Pacific Media Watch
Deadly clash in West Papua during Indonesian rescue bid for NZ...
By Stefan Armbuster of SBS World News
Indonesia’s military confirms one soldier was killed and more are unaccounted for after clashes with the West Papua...
Asia Pacific media network plans wider community brief
Pacific Media Watch
A media network publishing an international research journal has vowed to expand its activities into community media and training initiatives.
The non-profit Asia...
Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific...
Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...
John Minto: Israeli attacks on Al Aqsa mosque – and the...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The last fortnight has seen a series of brutal, deliberately provocative Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers at Al Aqsa Mosque in...
ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers
Introducing ABC's The Pacific - first episode. Video: ABC News
SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson
When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC's...
$889k-plus in Fiji taxpayer funds paid out to Vatis Communications
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji’s Department of Information spent $889,234.84 in taxpayer funds to the Fiji-owned company Vatis Communications until its contract was terminated...
Climate crisis: The Fiji villages in paradise being swallowed by the...
Video report by Craig Reucassel
With tourism back and booming, Fiji is again a number one destination for travellers seeking an island paradise experience.
And while...
Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election in Aotearoa New Zealand, but systems set...
The Fiji Times: Draconian media law gone – good riddance!
EDITORIAL: By the editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
It’s gone! Finito! Yesterday was a memorable day for the media. The Media Industry Development Act was repealed in...
Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped
By Lydia Lewis and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalists
The Fiji Parliament has voted to "kill" a draconian media law in Suva today, sending newsrooms...
Fiji’s longest active newsroom keen for ‘kicking out’ of tough media...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The man in charge of Fiji's oldest newspaper has high hopes for press freedom in the country following the...
‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first...
By Sri Krishnamurthi
Highly respected and convivial Koroi Hawkins has become RNZ Pacific's first Melanesian editor after arriving in New Zealand in 2014 and says...
Words matter in telling West Papuan news stories
COMMENT: By Philip Cass
Words matter when telling the story of West Papua’s continuing struggle for independence.
Recently, New Zealand media carried reports of the kidnapping...
‘I feel vindicated’ – Vanuatu Daily Post in landmark work permit...
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Trading Post Ltd, the owner of the Vanuatu Daily Post newspaper, BUZZ FM96 and other...
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...