Pacific Media Watch

Pacific Media Watch Six South Pacific journalists have been awarded grants by the Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) to strengthen environmental reporting in the region,...

By RNZ News Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1 to return the media company to...

Pacific Media Watch The arrest of former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on his arrival home in Port Moresby was featured today on...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer A High Court judgment has revealed that an entity other than New Zealand Herald owner NZME is interested in buying the...

Sing the pandemic away. Video: The Jakarta Post Pacific Media Watch In a bid to advise people to follow health instructions to contain the spread of...

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand's journalists have come out on top at the annual Voyager Media Awards last night, scooping a number of awards...

Pacific Media Watch The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has accused the New Zealand government of developing a "backdoor policy entanglement" with Israel. PSNA had discovered that...

Pacific Media Watch Following yesterday's parliamentary row in the national chamber of Timor-Leste, chaotic scenes were streamed live on social media today for more than...

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch  contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed...

On Al Jazeera's The Listening Post this week: The Filipino government has forced local television network ABS-CBN off the air. Plus, covid-19 is used...

The 30-minute Foreign Correspondent report by ABC. By ABC News Indepth Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party's two members of...

Pacific Media Watch The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by...

Pacific Media Watch More than 30 media freedom groups, journalists and academics have combined in an international statement today condemning the closure of the largest...

By RNZ News NZME is insisting a deal for it to purchase media rival Stuff is still on the cards, despite Stuff's owner saying it...

COMMENT: By Scott Waide, deputy regional head of news of EMTV News Yesterday , we received a lot of criticism over our coverage of the...

Pacific Media Watch Former Papua New Guinea Defence Force commander Jerry Singirok has condemned the killing of a senior police officer allegedly by off-duty soldiers. He...

Pacific Media Watch Rappler publisher and chief editor Maria Ressa was critical today of the Philippines administration under President Rodrigo Duterte for its focus on...

Rappler justice reporter Lian Buan talks to ABS-CBN's Mike Navallo who broke the report about the shutdown. Video: Rappler Pacific Media Watch For the first time...

Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has called on the Australian government to make strong diplomatic representations to Philippine...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Philippine authorities to appoint a special independent team to investigate yesterday’s "shocking murder" of an...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific's Melanesian affairs correspondent A West Papuan church leader has been "invited" by Indonesian police to "clarify" an article he wrote...