Tonga media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Tonga media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Tongan journalists are confronted with a new type of challenge to media freedom, following a threat incident

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

By Atereano Mateariki, RNZ Pacific journalist Previously it was reporting on governments or politics that brought trouble for Tonga’s journalists — now it’s reporting on drugs or gangs. Tongan journalists are coming to terms with new pressures on media freedom over reporting on the country’s drug crisis, and the role of gangs in it. This comes after a journalist at Kele’a Publications was threatened at gunpoint in Nuku’alofa, following reporting…