Pacific Media Watch

Pacific Media Watch Citizens, journalists, lawyers and international media personalities have joined together in an international open letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, calling...

Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre's weekly radio programme Southern Cross made its 2020 debut today featuring Sri Krishnamurthi talking to 95bFM presenter Sherry...

OPINION: SunStar editorial in Cebu So it goes. Nineteen senators in the Philippines Senate have approved on the third and final reading of Senate Bill...

By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch Authorities and the media alike knew it was just a matter of time before New Zealand had its first...

By RSF in London During the first week of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing in London, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was concerned by...

Pacific Media Watch The ABC’s decision today to end the appeal process against the warrant used to raid its offices demonstrates that the system is...

Andy Ayamiseba died a few days ago. While the West Papuan was loved, admired and supported in Vanuatu, he fought tirelessly to win a...

Pacific Media Watch An Australian federal court decision upholding the legality of the police raid on the Sydney headquarters of the national public broadcaster ABC...

Pacific Media Watch The Philippines top state lawyer has filed a lawsuit against the country’s key television broadcaster with “guns blazing” but he ought to...

President Rodrigo Duterte takes legal action to shut down the biggest broadcaster in the Philippines in what is being described as the most severe...

By Devina Halim in Jakarta Lawyer and human rights activist Veronica Koman says Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD "garbage" comment...

Pacific Media Watch Pacific human rights activists have personally handed Indonesian President Joko Widodo a protest letter which includes a list of deaths and political...

Pacific Media Watch The World Health Organisation has pledged to "hit hard" against the deadly coronavirus while saying there is hope and "we are not defenceless". WHO...

By RNZ Pacific The French nuclear compensation commission, CIVEN, says it will soon report on how to respond to last month's Supreme Court reinstatement of...

By Elaine Pearson Indonesian President Joko Widodo (known as Jokowi) addressed Australia’s Parliament yesterday. Indonesia is often referred to as the democratic success story of Southeast...

Pacific Media Watch The Australian government should break its silence and raise human rights violations in West Papua with visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo today,...

A video made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pacific Journalism Review in 2014. Video: Sasya Wreksono/PMC Pacific Media Watch Tuwhera, the open access repository and...

BACKGROUNDER: By Oiwan Lam Former human rights lawyer and famous citizen journalist Chen Qiushi arrived in Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on...

By RNZ Pacific Thirty Pacific islanders are being quarantined at a New Zealand military base, following their evacuation from China. They are among 193 evacuees who...

By M Yusuf Manurung in Jakarta An East Jakarta Metropolitan District police chief has given prosecution evidence at the trial this week of six Papuan...

Al Jazeera's Inside Story features the global coronavirus health emergency. BACKGROUNDER: By Global Voices What started at a seafood market as a local health issue...

Pacific Media Watch The Media Council of PNG has called on all state agencies involved in policing and securing the country's borders and people against...