Pacific Media Watch
50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a...
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, manager of RNZ Pacific
This King's Birthday, the New Zealand Order of Merit recognises Professor David Robie's 50 years of service to...
King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific
By Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News
Flipped "back in time” is how New Zealand author, journalist and media educator Dr David Robie describes the crisis...
Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui
Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies...
The Daily Blog hacked – NZ’s most important left media outlet...
Pacific Media Watch
The Daily Blog, New Zealand's most important leftwing website of news, views and analyses at the heart of the country's most conservative...
French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes
Green Left Show
Indigenous Kanaks in Kanaky New Caledonia have revolted in the last two weeks in response to moves by the colonial power France...
Amid Kanaky New Caledonia’s unrest, I saw first-hand the same colonial...
"In the aftermath of the 'No' denying an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia, I deeply sympathise with the Kanak people's frustration, fear, and...
Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards
Pacific Media Watch
Pro-Palestinian protesters dressed in blue "press" vests tonight staged a vigil calling on New Zealand journalists to show solidarity with the media...
Journalists challenge PNG government over ‘media control’ policy
By Stephen Wright of BenarNews
The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organisations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week...
RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory...
France to blame for ‘constructing’ Kanaky crisis, says Kia Mau
Pacific Media Watch
A Māori supporter of Pacific independence movements claims the French government has "constructed the crisis" in New Caledonia by pushing the indigenous...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Young people will ‘never give up’ –...
RNZ Pacific
Young people on the streets in New Caledonia are saying they will "never give up" pushing back against France's hold on the Pacific...
Fiji’s Jo Nata reflects on the 2000 coup: ‘We let the...
SPECIAL REPORT: Islands Business in Suva
Today is the 24th anniversary of renegade and failed businessman George Speight's coup in 2000 Fiji. The elected coalition...
Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza
COMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf
Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly...
TVNZ breached union pact when deciding on programme cuts, ERA rules
RNZ News
Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has...
TVNZ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver awarded ONZM for investigative journalism
Pacific Media Watch
Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to...
UN to vote over reviving Palestine’s bid for membership as Biden...
Pacific Media Watch
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to...
Samoa’s TV3 closes channel and goes fully online streaming
RNZ Pacific
In a first of its kind in Samoa, Apia Broadcasting channel TV3 is moving its station completely to online streaming because it can...
Israeli ban on Al Jazeera slammed as a ‘criminal and dangerous’...
Asia Pacific Report
Haggai Matar, executive director of the independent +972 Magazine, has described the Tel Aviv government’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in...
Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom
Wansolwara
The news media’s crucial role in climate change and environment journalism was the focus of The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme 2024...
Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award
Asia Pacific Report
About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets
By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews
Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with...