Yearly Archives: 2020

By RNZ News New Zealand reported 13 new cases of Covid-19 today, made up of eight confirmed, and five probable cases. The total number of cases...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to learn that Indonesia’s police have been ordered to combat not only disinformation about the coronavirus...

Pacific Media Centre The Indonesian government is bracing itself for social unrest ahead of the Ramadan fasting month amid the economic downturn caused by the...

By RNZ News There have now been 11 deaths from Covid-19 in New Zealand, but the number of new cases has dropped to single figures...

By Jennifer Robinson and Veronica Koman with the support of TAPOL Sixty-three political prisoners detained on treason charges in Indonesia have made a joint urgent...

ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste of The University of Queensland It is easy to assume Australia has a free press. Our squawky newspapers are filled with...

By Wansolwara News A 21-year-old man on Fiji's Vanua Levu island has tested positive for the Covid-19 novel coronavirus, taking the total number of cases...

By Raimundos Oki in Dili Journalists in Timor-Leste are facing pay cuts amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its...

Pacific Media Centre Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed that there are now five new cases of coronavirus in the country, three...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling...

By RNZ News New Zealand has had the lowest daily increase of Covid-19 coronavirus infection cases since lockdown began last month, the Prime Minister has...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji's Ministry of Health mobile fever clinic teams operating in the greater Suva area have screened 121,304 Fijians so far. The...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The thin veneer of a seemingly robust New Zealand media was ripped off like a...

By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take a 20 percent pay cut for the...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Desperate times call for desperate measures and so it is with journalism schools throughout the Pacific...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University New Zealand’s general election is currently set for September 19. Under ordinary circumstances, campaigning for the election and...

By Lani Diana Wijaya in Jakarta The trial of six Papuan activists will be held online or long-distance amid the enforcement of large scale social...

By John Gerritsen, education correspondent of RNZ News The second term of New Zealand's school year starts today, but nobody is going to class. Schools are...

By RNZ News Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Nine people have...

Pacific Media Watch The Covid-19 coronavirus is “exacerbating tensions” in Indonesia’s West Papua region and exposing the “shortcomings” of Jakarta government policy, warns a conflict...

Pacific Media Centre Fears are mounting over the safety of 1040 crew members - many of them from the Philippines - on board the Ruby...

ANALYSIS: By Tobias R. Keller and Rosalie Gillett of the Queensland University of Technology Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and...