The head of the Pacific Islands News Association, PINA, has used World Press Freedom Day to call on governments in the region to develop national media associations.
In a statement, PINA president Moses Stevens says it is an undeniable fact that there is a major lack of understanding yet in the Pacific on the role of the media.
He says the Pacific need to take a good look at ourselves and within our media fraternity and ask ourselves ‘how can we effectively advocate media freedom so that our people, from the villages up to the higher places, have a better understanding of the work that the media does, and thereby embrace media freedom as their true freedom.
