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 UPDATES: PHILIPPINES: KIDNAP - CES BETRAYED AND NOW SUSPENDED Cafe Pacific: 4 August 2008 Coinciding with the AMIC media conference in Manila last month, the main Filipino television network ABS-CBN ran a gripping documentary about the abduction of one of the country's top journalists and her television crew by Abu Sayyaf guerillas in the southern region of Mindanao. By David Robie SOLOMON ISLANDS: FORMER EDITOR CALLS FOR MORE PEACE TRAINING FOR PACIFIC JOURNOS Pacific Media Centre: 28 July 2008 A former Solomon Star editor has provided a rare insight into the political pressures facing news media at the height of the 1998-2003 ethnic war in the Solomon Islands and has called for more conflict and peace reporting training for Pacific journalists in a new book just published. FIJI: NEW BOOK EXPLORES CRUCIAL ROLE FOR PACIFIC MEDIA IN DEVELOPMENT Cafe Pacific blog: 20 June 2008 A new book on Pacific media is being launched in Suva, Fiji, on Monday to add to the growing literature on Pacific journalism. By David Robie EAST TIMOR: PNG MINISTER CALLS FOR MORE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM Scoop: 22 May 2008 Papua New Guinea's acting Education Minister Tony Aimo has a made a plea for more investigative journalism and a stronger commitment to "accessible and affordable" community media in the Pacific. By David Robie EAST TIMOR: JOURNO PROTESTS OVER UN 'INTIMIDATION' Cafe Pacific: 3 May 2008 Timorese photojournalist and SBS Dateline stringer Jose Belo has protested to the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) over intimidation by UN police and a threat to arrest him. By David Robie FIJI: MILITARY REGIME TARGETS EXPAT MEDIA AGAIN Cafe Pacific: 2 May 2008 The Fiji military regime has done it again - shot itself in the foot on the eve of World Media Freedom Day by deporting Fiji Times publisher Evan Hannah. By David Robie MEDIA: PACIFIC REACTIONS SLAM REPORTING CURBS Radio Australia Pacific Beat: 14 April 2008 Attempts to control political reporting on Tonga's state-owned broadcaster have been criticised around the Pacific as heavy-handed and unnecessary. Panel includes David Robie and PINA president Joseph Ealedona. REGULATION: DAVID ROBIE ON THE FIJI MEDIA Radio NZ Mediawatch: 6 April 2008 The Jim Anthony report and the other side of the Fiji media inquiry - the truth about the tribunal proposal. VIETNAM: MY LAI - LEGACY OF A MASSACRE  BBC News: 13 March 2008The name My Lai is shorthand for slaughter of the defenceless, the benchmark of American wartime atrocity. Research by a picture editor has exposed new revelations. By Celina Dunlop | Cafe Pacific My Lai archive REGION: TROUBLE IN PARADISE - MEDIA UNDER SIEGE Asia Media News Daily: 13 March 2008 Media organisations protest attack on a Timorese newspaper design editor by military police and expulsion of an Australian expatriate newspaper publisher from post-coup Fiji. By David Robie FIJI: THE 'HOW TO GAG THE MEDIA' REPORT Cafe Pacific: 1 March 2008 It is ironic that Jim Anthony's fundamentally flawed report for the Fiji Human Rights Commission should be dubbed with an Orwellian title "Freedom and Independence of the Media in Fiji". It is far more like a "How to gag and shackle the media" report. By David Robie FIJI/EAST TIMOR: PACIFIC MEDIA FREEDOM UNDER SIEGE Pacific Media Centre: 27 February 2008 Media organisations protest over an attack on a Timorese newspaper design editor by military police and the expulsion of an expatriate newspaper publisher from post-coup Fiji. By David Robie EAST TIMOR: ARMY CENSORS NEWS AS TENSION RISES Pacific Media Centre: 21 February 2008 Time reporter Rory Callinan has complained of heavy-handed treatment at the hands of Australian soldiers in East Timor after he and photographer John Wilson were detained for three hours at gunpoint outside of Dili. By Paul Toohey POLITICS: REPORTING INDONESIA BEYOND A NARROW VIEW Pacific Media Centre: 18 February 2008 Former Sydney Morning Herald correspondent in Jakarta Louise Williams, now media educator, has critiqued an article by former Australian prime minister Paul Keating in the Jakarta Post. MEDIA LAW: REMEMBERING THE RAINBOW WARRIOR Reportage: January 2008  With Greenpeace protest ship Esperanza currently pursuing the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Pacific Media Centre director Dr David Robie spoke at the 2007 Public Right to Know conference about the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and the landmark legal victory that has made footage of the trials of the French secret agents public for the first time. By Julie Shingleton | Photo John Miller SECURITY: EAST TIMOR 'RISKS UPSURGE IN UNREST' BBC WORLD NEWS ONLINE: 