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Former PMW reporter talks to SA media on mosque massacre
Rahul Bhattarai talks to eNCA News of South Africa live from New Zealand. Video: eNCA News
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Former Pacific Media Watch project reporter...
All New Zealand asked Trump for was ‘love’ for Muslims
Stephen Colbert's satirical programme The Late Show featured NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's exchange with US President Donald Trump. Video: CBS The Late Show
Pacific...
Christchurch terror attacks: NZ advertisers to pull social media ads
By RNZ
More than 50 New Zealand companies are considering pulling ads from Facebook because it allowed a livestream of the Christchurch massacre last Friday.
Some...
Pacific Media Watch student editor takes up key news role
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An Auckland freelance journalist, Michael Andrew, who is completing his postgraduate journalism diploma at Auckland University of Technology, has been appointed...
Leading Tahiti anti-nuclear crusader Roland Oldham dies
Television tribute to Roland Oldham in French. Video:Polynésie la 1ère
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's leading advocate for the victims of France's nuclear weapons tests has...
Filipino groups denounce cyberattacks against independent media
By Mong Palatino in Manila
Several media groups in the Philippines marked the World Day Against Cyber Censorship this week by holding a protest to...
Hearts and minds – how new media ‘cold war’ impacts on...
By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch
Seven senior New Zealand journalists spent a week in Hawai'i late last year and produced just one story between...
Activist’s arrest shows Widodo ‘no different’ from Suharto, says AJI
By Fitria Chusna Farisa in Jakarta
The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has called on the Indonesian police to release Jakarta State University lecturer Robertus...
‘Not a big deal’ claim police, rejecting UN call for Papua...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua Regional Police public information head Assistant Superintendent Suryadi Diaz is asking all parties not to dramatise or make a big...
West Papuan campaigners welcome UN call to halt Indonesian torture
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Free West Papua Campaign has welcomed the call by the United Nation’s human rights experts for "Prompt and impartial investigations...
Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives
In Gangsters in Paradise - Deportees of Tonga, Vice embeds with four Tongan nationals who have been sent back to where they were born...
Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival
The 2018 Bearing Witness Project short documentary - Banabans of Rabi.
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Banabans of Rabi - A Story of Survival, a short documentary...
Papuans plan to boycott Indonesian elections, say independence activists
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West Papuan people will not take part in Indonesia's 2019 presidential and legislative elections, say the Indonesian People's Front for West...
Indonesian smear campaigns target Jokowi ahead of presidential election
By Ainur Rohmah in Jakarta
Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country’s general election just two months away...
Timorese journalists protest outside Philippine embassy over Ressa arrest
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Timor-Leste Press Union has protested in front of the Philippine Embassy in the capital Dili in solidarity with indicted Journalist...
‘Don’t be silent,’ says defiant Maria Ressa in fight for press...
Rappler publisher condemns Duterte government's "abuse of power". Video: ABS-CBN
By Iris Gonzales in Manila
The Philippine press has seen many dark days but Maria Ressa’s...
Philippine website editor Maria Ressa held on ‘cyber libel’ charge
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Paris-based global media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned yesterday's arrest of Maria Ressa, editor of the independent...
West Papua film exposes plight of ‘ignored’ local journalists
By RNZ Pacific
A short documentary which highlights the risks of being a journalist in Indonesian-ruled Papua region (West Papua) has won an international film...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Samoan politics and criminal libel – stay tuned
By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer
It’s all happening in Samoa today.
For such a small country, there really is no dull moment.
With...
Samoan police arrest anti-government blogger ‘King Faipopo’ – freed on bail
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Samoan anti-government blogger Malele Paulo has been arrested, reports RNZ Pacific.
Malele, who uses the pseudonym "King Faipopo", was held in police...
Climate change documentary about Kiribati wins top FIFO prize
Anote's Ark trailer
By RNZ Pacific
A Canadian film about climate change in Kiribati and the Pacific has won the top prize at the 16th Pacific...
Jakarta media activist threatens to sue Facebook for shutting accounts
By Marguerite Afra Sapiie in Jakarta
Indonesian social media activist Permadi Arya has threatened to file a Rp 1 trillion (NZ$107 million) lawsuit against Facebook...