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

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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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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 […]

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Editor-in-chief of radio station assaulted

(PINA/IFEX) – On 20 February 2002, New Caledonian radio station Radio Djiido reported that its editor-in-chief, Lucienne Moréo-See, was assaulted at her home near Nouméa, capital of the French Pacific territory. The radio station said Moréo-See was attacked by two men in the morning hours several days earlier. They assaulted the journalist and then left. […]