Yearly Archives: 2024

Fijian journalists undertake a two-day digital media workshop in Suva

By Catrin Gardiner, Queensland University of Technology In the middle of the Pacific, Fiji journalists are transforming their practice, as newsrooms around Suva are requiring...
Papuan People’s Solidarity members protest in Sorong last month against President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to resume a transmigration programme

By Victor Mambor in Jayapura Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration programme in eastern Indonesia,...
New Zealand protesters in support of Palestine, Lebanon and Sudan at Te Komititanga Square

Asia Pacific Report The national chair of one of New Zealand's leading pro-Palestine advocacy groups has condemned New Zealand over remaining "totally silent" over Israeli...
The People's Daily delegation being welcomed in Fiji

By Charlene Lanyon in Suva A high-level, seven-member delegation from People’s Daily, China's most influential newspaper, has been hosted by the University of the South...
US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former US President Donald Trump

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist As the US election unfolds, American territories such as the Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, along with...
The Al Jazeera Six journalists

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Jonathan Cook...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: Israel’s deadly siege on northern Gaza has entered a 30th day. Early week, the World Health Organisation managed to deliver some...
Island Times publisher Leilani Reklai

Pacific Media Watch The Palau Media Council has condemned a political lawsuit against the publisher of the Island Times as an "assault on press freedom"...
Palau’s Minister of Finance Kaleb Udui Jr

By Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews Palau’s largest newspaper is being sued for defamation by the company of President Surangel Whipps Jr's father, just days ahead...
Cook Islands PM Mark Brown

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has returned from New Caledonia saying it is not a simple "black and...
A photo being shared on social media of a Lebanese journalist with his blood-type listed on his safety jacket

Pacific Media Watch Another Palestinian journalist, Bilal Rajab, of al-Quds al-Youm TV channel, has been killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, confirms...
The Philippine Supreme Court in Padre Faura, Manila

By Jairo Bolledo in Manila The Philippine Supreme Court has granted temporary protection to an environmental activist abducted in Pangasinan earlier this year. In its resolution...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in Auckland with the Fijian community for Fiji Day festivities

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says that as far as Fiji is concerned, Fijians of Indian descent are...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Pacific Media Watch Before the formation of the Israel Defence Forces in 1948, there were three underground Zionist militias -- The Haganah, the Irgun and...
West Papuan activist Filep Karma while imprisoned in the Abepura jail

SPECIAL REPORT: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta In December 2008, I visited the Abepura prison in Jayapura, West Papua, to verify a report sent to...
Newly elected President of Fiji Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu

RNZ Pacific Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu has been elected as the new president of Fiji, despite opposition from women's rights groups. Ratu Naiqama was the current Speaker...
PNG Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko

ABC Pacific and RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's decision to withdraw from the upcoming United Nations climate change talks has caused concern among local environmental...
Covers of Islands Business

By Teagan Laszlo, Queensland University of Technology For Samantha Magick, journalism isn't just a job. It is a lifelong commitment to storytelling, advocacy, and empowering...
Gaza press flak jackets

Pacific Media Watch Israel is the world’s second-worst offender after Haiti in letting the murder of journalists go unpunished, according to a new report from...
The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As a three-day fact-finding mission from a group of Pacific leaders drew to a close...
A quote from resigned Los Angeles Time editorials editor Mariel Garzavideo

Writers resign from The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times in protest over the blocking of their editorials by the billionaire owners. Video: Democracy...
Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor A three-day fact-finding mission, headed by three Pacific leaders, has wrapped up in Nouméa, and New Caledonia's President...