Fri Pres: Media freedom in the Pacific (Café Pacific) |
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Jailings of editors in Tonga ... Proposed new media laws in Fiji and Papua New Guinea with unsuccessful attempts at "registering" journalists ... Tougher defamation laws in Samoa ... Restrictions on reporting in Bougainville and Vanuatu ... An editor pilloried by Parliament for contempt over cartoons in the Cook Islands ... Forestry and environmental reporting under growing pressure ... A powerful documentary about the realities of news media freedom in the Pacific. Written, produced and presented by David Robie, University of Papua New Guinea/Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (University of Technology Sydney). Asia-Pacific Network. Permission granted for use of clips from ABC. Fri Pres broadcast on EMTV and Fiji TV in 1997. Reporters: Stevenson Liu, Priscilla Raepom. Programme made in 1996. Supported by the Communication Assistance Foundation (CAF) of the Netherlands. Pacific Media Centre 2010.
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