This page brings together all the stories on Asia and the Pacific that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

Articles 1 to 11 of 11 (with the most recent first)

Manila Mess
Joseph Estrada, the former film actor and newly ousted Philippine president, preferred drinking, gambling, womanizing and corruption to administering his country. Unfortunately, the Filipino press ignored it for too long.
From Asia Pacific Media Network, 20 January 2001.
> also about: Philippines, Personalities Politics

Malaysia's Press Freedom Fighter
Malaysia's 1961 journalists' uprising was the only one of its kind, recalls the new memoir of Said Zahari, who was chief editor of the striking paper and a political prisoner for 16 years after.
From Think Centre, 18 January 2001.
> also about: Malaysia, Activism, Freedom of Expression, Labor, Politics, Books Newspapers

AIDS And Media's Duty
How can the media improve coverage of the medical, social and economic crisis of AIDS? A special report for World AIDS Day, December 1.
From The Media Channel, 29 November 2000.
> also about: United States, Africa, Credibility/Accuracy, Cultural Impacts, Education News Coverage

Re-Imagining Media
What emerges when religion writers, hip-hop visionaries and media critics gather to discuss crises that define our era of information overload? A provocative and insightful challenge to the propositions of manufactured life. In text and audio, MediaChannel brings highlights.
From The Media Channel, 21 June 2000.
> also about: Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Access, Cultural Impacts, Diversity, Education, Freedom of Expression Multimedia/Internet

Asia's Web Of Intrigue
Across Asia, agents of authoritarianism used to pore over newspapers and magazines. Today, from Laos to Malaysia to Singapore, the Internet is a presence, and the various means of monitoring information are as different as the countries that make up the continent.
From Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, 10 June 2000.
> also about: Freedom of Expression, Policy/Law, Technology Multimedia/Internet

Prime Minister Sues Murdoch Paper
The Fijian government has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's The Fiji Times , saying a quote attributed to Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry is "completely untrue and malicious." In a January 18 front-page story headlined "Share Wealth, PM Warns Businesses," The Fiji Times quoted Chaudhry as saying "The fat cats must learn to share." The lawsuit is the latest in a months-long wa...
From Pacific Media Watch, 18 January 2000.
> also about: Fiji, Credibility/Accuracy Personalities

Wiring Of The Fourth Estate
In "Changing Journalism: The Influence of the Internet," UNESCO contributor Erin Phelan wonders whether Net journalism will democratize the media or usher us into a wired world where "sound bytes and headlines stream across the computer screen, focused on immediacy rather than accuracy or content."
From UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector, 30 December 1999.
> also about: French Polynesia, Access, News Coverage, Technology Multimedia/Internet

Thirteen Countries Flaunt Press Freedom
Thirteen African and Asian countries defy press freedom, threatening reporters with prison sentences for reporting on government misdeeds, according to the Paris-based journalists' group, Reporters Sans Frontieres. Zambia, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Gambia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Singapore and Sri Lanka are cited as violating a 1991 agreement to work f...
From allAfrica.com, 18 November 1999.
> also about: , Africa, Freedom of Expression Violence

Developing Freedom
The past decade has seen an explosion of media in the developing countries of the Southern Hemisphere. But how can the press advance political and economic development and also become independent, free and fair?
From UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector, .
> also about: Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, Cultural Impacts, Freedom of Expression Policy/Law

Ignoring AIDS In The South Pacific
The press was far from sensitive when they wrote about a young woman and how she contracted, illustrating the poor AIDS coverage in the South Pacific.
From Pacific Journalism Programme (USP), .
> also about: Fiji, Cultural Impacts, News Coverage Personalities

Video For Human Rights: An Online Training Guide
How to expose human rights abuses using television, grassroots advocacy and Internet broadcasting. With text and video in French, Spanish, Arabic and English, including tips on presenting video at the United Nations.
From WITNESS, .
> also about: Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Access, Activism, Technology, Film Television

 




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