18 January 2008 East Timor is at risk from an upsurge in civil unrest unless it carries out reforms of its police and military, a US-based think-tank has warned. The International Crisis Group says the country needs to decide whether the prime minister or president has control of the security forces. MEDIA: PERILS OF THE PRESS IN EAST TIMOR Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism: 21 December 2007 The Timor Post has staff members who have been in constant fear for their lives since last year, when two of them were attacked and left for dead right outside their rundown office. Then again, other journalists in this young nation of East Timor have had similar experiences. By Joseph Laban MEDIA: LEARY WINS NEW PACIFIC MEDIA AWARD FOR HIV/AIDS DOCOS Pacific Media Centre: 12 October 2007 Independent television journalist Ingrid Leary has won the premier new Pacific award in the annual NZ Media Peace Awards for a pair of "inspirational" documentaries about island women community workers suffering from HIV/AIDS. MEDIA: LABAN CALLS FOR MORE INVESTMENT IN PACIFIC MEDIA RESEARCH Pacific Media Centre: 12 October 2007 Associate Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Luamanuvao Winnie Laban has challenged New Zealand media and educational institutions to boost investment in research and coverage. MEDIA: ANALYSIS OF STATE TERRORISM OVER SISON ARREST Bulatlat: 4 September 2007 A handful of Filipino political exiles have taken refuge in the Netherlands from the brutal regimes back home. Now the personnel and offices of the National Democratic Front Philippines (NDFP), legally allowed in Utrecht since the late 1970s, was raided on August 28. By E. San Juan MEDIA: AUTHOR CHALLENGES NZ JOURNALISTS TO DEVELOP INCLUSIVE MEDIA AsiaMedia: 27 August 2007 Journalists have a vital role in creating a media of inclusiveness and helping New Zealanders develop their sense of identity, says Carol Archie, author of a new book on cross-cultural reporting. By David Robie MEDIA: CHALLENGES OVER CROSS-CULTURAL REPORTING Cafe Pacific blog: 27 August 2007 Broadcaster and journalist Carol Archie poses some major challenges for the mainstream media about reporting Maori and current affairs at the launch of her new book, Pou Korero, at AUT University's marae. By David Robie MEDIA: MAKING PUBLIC JOURNALISM MATTER Pacific Media Centre: 12 August 2007 Thank you Chris Warren! He breezed in from Australia for the Journalism Matters media summit in Wellington ... his global perspective was crisp, no nonsense and refreshing. By David Robie EAST TIMOR: INFORMATION 'DROUGHT' ISOLATES TIMORESE Pacific Media Centre: 18 July 2007 Many Timorese people suffer a “significant information drought” isolating them from national development, says a New Zealand media monitoring mission. Full report EAST TIMOR: JOURNALISTS INTIMIDATED IN ELECTION COVERAGE Pacific Media Centre: 26 June 2007 The media was vilified at rallies and one journalist was beaten during elections in East Timor this year, according to a report by observers from New Zealand that calls for criminal prosecutions of those attacking journalists. FIJI COUPS: RESEARCHERS CALL FOR DEEPER UNDERSTANDING Pacific Media Centre: 14 May 2007  An Australian media researcher has found many journalists covering the first three Fiji coups in 1987 and 2000 were too reliant on elite sources to provide a good understanding of the complex crises. This reliance increased the likelihood of reinforcing the status quo and provided a “limited version of reality”, reports the latest Pacific Journalism Review. By David RobieFREE PRESS: MEDIA FREEDOM AND THE DILEMMAS OF AID Asia-Pacific Network: 3 May 2007 The many journalists working in dangerous and sometimes life-threatening conditions pay the price when the dominant free expression groups continue to focus on the advancement of their own interests. Such a focus frequently results in funds being spent in a questionable manner. By Nick Fillmore FREE PRESS: MISINFORMATION - NOTHING NEW IN THE ISLANDS Taimi 'o Tonga: 16 April 2007 Why must we look to Fiji as an example of democracy? They have lost their own royal family and their democracy as well. With four coups in the last 20 years and a chiefly system tainted by corruption, Fiji has hardly any moral ground to judge other island governments. By Kalafi Moala TSUNAMI: DEATH TOLL CLIMBS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS DISASTER Asia-Pacific Network: 2 April 2007 Reports say the total number of deaths from the Solomon Islands quake and the tsunami is rising. The tidal wave was triggered by an earthquake which struck the Western Solomons at around 7.30 am local time. By Priestley Habru |
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