Monthly Archives: August 2020

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders global media freedom watchdog has denounced the arrest of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Hong Kong's...

Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director,...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire's Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about...

By EMTV News Lihir is the second mine in Papua New Guinea to report a confirmed covid-19 case as the national total of infections reached...

By Tracy Neal of RNZ News A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect New Zealand's strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of...

Studying a Bachelor of Arts at AUT helped Guled Mire understand his place in the world, so that he can make a difference in...

By Patrick Makis in Buka Contact tracing has begun for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's first covid-19 case. The 22-year-old male, who had returned from Port...

By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without...

By RNZ Pacific France's new overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says New Caledonia's restrictions over the covid-19 pandemic will not affect the preparations for the October...

By RNZ Pacific Hostile media environments pose growing challenges to Melanesia's democracies, according to a new edition of the Pacific Journalism Review. With its first special...

By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesia's West Papua province has again been recorded as having the worst democracy index in the republic, reports CNN Indonesia. This year...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A medical authority has warned that the spike in covid-19 cases in Papua New Guinea is to be expected and could...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom (AJF) has called on the Malaysian government to desist its current investigation of Al Jazeera English...

COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury TVNZ have made the decision to exclude the Māori Party from their election debates. The argument being forwarded by TVNZ is that...

By RNZ Pacific A flight attendant in French Polynesia has tested positive for covid-19 - the second Tahiti infection recorded in three days. The government said...

ANALYSIS: By John Pilger When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect...

The Cook Islands language video. Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Cook Islands episode in AUT’s Pacific language video series – "Adapting to a changing world, shaping...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The safe reopening of entry points into six Pacific Islands countries amid the covid-19 pandemic is being discussed at a meeting...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea has one new case of the novel coronavirus covid-19 reported yesterday bringing total cases to 111, reports EMTV...

Police Commissioner David Manning's media conference yesterday about the K200 million drug heist. Video: Loop PNG Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papuan New Guinea's massive drug haul...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Hostile media environments in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and West Papua pose growing challenges to the Melanesian region’s democracies, says Pacific...