to “silence” Rappler and its journalists. Image: Rappler Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have written a joint open letter to the prosecutor-general of the Philippines calling for an end to the orchestrated harassment ... <a title="Stop harassing Rappler, media advocacy groups tell Duterte" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/28/stop-harassing-rappler-media-advocacy-groups-tell-duterte/" aria-label="Read more about Stop harassing Rappler, media advocacy groups tell Duterte">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2018
Part of the cover of the latest Pacific Journalism Review. Image: © Fernando G Sepe Jr/ABS-CBN Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in research published in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review on the trauma ... <a title="Trauma research on TV journalists covering killings revealed in Pacific Journalism Review" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/27/trauma-research-on-tv-journalists-covering-killings-revealed-in-pacific-journalism-review/" aria-label="Read more about Trauma research on TV journalists covering killings revealed in Pacific Journalism Review">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2018
Scott Waide reporting in a Papua New Guinea village … image from his blog My Land, My Country. COMMENT: By Scott Waide, in an open letter posted on his blog after he was reinstated by EMTV today following suspension for broadcasting an APEC news item on November 17 criticising wasteful government spending. Dear all, Over ... <a title="Scott Waide reinstated – ‘thank you’ message from EMTV journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/27/scott-waide-reinstated-thank-you-message-from-emtv-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide reinstated – ‘thank you’ message from EMTV journalist">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2018
The Bougainville flag … a critical year for the referendum on independence next year. Image: Bougainville News By RNZ Pacific The Bougainville President, John Momis, says he has been assured by Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, that the absence of a vital grant from the 2019 Budget was an “administrative error”. Both leaders ... <a title="PM blames Bougainville missing budget on ‘administrative error’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/26/pm-blames-bougainville-missing-budget-on-administrative-error/" aria-label="Read more about PM blames Bougainville missing budget on ‘administrative error’">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2018
Revenge against one of PNG’s leading journalists Scott Waide, says opposition MP for Madang = Bryan Kramer. Image: Bryan Kramer Facebook COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, MP for Madang Papua New Guinea’s O’Neill government has taken revenge against senior EMTV Reporter Scott Waide, who was suspended over his broadcasting of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s ... <a title="Bryan Kramer: Who was culprit behind O’Neill government revenge on Waide?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/26/bryan-kramer-who-was-culprit-behind-oneill-government-revenge-on-waide/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Kramer: Who was culprit behind O’Neill government revenge on Waide?">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2018
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as she appeared on the “negative” EMTV News during APEC – she refused to ride in a Maserati luxury sedan and criticised the funding. Image: PMC screenshot from EMTV News Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Media Council of PNG has called on the board and management of Media NiuginiLimited to ... <a title="PNG Media Council says bring back Waide – stop attacking free media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/25/png-media-council-says-bring-back-waide-stop-attacking-free-media/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Media Council says bring back Waide – stop attacking free media">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2018
Papua New Guinean journalists at APEC 2018 … “freedom of speech and expression are a fundamental right … and entrenched in the constitution”. Image: Loop PNG OPINION: By Dr Lino Jeremaih Tom, MP for Wabag The suspension of EMTV deputy news editor Scott Waide has brought us to a new low in Papua New Guinea’s ... <a title="Open letter from MP for Wabag: EMTV move ‘dictatorship before our eyes’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/25/open-letter-from-mp-for-wabag-emtv-move-dictatorship-before-our-eyes/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter from MP for Wabag: EMTV move ‘dictatorship before our eyes’">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2018
The Maserati item from New Zealand’s Newshub screened on EMTV News on 17 November 2018. By Vincent Moses in Port Moresby The Papua New Guinean state-owned media company EMTV has been forced to act against its wishes and media ethics to suspend one of the country’s best reporters, their award-winning Lae bureau chief and senior ... <a title="EMTV suspends senior journalist Scott Waide over NZ Maserati news story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/25/emtv-suspends-senior-journalist-scott-waide-over-nz-maserati-news-story/" aria-label="Read more about EMTV suspends senior journalist Scott Waide over NZ Maserati news story">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2018
Covering the Pacific … “we might even learn a thing or two about the nations and the region within which we live .” Image: Shane McLeod/The Interpreter ANALYSIS: By Mary-Louise O’Callaghan It is both apt and overdue that veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney was last night awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the 2018 ... <a title="Mary-Louise O’Callaghan: Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/24/mary-louise-ocallaghan-time-we-heard-the-pacifics-take-on-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Mary-Louise O’Callaghan: Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2018
Parliament Haus in Waigani … scene of the reported assault against PNGFM journalists. Image Scott Waide’s blog Scott Waide’s blog highlights an open letter by Genesis Ketan, director of news, PNGFM: As director of News for PNGFM, I am very disappointed at the manner at which two of my reporters – one male and one ... <a title="Scott Waide: PNGFM news boss calls for investigations, penalties for troops who assaulted journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/24/scott-waide-pngfm-news-boss-calls-for-investigations-penalties-for-troops-who-assaulted-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: PNGFM news boss calls for investigations, penalties for troops who assaulted journalists">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2018
By Richard M. Nanua and Royson Willie in Port Vila Vanuatu’s Magistrates Court has remanded a Bangladeshi couple over what is alleged to be the biggest human trafficking and slavery case in Vanuatu and the region. Sekdah Somon and Buxoo Nabilah Bibi – the owners of the “Mr Price” home and furniture store in Vanuatu ... <a title="Couple remanded in big Vanuatu human trafficking, slavery case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/23/couple-remanded-in-big-vanuatu-human-trafficking-slavery-case/" aria-label="Read more about Couple remanded in big Vanuatu human trafficking, slavery case">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping in Port Moresby … accused over “new media control strategy” in South Pacific. Image: SCMP Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the discrimination practised by the Chinese delegation against local and international media at the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) held last weekend in Papua ... <a title="RSF condemns Chinese exclusion of journalists at APEC side events" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/rsf-condemns-chinese-exclusion-of-journalists-at-apec-side-events/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Chinese exclusion of journalists at APEC side events">Read more</a>
