Pacific Media Watch

Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions...

TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81. He was...

Pacific Media Watch The Fijian Media Association (FMA) has demanded better police protection after a  journalist working for the state broadcaster Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC)...

Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has defended his decision to ban the Samoa Observer in response to a joint letter from the...

Pacific Media Watch Former Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari says Israel has “lost the war on social media,” describing the online space as the most...

By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo of the Samoa Observer Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt says international media are “in the dark” about the reasons behind his...

COMMENTARY: By Christopher Warren There’s been skillful work in journalism’s dark arts on display in the UK this past week, as the nasty British right-wing...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has called on the Samoan Prime Minister to lift the ban preventing the...

Pacific Media Watch Regional student journalists at the University of the South Pacific have condemned the Samoan Prime Minister's ban on the Samoa Observer newspaper,...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The editor of Samoa's only daily newspaper barred on Monday from accessing the Prime Minister's press conferences says media...

EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer They say the march toward authoritarian rule begins with one simple act: taking control of the narrative and silencing the...

By Renate Rivers of PMN News Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt has banned the country's only daily newspaper, the Samoa Observer, from all...

Pacific Media University of the South Pacific's Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, who edited the inaugural edition of Pacific Media journal along with co-editor Dr...

Bob Howarth 6 November 1944-13 November 2025 OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine In June 2000, I travelled to Port...

Pacific Media Watch Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão has paid tribute to the “courageous and determined” contribution of Australian journalist Robert Domm to...

Pacific Media Watch The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in...

Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut today with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future,...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists...

COMMENTARY: By Kasun Ubayasiri We are gathered here to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it "regrets" the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to grant the Tel...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Why is Aotearoa New Zealand aiding Israel in any way shape or form with a liaison...

Pacific Media Watch A feature story authored by a student journalist highlighting the harm plastic pollution poses to human health in Fiji -- with risks...