Yearly Archives: 2024
Fijian journalists embrace multimedia landscape for the digital age
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...
West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration
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,...
Palestine advocate condemns NZ silence over Israel’s UN attacks
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...
USP hosts high-level People’s Daily media delegation from China
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...
How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations
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...
Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza
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...
‘Genocide as colonial erasure – UN expert Francesca Albanese on Israel’s ‘intent to destroy’...
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...
Palau Media Council condemns lawsuit as ‘assault on press freedom’
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 newspaper sued by president’s family company ahead of general election
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 calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia
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...
Another Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza as Israel ‘suffocates the truth’
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...
Philippine Supreme Court orders ‘temporary protection’ for abducted environmental activist
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...
Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification
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...
Untold history of the Israel Defence Forces – unpacking the truth behind the ‘most...
Pacific Media Watch
Before the formation of the Israel Defence Forces in 1948, there were three underground Zionist militias -- The Haganah, the Irgun and...
Filep Karma: A political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua
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...
Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu elected as Fiji’s new president
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 pulls out of COP29 in protest over world’s ’empty promises, inaction’
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...
Islands Business publisher Samantha Magick – storyteller, risk-taker and community champion
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...
CPJ ranks Israel second-to-top on unpunished journalist murders index in Gaza ‘relentless war’
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...
Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia
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...
US elections: Editorial writers at LA Times, Washington Post resign after billionaire owners block...
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 leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at ‘turning point’
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...