Pacific Media Watch
Fiji academic warns over media ‘climate injustice’ in open access webinar
By David Robie
A Fiji-based academic challenged the Pacific region’s media and policymakers today over climate crisis coverage, asking whether the discriminatory style of reporting...
BBC at 100: the future for global news and challenges facing...
ANALYSIS: By Simon Potter, University of Bristol
The BBC celebrated its 100th birthday last Tuesday. It came as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences...
Dame Valerie Adams sets record straight in a new documentary
REVIEW: By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
One of New Zealand's most celebrated athletes is opening up her on life journey on the big screen.
Double...
Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...
Sayed-Khaiyum blasts Fiji Times, CFL media – editor replies ‘doing our...
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
FijiFirst party general secretary Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum claims they are fighting The Fiji Times and Communications Fiji Ltd -- not political...
David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation
Mediasia Iafor
New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades.
An advocate for media...
Suspected gunman in Philippine broadcaster’s killing surrenders
BenarNews
Philippine police have announced the arrest of a suspect in the killing of a radio journalist who was known for criticising President Ferdinand Marcos...
Fiji elections: ‘Smooth transition’ vital for both country and Pacific, says...
NZ Pacific
A Pacific media academic says Fiji is still not a fully-fledged democracy and is recovering from the impacts of the 2006 coup --...
Mediawatch: Coverage vital for NZ’s democracy but fact-checking in short supply
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Once again Aotearoa New Zealand's local elections were plagued by low voter turnout and a lack of engagement....
Keep Maria Ressa out of jail, #HoldTheLine tells Marcos
Pacific Media Watch
The #HoldTheLine Coalition has urged President Marcos of the Philippines to end persecution of journalists and independent media by dropping all charges...
Ressa ‘disappointed’ over failed appeal and ongoing harassment in Philippine cyber...
By Jairo Bolledo in Manila
The Philippines Court of Appeals has denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler CEO...
How Philippine ‘press freedom’ has been abandoned under ‘Bongbong’ Marcos
ANALYSIS: By Danilo Arana Arao in Manila
Upon assuming the Philippines presidency on 30 June 2022, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr -- the only son and...
TVNZ’s media marriage at first sight – ending in tears or...
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Media execs and concerned citizens alike aired their fears about the government’s public media plan -- and...
Journalists risk prosecution under Australia’s ‘foreign interference’ law
UQ News
Journalists may face decades in prison for "foreign interference" offences unless urgent changes are made to Australia’s national security laws, according to a...
PNG daily Post-Courier joins fight against gender-based violence
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
The Post-Courier daily newspaper is one of 15 companies in Papua New Guinea that have pledged to fight against...
Gavin Ellis: NZ government media teams that breach the law
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
New Zealand's Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, has given government agency media teams a well-deserved kick up the fundamental over some of their...
FBoy Island vs public interest media: the culture clash at the...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The 980 submissions in response to the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill...
Michael Field: Freedom at midday – stories from Facebook prison
COMMENTARY: By Michael Field
Just the other day a robot guard came along a corridor in a special digital prison, consulted his flatscreen embedded on...
A publisher writes on ‘the terror’ of publishing Nicky Hager
BOOK EXTRACT: By Robbie Burton
In the mid-1990s I started working with New Zealand investigative writer Nicky Hager. I have had the most singular of...
Fiji Times: Valuing democracy amid shrinking global civic spaces
EDITORIAL: By Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
Democracy! We may differ in how we understand and value democracy. But what is the essence of democracy?
On...
Global tech titans under growing NZ pressure to pay for news
RNZ News
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
There is mounting pressure on tech titans Google and Facebook to pay local news media to carry their...
Pacific radio stations unite to boost use of Indigenous languages
RNZ Pacific
Two radio stations linked to the French Pacific's decolonisation movements want to co-operate to lift the use of indigenous languages.
The heads of Radio...




























































