Pacific Media Watch
Papua Film Festival back to Jayapura – focus on cultural stories,...
Jubi News
Jayapura will once again host the sixth edition of the Papua Film Festival (FFP VI), scheduled to take place next month from August...
RNZ launches new initiative to tell stories of Asian communities in...
RNZ News
From today readers of rnz.co.nz will see a change to the home page, and a new initiative to tell the stories of Aotearoa...
Papuan media groups condemn police repression over mangrove forest destruction reporting
Jubi News
Media organisations in Papua -- including the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) of Jayapura City, the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) of Papua and...
Radio station develops app to spread Gagana Samoa to the world
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager
A new language app developed for Gagana Samoa -- the Samoan language --...
Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
Securing a nuclear-free region has been a long battle for the Pacific.
After the Second World War, the United States,...
Decolonising the news: 4 fundamental questions media can ask when covering...
ANALYSIS: By Angela Moewaka Barnes, Massey University; Belinda Borell, Massey University, and Tim McCreanor, Massey University
There is little evidence to suggest Aotearoa New Zealand’s...
Majuro workshop and summit spotlight media and democracy
By Giff Johnson in Majuro
A five-day Media, Elections and Democracy workshop wrapped up last week in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro with the first-ever...
Jayrex’s lawyers threaten lawsuit if PNG music ban isn’t lifted
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby
Legal proceedings are expected to take place if the temporary ban on the songs of Jason Suisui -- popularly...
Donna Miles-Mojab: Is there such a thing as unbiased reporting?
COMMENTARY: By Donna Miles-Mojab
Recently, there was a serious revelation that some wire service reports were edited, without attribution, by an individual employee of our...
Pacific journos urged not to let geopolitics ‘skew their narratives’
RNZ Pacific
The editor of the Marshall Islands Journal, Giff Johnson, is urging Pacific journalists not to be swayed by geopolitical narratives and to stay...
Mediawatch: Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘Kremlin garbage’
External experts are poring over the "inappropriate editing" of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down...
Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or...
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...
RNZ board to begin setting up independent review of pro-Russia edits...
RNZ News
The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of...
RNZ chief executive apologises after pro-Russian sentiment added to stories
RNZ News
RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson says the New Zealand public has been let down after pro-Russian sentiment was added to a number of...
RNZ investigating series of ‘Kremlin-friendly’ story edits in audit
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
RNZ is investigating how online stories about the war in Ukraine, supplied by an international news agency, were...
‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty
By Alice Lolohea of Tagata Pasifika
Twenty five broadcasters from 13 Pacific countries touched down in Auckland recently for the Pacific Broadcasters conference.
A meet and...
Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria breaks year-long silence in The...
By Lincoln Tan of The New Zealand Herald
Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria, who quit following complaints about inappropriate workplace behaviour, has broken his...
NZ’s Media Freedom Council slams mayor Brown’s ban attempt as ‘insult...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown's exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today "unacceptable".
In an...
Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case
RNZ Pacific
The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...
Papuan activists accuse Jakarta over mounting ‘brutal’ repression, arrests
Jubi News in Jayapura
Esther Haluk, a women’s rights activist from GARDA Papua, is among West Papuan activists who have condemned a declining state of...
Hong Kong responds with veiled threat while claiming it still respects...
Pacific Media Watch
Just hours after Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 116 publishers, editors-in-chief, and senior editors from around the world called for the release...
RNZ announces presenters for Midday Report and Pacific Waves
RNZ Pacific
RNZ has announced Charlotte Cook as the new presenter of Midday Report -- Te Pūrongo o te Poutūtanga on RNZ National and Susana...