Pacific Media Watch
Media freedom watchdogs condemn Indonesian assaults on journalists
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The International Federation of Journalists and the Alliance of Independent Journalists have expressed concern over reports that several local journalists have...
John Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange – press freedom...
ANALYSIS: By John Pilger in London
When I first met Julian Assange more than 10 years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks....
Global media giant set to be NZ’s biggest private TV broadcaster
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Commercial broadcasting company MediaWorks has agreed to sell its television channels to Discovery Inc.
The US-based global entertainment company...
NZ’s MediaWorks confirms sale of TV operations to Discovery Inc
By RNZ News
New Zealand's MediaWorks has confirmed it will sell its television operations to US company Discovery Inc.
The deal includes channels Three and Bravo,...
Assange’s UK detention violates international law – Australia must intervene
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, a film by Juan Passarelli @jlpassarelli
By Simon Floth in Armidale, NSW
Julian Assange is scheduled to...
Cracks in New Zealand’s covid-proof team of 5 million? The facts
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
This week The New Zealand Herald admitted a story about resentment of Auckland's covid-19 lockdowns didn’t quite...
IFJ, MEAA condemn Facebook threat to ban Australian users sharing news
Pacific Media Watch
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) have condemned the global tech giant Facebook's threat to...
AJF calls for Chinese authorities to free ‘hostage’ TV anchor Cheng...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Brisbane-based Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom calls for Chinese authorities to provide due process to Australian television journalist Cheng Lei and...
Cook Islands News appoints new editor and senior editorial team
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Cook Islands News has appointed senior journalist Rashneel Kumar to lead the paper through a challenging time for the country and...
Andreas Harsono: Indonesia’s harmful restrictions on foreign journalists, academics
ANALYSIS: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta
Kate Walton wanted to cook klepon and she tweeted it – showing a bag of flour, pandan, coconut etc....
PNG parliamentarian faces cyber crime charges over K250m Ok Tedi claim
By Trevor Wahune in Port Moresby
North Fly MP James Donald yesterday made an appearance in Papua New Guinea's Waigani Committal Court to face cyber...
Introducing The Bougainvillean … a new newspaper for the region
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A new newspaper was launched on Bougainville today coinciding with the historic first elections since last year's non-binding referendum that voted...
Fury in Tonga at new ‘spot fine’ limits quietly imposed on...
By RNZ News
Journalists in Tonga are angry at new regulations they say clamp down on media freedom.
The Ministry of Communication passed eight regulations in...
NZ covid-19: Social media in the spotlight over disinformation
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist
As covid-19 spreads around the world, it can be daunting keeping up with the information. For RNZ, the news...
NZ covid-19: Confronting the deluge of conspiracies over the latest lockdown
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
The announcement that Auckland was going into lockdown for a second time was met with a deluge of conspiracy...
Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika?...
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent
Pasifika family or just an Auckland family?
There has been much debate over whether it was wrong to identify...
Facebook criticised for pulling article with West Papuan pic
By RNZ Pacific
Facebook has been urged by media freedom advocates to restore an article it pulled ostensibly because the piece violated its rules on...
RSF calls on Facebook to restore censored Papua press freedom article
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Facebook to restore an article that was censored for violating its rules on nudity...
RSF denounces arrest of Apple Daily founder, who risks life imprisonment
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders global media freedom watchdog has denounced the arrest of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Hong Kong's...
PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item
Pacific Media Watch
The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director,...
New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 95bFM The Wire's Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about...
Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing
By Tracy Neal of RNZ News
A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect New Zealand's strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of...