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January 26, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia, with the consequence that many national news websites are no longer appearing in the search results seen by some users. The Australian, ABC, Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Guardian ... <a title="RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/26/rsf-condemns-google-for-dropping-australian-media-searches-in-tests/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the January 4 ruling of UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser to block the United States’ attempt to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. However, it is extremely disappointed by the court’s failure to reject the substance of the case, leaving the door open to further ... <a title="RSF hails UK court blocking of US bid to extradite Julian Assange" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/05/rsf-hails-uk-court-blocking-of-us-bid-to-extradite-julian-assange/" aria-label="Read more about RSF hails UK court blocking of US bid to extradite Julian Assange">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2021
RSF tallied 50 cases of journalists killed in connection with their work from 1 January to 15 December 2020, a number similar to 2019 (when 53 journalists were killed), although fewer journalists have been in the field this year because of the covid-19 pandemic. More journalists are being killed in countries considered to be “at ... <a title="RSF’s 2020 Round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries ‘at peace’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/01/rsfs-2020-round-up-50-journalists-killed-two-thirds-in-countries-at-peace/" aria-label="Read more about RSF’s 2020 Round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries ‘at peace’">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2020
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested on a firearms charge at the end of a raid on her home in which the police planted the evidence. The co-founder of the alternative media network Altermidya and editor ... <a title="RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/16/rsf-protests-over-arrest-of-filipina-journalist-for-planted-firearms/" aria-label="Read more about RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Facebook censorship on West Papua … a “cruel irony”. Image: RSF/PMC By David Robie THE SILENCE from Facebook is deafening and disturbing. At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the immediate removal of a West Papua news items from the ... <a title="Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/facebook-censorship-on-west-papua-then-deafening-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the up to six years in jail sentence that Philippine journalist Maria Ressa faces on a criminal libel charge in a “shocking judicial masquerade” in Manila yesterday. It called on the country’s justice system to recover a “semblance of credibility” by overturning her conviction on appeal, ... <a title="RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/rsf-brands-maria-ressas-conviction-as-masquerade-amid-global-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2020
After the arrest on live television of a CNN crew covering protests in Minneapolis on May 29, tensions erupted further against media reporting on protests taking place in at least 30 cities across the US, which were continuing as of May 31. The protests were triggered by the killing by Minneapolis police officers of an unarmed ... <a title="RSF condemns attacks on US protest journalists fueled by Trump slurs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/02/rsf-condemns-attacks-on-us-protest-journalists-fueled-by-trump-slurs/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns attacks on US protest journalists fueled by Trump slurs">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Philippine authorities to appoint a special independent team to investigate yesterday’s “shocking murder” of an investigative radio journalist with a reputation for covering corruption. He was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in Dumaguete City, the capital of the central province of Negros ... <a title="Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/07/popular-philippines-radio-show-host-rex-cornello-shot-dead-in-ambush/" aria-label="Read more about Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Reporters Without Borders has just published its annual World Press Freedom Index ranking countries over censorship. Video: Hannah Cleaver/DW PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie Against a backdrop of many governments using tough controls under cover of fighting the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic to strengthen “creeping authoritarianism”, ... <a title="Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/25/tough-coronavirus-controls-threaten-pacific-global-media-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), “Tracker 19” is a tool made for an unprecedented global crisis. So named in reference not only to Covid-19 but also article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this project aims to evaluate the pandemic’s impacts on global journalism. It will document state censorship ... <a title="RSF launches coronavirus pandemic media freedom tracker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/02/rsf-launches-coronavirus-pandemic-media-freedom-tracker/" aria-label="Read more about RSF launches coronavirus pandemic media freedom tracker">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2020
By RSF in London During the first week of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing in London, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was concerned by the clear lack of evidence from the US for its charges against Assange. RSF also remains concerned about Assange’s wellbeing and inability to participate properly in his hearing, following ... <a title="RSF concerned about ‘lack of evidence’ in US extradition case against Assange" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/29/rsf-concerned-about-lack-of-evidence-in-us-extradition-case-against-assange/" aria-label="Read more about RSF concerned about ‘lack of evidence’ in US extradition case against Assange">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2019
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – World Press Freedom Day coverage on the Pacific Media Centre’s Asia Pacific Report. Image: PMC screenshot By David Robie While Pacific countries have got off rather lightly in a major global media freedom report last month with most named countries apparently “improving”, the reality on World ... <a title="Pacific media freedom and news ‘black holes’ worsen for World Press Freedom Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/05/pacific-media-freedom-and-news-black-holes-worsen-for-world-press-freedom-day/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific media freedom and news ‘black holes’ worsen for World Press Freedom Day">Read more</a>
