Yearly Archives: 2024

PACMAS team leader Alex Rheeney speaking at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference in Suva, Fiji, last week

NBC News A former newspaper editor believes the journalism profession in Papua New Guinea and other Pacific Island countries is in crisis. Team leader of the...
PNG Minister for Information and Communications Technology Timothy Masiu

Wansolwara News Here is the speech by Papua New Guinea's Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Timothy Masiu, at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference...
Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing

Pacific Journalism Review Pacific Journalism Review has challenged journalists to take a courageous and humanitarian stand over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in its latest...
Asia Pacific Report editor Dr David Robie (left) with Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad

PACNEWS If the pen is mightier than the sword, then an army of journalists has assembled in Fiji’s capital to discuss the state and future...
Asia Pacific Media editor Dr David Robie

By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network News If the pen is mightier than the sword, then an army of journalists has assembled in Fiji’s...
Papua New Guinea's NBC News features the launch of the 30th edition of Pacific Journalism Review

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Journalism Review founder Dr David Robie says PJR has published more than 1100 research articles over its three decades of existence...
Asia Pacific Media Network's Dr David Robie talks to PMN's Pacific Mornings

PMN Pacific Mornings A major conference on the state and future of Pacific media is taking place this week in Fiji. Dr David Robie, editor of...
The Pacific Media Conference 2024 lineup

By Ritika Pratap, deputy news manager of FBC News Five high-profile, international award-winning journalists and journalism academics will join their regional media counterparts to address...
First round provisional results in New Caledonia in the French snap elections

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Pacific results for the first round of French national snap elections yesterday showed a firm...
A New Caledonian resident places a vote at a ballot box in Nouméa

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Voters in New Caledonia will go to the polls this weekend under tight security, almost eight...
Victoria University's Nanai Anae Dr Iati Iati

RNZ Pacific An international relations lecturer says New Zealand's framing of China in the perceived Pacific geopolitical struggle is "disingenuous". Victoria University of Wellington's Nanai Anae...
Pacific journalism author and educator Dr David Robie

Global Voices interviews veteran author, journalist and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism education, and the role of the...
Thousands headed to the Rotorua lakefront to watch the Aronui Indigenous Arts Festival Matariki drone show

By Laura Smith, Local Democracy Reporter Last night's Matariki drone show was an emotional experience for some of the thousands who huddled under the glow...
Auckland University's Dr Emalani Case

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson Hawai’ian academic Dr Emalani Case has condemned the 2024 Rimpac military exercise that began off the coast of Hawai’i...
West Papuan civilians in Paniai forced to flee their homes

By Stefan Armbruster, Victor Mambor and BenarNews staff An unheralded visit to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces by a leading Pacific diplomat has drawn criticism for undermining...
Former Green parliamentarian and political activist Keith Locke at a Waihopai protest

OBITUARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga A New Zealand politician and human rights activist with a strong connection to Tonga’s Democracy movement and other...
The president of Vanuatu's Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs, Chief Paul Robert Ravun

By Nicholas Mwai in Port Vila French Ambassador Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer to Vanuatu has hit back at criticism about French policy over Kanaky New Caledonia...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's court hearing in Saipan is set to make "this dot in the middle of the...
A new West Papuan political movement

Asia Pacific Report The president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has welcomed the launch of a new political front, urging support...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange steps to freedom

Pacific Media Watch The reported plea bargain between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the United States government brings to a close one of the darkest...
InsidePNG's news editor Sincha Dimara

Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinean journalist Sincha Dimara, news editor at the online publication InsidePNG, is one of seven recipients of this year's East-West...
French gendarmes deployed in Dumbéa on June 24

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Fresh violence has erupted in several parts of New Caledonia over the past three days, with...