Monthly Archives: April 2024
New Caledonia: Flags and emotions flying high over proposed changes
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's capital was on Saturday flooded by two simultaneous waves of French and Kanaky flags...
RNZ Mediawatch: End of the news in NZ as we know it?
This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of...
French security forces in Nouméa ahead of two opposing marches today
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Security forces reinforcements were sent from France ahead of two rival marches in the capital Nouméa...
More videos of Kiwi hostage in Papua – warning over Indonesian air strikes
RNZ Pacific
More videos appear to have been released by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) showing New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens.
The New Zealander...
Open letter: On NZ news media and ‘faceless, nameless’ Palestinians
Pacific Media Watch
This unpublished "heartfelt" letter sent to The Press this week criticising its April 6 editorial about a "turning point" in the deadly...
PNG public interest journalism training – ‘why we’re doing it’
Loop PNG
Facilitated by ABC International Development, and conducted by veteran journalist Scott Waide, the first-of-its-kind training in Papua New Guinea aims to plug the...
Indonesian military’s crimes in West Papua and the democratic solution
By Sharon Muller of Arah Juang
On Friday, March 22, a video circulated of TNI (Indonesian military) soldiers torturing a civilian in Papua. In the...
Indigenous rights flag-burning protest rocks CNMI community
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
A man on Saipan has burned the official CNMI flag in protest, saying that...
Geopolitical reasons why Warner Bros were always going to mutilate NZ’s Newshub
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
The day the news axe fell: Presenters, insiders fear ‘huge blow for democracy’
The future of New...
Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit
PNG Post-Courier
The Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, John Feakes, has become the first foreign diplomat to visit the "valley of tears" in...
Pacific states could help ‘help prevent’ nuclear war, says advocate
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Pacific nations and smaller states are being urged to unite to avoid being caught in the crossfire of...
Journalists offered ‘radical’ solution to save part of Newshub, says Gower
RNZ News
Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...
‘Economic headwinds’ force Newshub shutdown, media jobs cut in NZ
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Warner Bros Discovery has confirmed its plans to shut down Newshub in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its website and...
Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or a domestic strategy?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described...
NZ media: All Newshub operations to be shut down, 250 jobs to go
RNZ News
All of Newshub operations -- part of New Zealand's second largest television news network channel Three -- are to be shut down and...
Violent clashes in New Caledonia as tensions rise over nickel pact
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Fresh clashes in New Caledonia have erupted in the suburbs of Nouméa between security forces and...
PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN
Asia Pacific Report
The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country's Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making...
Pacific nations gradually embracing Elon Musk’s Starlink
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Broadband satellite service provider Starlink is now being used in the Pacific but not always legally, for now.
In Vanuatu,...
NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’
RNZ News
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an "utter catastrophe" and criticised the...
Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false
By Doddy Morris of the Vanuatu Daily Post
It has been 60 years since Indonesia has been refused humanitarian agencies and international media access to...
Alarm raised over ‘wave of havoc’ by Marshallese deported from US
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal, and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Majuro Mayor Ladie Jack is raising the alarm about criminal behaviour involving Marshallese deported...
New research report shows major drop in media trust in New Zealand
Pacific Media Watch
Just a third of New Zealanders now say they trust the news. That is the major finding of Auckland University of Technology's...