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In the print sector, the two major privately owned
English-language dailies are The Fiji Times and the Fiji Sun. The Fiji Times, founded in 1869, is the country's oldest newspaper. It is owned by the Motibhai Group, which purchased it from Rupert Murdoch's News Limited in 2010 in accordance with the
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in Fiji, and was of a standard width requiring no trimming to fit in the press. Sometimes, the left or right sides were fringed by cutting the sheet to a depth of around 20mm. These editions are some of about a dozen known examples of bark cloth newspapers worldwide.
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Media Act's local media ownership provisions. The newspaper claims that it has the highest circulation in Fiji and the
Pacific, with a 2010 Tebutt Research survey indicating an average of 72,993 readers from Monday to Friday (The Fiji Times 1/1/2019).
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that "his journalists continue to cover every story in detail as if they were working in a democratic country without restrictions. And he says they challenge the censors by putting every possible news item before them." The website of the
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232:. The editions, from July 4, 1908 and February 17, 1909, provide an insight into the production of newspapers in the colonial era in the tropical Pacific. The editions are printed on a single white laminate bark cloth, also known as
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was able to publish continuously articles critical of the interim government. The latter voiced its displeasure, but did not impose censorship. Following the
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reported on 9 December that two members of the public had been detained and questioned by the
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Coverage of Fiji’s 2018 General Election Campaign: Insights from a Content Analysis of the National Print and Broadcast Media
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The former publisher Evan Hannah, an
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had collaborated with others in a deliberate effort to unseat the 1999/2000 Labour-led government.
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