Pacific Media Watch
Censoring SIBC an ‘assault on media freedom’ in Solomons, says IFJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the censoring of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) as an "assault...
Ajay Bhai Amrit: Freedom of the press – Fiji’s ranking a...
COMMENTARY: By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva
Bula readers. As some of you might be aware, I am a member of various media bodies and...
‘We’ll scrap Fiji’s Media Act … and allow free press,’ says...
By Vijay Narayan of Fijivillage
People’s Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka says a People’s Alliance government will scrap the draconian Media Industry Development Act and allow...
NZ’s Parliament siege, ‘disinformation war’, kava and media change featured in...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Frontline investigative articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament protester siege, social media disinformation and Asia-Pacific media changes and adaptations are...
TVNZ head of news and current affairs Paul Yurisich resigns after...
RNZ News
TVNZ's head of news and current affairs, Paul Yurisich, has resigned after a review into the hiring of presenter Kamahl Santamaria.
TVNZ released its...
Post-Courier: Our capital Port Moresby our last stand for peace
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier editor Matthew Vari
For weeks, we have seen the election violence as it spread in horrific proportions around the Highlands...
Siouxsie Wiles mini-doco funding criticism does vanishing act online
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Why did criticism of a modest sum spent on a single mini-documentary made two years ago suddenly spring up...
Fiji elections chief tells local media to ‘upskill’ overseas reporters
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva
Fiji’s Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem has called on local media to upskill their overseas counterparts in the wake of...
RSF criticises charges against Timor-Leste reporter over revealing minors given virginity...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Anything concerning the Catholic Church is extremely sensitive in Timor-Leste, as Raimundos Oki, the editor of The Oekusi Post website can...
University journalism courses need to teach about cultural safety before students...
ANALYSIS: By T.J. Thomson, Queensland University of Technology; Julie McLaughlin, Queensland University of Technology, and Leah King-Smith, Queensland University of Technology
Content warning: this article...
Nick Rockel: Why are there no rightwing comedians?
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel
You’re watching mainstream media and you hear someone articulate a clearly thought through leftwing position with the pros and cons sensibly...
Sick and tired of the sickness – some media try to...
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Covid has now killed around 1700 people in New Zealand, but much of our news reporting and commentary has focused on...
Timor-Leste journalist faces probe after exposing child abuse case
By Sirwan Kajjo in Dili
In a deeply Catholic country, accusations that an American priest abused dozens of children at an orphanage stunned many in...
Media warned over ‘doom-laden’ climate change narrative
RNZ Pacific
The media has been taken to task for doom-laden climate crisis presentations in a speech at an international workshop -- and told to...
Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Fiji police have evicted two Chinese defence attaches from a Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva while US Vice-President Kamala Harris...
Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The headline of this editorial, we believe, expresses what every eligible voter, business house and candidate in the nation’s capital feels...
Controversial Roe v Wade ruling triggers intense NZ media reaction
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Some said the US Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on abortion was none of our business, because we don’t have...
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa calls for journalists to fight ‘Devil’s megaphone’
East-West Center
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and press freedom champion Maria Ressa wasn’t intending to make breaking news when she planned her keynote address at...
Timor-Leste journalist Raimundos Oki charged with breach of ‘legal secrets’...
The Oekusi Post
Journalist and editor-in-chief Raimundos Oki of Timor-Leste's online media Oekusipost.com was today accused of "violating legal secrets" related to his reporting about...
Stand with Rappler, defend press freedom in Philippines
EDITORIAL: By the Rappler team
We will continue bringing you the news, holding the powerful to account for their actions and decisions, calling attention to...
Rappler ordered to shut down by Philippines government, says Ressa
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa says that the Philippine government has ordered her news organisation Rappler to shut...
PNG statesman Sir Peter Barter a strong supporter of the free...
OBITUARY: A personal reflection by Scott Waide in Lae
Australian-born former PNG cabinet minister and Madang businessman Sir Sir Peter Leslie Charles Barter, 82 --...