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Concerns over editorial independence and uncertainty at New Caledonia’s only daily paper

A statement by the Nouvelles Calédoniennes Journalists’ Association accuses the French High Commissioner of putting pressure on their editorial board, which they say has given in to his demands to publish an article he authored attacking the paper’s journalists.

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Protest ends after disrupting access to information and media operations for eight months

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has hailed the signing of an accord on 8 November 2006 in Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, between the pro-independence Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers (USTKE) and the management of the French public radio and TV broadcaster RFO. The accord should end eight months of turmoil for RFO’s […]

Link to: Hundreds march for press freedom in New Caledonia

Hundreds march for press freedom in New Caledonia

(PINA/IFEX) – On 2 March 2002, an estimated 500 people took to the streets of New Caledonia’s capital Nouméa to demonstrate support for press freedom, the daily “Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes” reported. The march was called by the French Pacific territory’s Human Rights League. It was organised in protest against recent assaults on the publisher of […]