{"id":10878,"date":"2019-11-08T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/08\/attack-on-the-media-vanuatu-newspaper-boss-has-work-visa-refused"},"modified":"2019-11-08T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:32:11","slug":"attack-on-the-media-vanuatu-newspaper-boss-has-work-visa-refused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10878","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Attack on the media&#8217;: Vanuatu newspaper boss has work visa refused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan McGarry believes visa was rejected because of his paper\u2019s critical coverage of government <\/p>\n<p>The Vanuatu government has refused to renew the work permit of its largest newspaper\u2019s long-serving director, Dan McGarry, in what he said was a \u201cstraight up attack on the media\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After 16 years in Vanuatu, McGarry\u2019s application to renew his work permit was refused on Thursday, meaning that McGarry, whose spouse and children are from the country, will have to leave Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/08\/attack-on-the-media-vanuatu-newspaper-boss-has-work-visa-refused\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan McGarry believes visa was rejected because of his paper\u2019s critical coverage of government The Vanuatu government has refused to renew the work permit of its largest newspaper\u2019s long-serving director, Dan McGarry, in what he said was a \u201cstraight up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,238,671,672,874,54,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-pacific-islands","category-press-freedom","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}