scholarly journals Fri Pres: Media freedom in the Pacific

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Television Program ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Pacific

Assaults, arbitrary imprisonment, gaggings, threats and defamation cases have become an increasing hazard for Pacific journalists. And they also face mounting pressure from governments to be accountable and to report the truth. But the issue is whose truth and accountability to whom? The full text of the controversial television program shown twice on EM TV in May 1997 to mark the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day.  Fri Pres Part 1 Fri Pres Part 2 Fri Pres Part 3  

scholarly journals Behind the rankings of Pacific nations in the 2011-12 World Press Freedom Index

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pearson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Survey Period ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Nations

Commentary: Australia and New Zealand both declined in the 2011-2012 Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index rankings but all other surveyed Pacific Island nations improved their standings. This article reports upon those outcomes and details the methodology used by the international press freedom agency in reaching its annual determinations. It explains that such rankings can never be statistically precise because too many variables are at play between countries and from one survey period to another. Nevertheless, they are indicative and importantly draw attention each year to the widely varying standards applied to media freedom throughout the Pacific region and the wider world.

scholarly journals Defending journalism and the foundations of democracy

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Warren
Keyword(s):  
Press Freedom ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Independent Practice ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
Broad Issue ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Way

Even as journalists look forward to the benefits that technology will surely bring to digital democracy and journalism, they need to also reflect on the approaching ‘shadows’. These shadows are cast by three fundamental crises that threaten the free and independent practice of journalism and the very craft of journalism itself. These intertwined crises are: a crisis of press freedom, a crisis of safety and a crisis confronting the way journalists work. These crises are putting pressure on all journalists. But journalists and media workers are fighting back. The two commentaries over the next few pages outline some of these issues from the broad issue of media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region to women’s ‘suitcase’ broadcasting in the Pacific.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Pacific journalists and frontline freedom

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-302
Author(s):  
Patrick Craddock
Keyword(s):  
Press Freedom ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Insight Into

Twelve countries feature in the new Fragile Freedom, Inaugural Pacific press freedom report, a publication concerned with strengthening press freedom and the rights of media workers in the Pacific. When read alongside a monograph from the Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Media Freedom 2011: A status report, published the previous year as the region’s first media freedom dossier (and republished as a monograph in May 2012), these two documents shed insight into the interacting tensions between journalists and the power structures they work alongside and within.

scholarly journals Legal Guarantees Of Media Independence In Ukraine And The European Union

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
T.V. Zbyrak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Media System ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Media Independence

The article is devoted to the analysis of legal guarantees of media independence in Ukraine and the European Union. The author believes that safeguards are a set of objective and subjective factors aimed at the practical protection of human rights and freedoms, to eliminate any obstacles to their full and proper implementation. The main purpose of the safeguards is to create the necessary conditions for the transformation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the law from possibilities into reality. It has been established that press freedom should be regarded as a guaranteed right or a guaranteed opportunity to freely establish, publish, edit, read, distribute, publish, publish and publish print media of your choice. The author substantiates the division of guarantees of media independence into normative, institutional (organizational) and procedural immunity as a kind of guarantees of media activity. Legal safeguards include a set of legal norms that ensure the realization and protection of a set of rights that are included in the notion of media freedom. Constitutional guarantees of media freedom are an integral feature of a democratic media system. Guarantees of independence of the broadcasting regulatory bodies are provided first and foremost by the system of their formation. The author has determined that additional measures are necessary to eliminate the restrictions that impede the strengthening and development of the information industry, its infrastructure, providing real support to the activities of journalists and providing specific rules for their protection, expanding the possibilities for access of citizens through this network to information submitted in foreign printed media. media, etc. The guarantee of media independence is also the establishment of disciplinary, civil, administrative or criminal liability.

scholarly journals Noted: FOI laws grow stronger but so does intimidation

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-238
Author(s):  
Evangelia Papoutsaki
Keyword(s):  
Press Freedom ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Selection Of

Reviewed book by UNESCO Publication date:  October, 2011 UNESCO’s recent e-publication based on the 2010 World Press Freedom Day conference, hosted by Queensland University in Brisbane last May, brings together a remarkable selection of presentations by journalists, media and communication professionals from different regions including a substantial contribution from the Pacific. This publication serves as a reminder of the importance of journalists’ work, the risks they face and the urgency of securing their safety and punishing those who violate their right to report freely and safely.

scholarly journals Noted: Dual purpose resource for media freedom

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-217
Author(s):  
Mark Pearson
Keyword(s):  
International Federation ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
The World ◽  
Counter Argument ◽  
Freedom House

"Just how many surveys of the world press freedom do we need? One view is that there can never be enough because, every time Freedom House, Reporters San Frontiéres, the International Federation of Journalists or the Committee to Protect Journalists  releases one, the message of media freedom is disseminated. Of course, the counter argument is that the same message loses its impact when so many competing non-governmental organisations announce their various lists derived form different formulae..."

scholarly journals Review: The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Mass Killing ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Town

Robie, D. (2015). The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 197-199. Review of The New Censorship: Inside the global battle for press freedom, by Joel Simon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 236 pp. ISBN978-0-231-16064-3.One of the ironies of the digital revolution is that there is an illusion of growing freedom of expression and information in the world, when in fact the reverse is true. These are bleak times with growing numbers of journalists being murdered with impunity, from the Philippines to Somalia and Syria. The world’s worst mass killing of journalists was the so-called Maguindanao, or Ampatuan (named after the town whose dynastic family ordered the killings), massacre when 32 journalists were brutally murdered in the Philippines in November 2009.

scholarly journals Key Melanesian media freedom challenges: Climate crisis, internet freedoms, fake news and West Papua

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Climate Crisis

Melanesia, and the microstates of the Pacific generally, face the growing influence of authoritarian and secretive values in the region—projected by both China and Indonesia and with behind-the-scenes manipulation. There is also a growing tendency for Pacific governments to use unconstitutional, bureaucratic or legal tools to silence media and questioning journalists. Frequent threats of closing Facebook and other social media platforms and curbs on online freedom of information are another issue. While Pacific news media face these challenges, their support networks are being shaken by the decline of Australia as a so-called ‘liberal democracy’ and through the undermining of its traditional region-wide public interest media values with the axing of Radio Australia and Australia Network television. Reporting climate change is the Pacific’s most critical challenge while Australian intransigence over the issue is subverting the region’s media. This article engages with and examines these challenges and also concludes that the case of West Papua is a vitally important self-determination issue that left unresolved threatens the security of the region.

Measuring freedom: Rethinking ranking methodologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Aslı Tunç
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Freedom House

This article is a critical analysis of the methodology of press freedom indices of two independent international watchdog organizations, Freedom House (<uri xlink:href="https://freedomhouse.org/">https://freedomhouse.org/</uri>) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF-<uri xlink:href="https://rsf.org/en">https://rsf.org/en</uri>). The author argues that press freedom indices tend to offer us a homogenous view of mass media, which facilitates comparisons between countries by masking significant differences and discusses the challenges of dealing with the difference in the conceptualization of media freedom. As a social scientist, she also brings validity and reliability issues, which are crucial in quantitative research methods, into the discussion.

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