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April 21, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment of “overly critical” journalists who are often subjected to intimidation or even imprisonment. The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog has criticised many governments in the Asia-Pacific region for censorship and ... <a title="Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/fiji-drops-three-places-in-rsf-press-freedom-index-over-gagging-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed by the sudden intensification of the ruling junta’s crackdown on journalists during the past three days, one month after the military coup in Myanmar on February 1, and warns the junta of its responsibility in the eyes of history. In all, at least 28 journalists have ... <a title="RSF protests over 11 journalists held in Myanmar coup military crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/rsf-protests-over-11-journalists-held-in-myanmar-coup-military-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about RSF protests over 11 journalists held in Myanmar coup military crackdown">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2020
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Hong Kong police force has charged media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Digital Limited, which owns the Apple Daily newspaper, with collusion with foreign forces under Hong Kong’s controversial new national security law, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists. It is a charge that carries up to life in ... <a title="Hong Kong police charge Apple Daily founder Lai with ‘foreign collusion’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/12/hong-kong-police-charge-apple-daily-founder-lai-with-foreign-collusion/" aria-label="Read more about Hong Kong police charge Apple Daily founder Lai with ‘foreign collusion’">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
“Your post goes against our community standards on nudity or sexual activity” was the terse message that Professor David Robie, director of the Auckland-based Pacific Media Centre, RSF’s Oceania partner, received from Facebook whenever he tried to share an article about press freedom in Melanesia, especially the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, reports ... <a title="RSF calls on Facebook to restore censored Papua press freedom article" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/rsf-calls-on-facebook-to-restore-censored-papua-press-freedom-article/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls on Facebook to restore censored Papua press freedom article">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Award-winning Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz takes viewers to the Philippines where the free press has been under siege since President Rodrigo #Duterte took office three years ago. Video: BA News Pacific Media Watch PBS investigative documentary series Frontline has acquired A Thousand Cuts, the powerful documentary of award-winning Filipino-American director Ramona Diaz about a “lawless ... <a title="Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/frontline-snaps-up-ramona-diazs-powerful-doco-a-thousand-cuts/" aria-label="Read more about Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2020
By Felipe F. Salvosa II in Manila ABS-CBN president and CEO Carlo Lopez Katigbak has broken his silence amid the controversy over renewal of the Philippine TV giant’s broadcast franchise, which expires in one month. Katigbak, in a video posted on the ABS-CBN News site and aired over flagship newscast TV Patrol on Thursday, vowed ... <a title="‘We’ve done nothing wrong,’ says ABS-CBN chief and will answer allegations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/22/weve-done-nothing-wrong-says-abs-cbn-chief-and-will-answer-allegations/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’ve done nothing wrong,’ says ABS-CBN chief and will answer allegations">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Philippines top state lawyer has filed a lawsuit against the country’s key television broadcaster with “guns blazing” but he ought to be devoting more effort on governance, says Rappler co-founder and managing editor Glenda M. Gloria. Gloria, who has been announced as a keynote speaker for the Asian Congress for Media ... <a title="Rappler co-founder questions ‘guns blazing’ legal attack on top network" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/19/rappler-co-founder-questions-guns-blazing-legal-attack-on-top-network/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler co-founder questions ‘guns blazing’ legal attack on top network">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2020
By Felipe F. Salvosa II in Manila Solicitor-General Jose Calida asked the Supreme Court today to issue a gag order against ABS-CBN, claiming the Philippines’ largest television network was engaging in “propaganda” to sway the justices in the quo warranto case seeking to void its franchise. Calida filed the “very urgent” motion a week after ... <a title="Philippine Solicitor-General seeks gag order against top TV channel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/18/philippine-solicitor-general-seeks-gag-order-against-top-tv-channel/" aria-label="Read more about Philippine Solicitor-General seeks gag order against top TV channel">Read more</a>
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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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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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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>
