MEDIA FREEDOM
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt, has banned the country's only daily newspaper, the Samoa Observer, from all ministerial press conferences.
The move has raised serious concerns among industry stakeholders about media freedom as he...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa has dropped in its media and information freedom world ranking from 22 in 2024 to 44 in 2025 in the latest World Press Freedom Index compiled annually by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
For the Pacific region, New Zealand is ranked highest at 16,...