Independent Fiji magazine editor raps local media and ‘silent’ USP
Pacific Media Watch’s Daniel Drageset talks to Repúblika’s editor Ricardo Morris. PMC video
Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Daniel Drageset of Pacific Media Watch
Fiji’s independent Repúblika magazine editor Ricardo Morris has given a blistering attack on the state of a “free press” in a wide-ranging interview with the regional monitoring Pacific Media Watch project.
He has also criticised the University of the South Pacific over failing to front up for an interview with his magazine after a controversial gag on a former USP professor over a speech planned for the World Press Freedom Day event last month.
According to Repúblika magazine, economics scholar Professor Wadan Narsey was removed from speaking at the World Press Freedom Day event on May 3 under instructions from USP management. Read more »