Pacific Media Watch
Clock ticking for Vanuatu’s state broadcaster – 6 months to reform
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
The clock is ticking for the Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation, operator of Radio Vanuatu and TV Blong Vanuatu.
An...
Duterte’s brutal ‘war on the poor’ and also those reporting it
Al Jazeera's Listening Post programme on the Philippine "war on drugs".
ANALYSIS: Presented by Richard Gizbert
The most violent week yet in President Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines...
NZ’s Labour Party needs to ‘reach back into Pacific community’, says...
Tagata Pasifika's first election talanoa ... Labour must engage Pacific voters. Video: Tagata Pasifika
Tagata Pasifika has kicked off its election talanoa series with a...
Plans to end violence, improve human rights in West Papua ‘unravelling’
ANALYSIS: By Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge in Jakarta
Reports about the shooting of an indigenous Papuan by police officers early this month in Deiyai district,...
PM O’Neill wins stay order preventing arrest
Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O’Neill, has successfully obtained a stay order in the Supreme Court preventing his arrest.
This comes pending a review...
NZ government rejects calls for ‘public, unequivocal’ stand for West Papua
Pacific Media Watch reports
New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee has dismissed a call for the government to make a stand and address...
Stay order on PM O’Neill’s arrest dismissed by court
By Nellie Setepano in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Court has dismissed stay orders preventing the arrest of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
This means police...
‘They get up in the morning, sing their dreams’ – PNG...
New Zealand filmmaker Paul Wolffram's What Lies That Way... "by and about magic" of Papua New Guinea. Video: Paul Wolffram.
Pacific Media Watch reports
Sorcery and...
O’Neill re-elected PNG prime minister following ‘chaotic’ day in parliament
Peter O'Neill has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea amid a chaotic day inside parliament.
The tenth sitting of parliament suffered a...
Public interest journalism at a ‘crossroads’, says MEAA
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says public interest journalism is at a "crossroads" in its submission to the country's Senate inquiry into the future...
Climate change in Asia-Pacific, advocacy journalism in PJR
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Climate change research ranging from Australia and Indonesia to Fiji and Vietnam feature in the latest Pacific Journalism Review in the...
No mercy for Indonesian drug dealers, says Widodo in ‘just shoot’...
By Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered law enforcers to shoot drug traffickers to deal with what he called a...
Global media freedom summit slams Gulf states, supports Al Jazeera
By Dr Joseph M Fernandez in Doha, Qatar
The international freedom of expression conference in Doha has ended with a strong condemnation of the threats...
RSF condemns media freedom ‘violations’, gag in PNG election
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned many media freedom violations during the general elections held in Papua New Guinea from 24...
Rights chief tells Arab dictatorships ‘examine yourselves’ in Gulf blockade
By Dr Joseph M Fernandez in Doha, Qatar
A leading international human rights organisation has called on countries in the Gulf region to pay heed...
Fretilin’s win ‘victory for all’ but coalition will rule Timor-Leste
The emergence of opposition parties in Timor-Leste's parliamentary election this weekend shows growing dissatisfaction with the status quo, reports SBS from Dili.
Former Prime Minister...
O’Neill’s government loses ministers, Speaker and deputy PM in PNG vote
By Scott Waide in Port Moresby
With time running out before the official end of Papua New Guinea's elections, partners of the Peter O’Neill-led coalition...
Fretilin denounces ‘acts of terror, intimidation’ on Timor election eve
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Fretilin (Frente Revolucionaria do Timor-Leste Independente) has denounced acts of "intimidation and terror" carried out by some people in political parties...
Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River
BOOKS: By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch
It's often been said there are just seven stories in all of literature. If a new collection of a 150...
PNG’s ruling party has 300,000 ‘ghost voters’ in election, claims analysis
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Statistical indicators suggest the Peter O’Neill government in Papua New Guinea has used its power of incumbency to "cook the books"...
UPNG students make ballot voice heard in spite of challenge over...
By Elizah Palme in Port Moresby
University of Papua New Guinea students have spoken through the ballot in spite of being provided 2000 ballot papers...
Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A Wansolwara second-year student journalist from the University of the South Pacific has been included among 10 Pacific journalists who have...