Pacific Media Watch
Today FM hosts abruptly taken off air and told ‘play music’...
RNZ News
The Mediaworks' radio station Today FM abandoned scheduling today when presenters broke from programming to question the future of their employer.
Broadcasters told their...
Bike assailant ‘identity known’, says Green Party co-leader
Radio Waatea
Greens' co-leader Marama Davidson believes she knows who was riding the motorbike that hit her during a protest against British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay...
PNG’s Masiu denies ‘control of media’ but calls for ‘accountability’
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Communication Minister Timothy Masiu has hit back at recent reports termed as "inaccurate" over the control of media in...
Fiji to scrap ‘dead in water’ media law with pledge to...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The Fiji government has announced it will repeal the controversial Media Industry Development Act...
Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The Fiji government is signalling that it will not completely tear down the country's...
Repeal Fiji’s media law and start with ‘clean slate’, says CFL...
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
Communications Fiji Ltd (CFL) chair William Parkinson has called for a repeal of Fiji's Media Industry Development Act 2010 and...
New Caledonia’s lone daily newspaper ceases publication after 52 years
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's only daily newspaper, Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes, has folded after the commercial court accepted the publishing company's request for its liquidation.
The court...
PNG draft media development policy ‘contemptuous’ of public interest
Asia Pacific Media Network's chair Dr Heather Devere, deputy chair Dr David Robie and Pacific Journalism Review editor Dr Philip Cass last month made...
Fiji police apologise for West Papua politics ‘mix-up’ before Reclaim the...
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji police have apologised for "miscommunication" that led to an incident before the Reclaim the Night march last night that almost led...
Fiji’s Attorney-General takes over Richard Naidu ‘contempt’ case
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva
The Fiji Attorney-General’s office has terminated the instructions of lawyers Devanesh Sharma and Gul Fatima in the contempt of court...
Top PNG journalist challenges state media ‘regulation’ plans at stakeholder consultation
The National in Port Moresby
Senior Papua New Guinean television journalist and columnist Scott Waide has challenged the government on what it actually wants to...
Mediawatch: Signal to noise – is NZ’s AM radio really under...
RNZ Mediawatch
Old-fashioned AM radio was an information lifeline for many in Aotearoa New Zealand during last month's Cyclone Gabrielle when other sources wilted without...
Free media ‘underpins justice’ message to PNG government by united media
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinean government has been bluntly and frankly reminded to leave mainstream media alone as a long...
PNG Post-Courier: Let’s talk first on media policy and transparency
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
The discussions on Papua New Guinea's new draft media development policy will come to the fore today when the media industry presents...
RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an...
RNZ News
It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you...
‘Chilling effect on journalism’ – Fiji academic warns PNG against media...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital and social media journalist, and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist and Pacific Waves presenter
A Pacific journalism academic has...
PNG’s proposed policy could lead to government control of the press
ANALYSIS: By Mong Palatino
Various stakeholders have warned that the draft National Media Development Policy released by Papua New Guinea’s Department of Information and Communications...
‘Leave media alone – let them do their job,’ Ipatas tells...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Enga Governor Sir Peter Ipatas has told the Papua New Guinean government and national leaders to allow the media...
Information chief defends PNG’s draft policy as ‘strengthening’ media
The National in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's draft National Media Development Policy is not intended to give the government power to control the media...
PNG government must withdraw ‘media control’ policy, says RSF
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Papua New Guinea’s government to immediately withdraw a draconian draft media “development” policy that has...
Inside PNG: Media must be watchdog not government-controlled
EDITORIAL: Inside PNG
Papua New Guinea's Communications Minister, Timothy Masiu, has proposed a new policy that, if implemented, will affect the constitutional rights of freedom...
New PNG media policy will lead to government control of news...
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide in Port Moresby
The new media development policy being proposed by the Papua New Guinea Communications Minister, Timothy Masiu, could lead...