Pacific Media Watch
Open letter to PM Ardern: Raise Papua human rights crimes with...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An advocacy group, West Papua Action Auckland, has urged Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to raise human rights and the "suffering of...
PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre project students and interns announced for the year this week include two budding documentary makers and a seasoned...
ICC withdrawal ‘a principled stand’, claims Philippines’ Foreign Secretary
By Paterno Esmaquel II in Manila
Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alan Peter Cayetano claims the Philippines' withdrawal from the International Criminal Court is "a principled...
RSF calls on Philippine state to ‘stop hounding’ Rappler in ‘laughable’...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Philippine authorities to stop hounding Rappler, after officials confirmed that a previously dismissed...
Fiji climate lead challenged Western consultants’ influence before losing job
ANALYSIS: By Megan Darby, deputy editor of Climate Home News
Fiji’s presidency of the United Nations climate talks was an unprecedented opportunity for the Pacific...
Breaking the glass ceiling – two women top Vanuatu ministry
By Jane Joshua in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade is proud to have two women appointed to the...
RSF shines light on ‘forbidden coverage’ of women’s rights
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
To mark International Women’s Day tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden subject” which sheds...
37 deaths in Southern Highlands, 16 in Hela as PNG relief...
By Sylvester Gawi in Mendi
Local community leaders have taken charge of care centres in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea as they...
Gender and diversity research at AUT turns 10
By Helen Twose in Auckland
Auckland University of Technology's Gender and Diversity Research Group has reached a significant milestone, celebrating 10 years of research and...
NZ Foreign Minister questions China’s influence in the Pacific
Foreign Minister Winston Peters flags a stronger NZ Pacific aid policy and prime ministers Jacinda Ardern and Malcolm Turnbull discuss New Zealand and Australia...
Marites Vitug: Duterte’s dangerously zero idea of independent journalism
ANALYSIS: By Marites Dañguilan Vitug in Manila
A year ago, the White House barred some members of the press from attending an informal briefing, a...
Vanuatu Daily Post: A call to action for endangered Pacific media...
EDITORIAL OPINION: Dan McGarry and Marc Neil-Jones of the Vanuatu Daily Post call for media associations and professionals throughout the Pacific to act to...
Police again question Islands Business chief editor, ex-publisher in probe
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Islands Business managing director and editor Samisoni Pareti has again been questioned by Fiji police over an online article involving a...
Fiji police grill magazine ex-publisher, director, journalist over story
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Islands Business managing director Samisoni Pareti and journalist Nanise Volau have been questioned by Fiji police over a story published online...
The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
In Papua New Guinea, community leader Joe Moses struggles to save the 3000 inhabitants of Port Moresby's Paga Hill settlement before...
Foreign journalists ban over ferry disaster blamed on climate doco
What if your country was swallowed by the sea? Kiribati (pop. 100,000) is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma...
RSF condemns new gagging threats to outspoken Philippine media outlets
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Kodao Productions, a Philippine alternative news website, is still down after being the target of a cyber-attack six days ago and...
Hiroshima experience sparks new PMC researcher’s peace studies path
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A postdoctoral researcher who has recently joined AUT’s Pacific Media Centre was inspired to carry out peace studies research when she...
New bill would make Australia worst in free world for criminalising...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Johan Lidberg in Melbourne
Australia is a world leader in passing the most amendments to existing and new anti-terror and security laws...
Rappler links Duterte 2016 campaign to Philippine fake news ‘ecosystem’
By Christine O. Avendaño in Manila
News website Rappler has found millions of false social media accounts spreading fake news linked originally to the 2016...
‘Tenacious’ crusading journalist and editor Pat Booth dies aged 88
By Phil Taylor of The New Zealand Herald
Crusading newspaperman Pat Booth was driven by the belief that the world needs more giraffes - people...
Indonesia prone to cyber attacks up to the year 2025, says...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesia is predicted to be prone to cyber attacks from this year until 2025, says a media communication and technology consultant.
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