Pacific Media Watch
Indonesian digital journalist couple attacked at mayor’s house in Makassar
Two digital journalists based in Makassar, in the region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, have been attacked while attending an event held by Makassar branch...
New Zealand PM’s diplomatic debacle and geopolitical hypocrisy over Fiji
ANALYSIS: By John Braddock
Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama used what would normally have been a bland official speech in Suva earlier this month to...
Otago Foreign Policy School tackles digital media political challenges
The Otago Foreign Policy School next month will explore the complex and evolving interaction between government policy making and “old” and “new” forms of...
Sunday Samoan condemned for ‘disgusting, degrading’ reporting of death
Le Va, in partnership with Pasifika media, has launched the "Pasifika media guidelines for reporting suicide". This whiteboard video provides an overview. See Samoa...
Death of PNG student denied, protest action continues at 3 campuses
Papua New Guinea authorities deny a student has died from the police crushing of a protest at the University of PNG last Wednesday, but...
RSF calls for end to PNG police violence against journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is appalled by a police attack on a woman journalist during a student demonstration that was dispersed violently...
USP student journalists condemn ‘highly reckless’ police in PNG shootings
Student journalists at the University of the South Pacific have condemned the Papua New Guinea police for the "highly reckless" open firing into a...
NZ news media ‘generally hostile’, says Fiji’s Bainimarama
By Nasik Swami in Suva
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has labelled the New Zealand media as "generally hostile".
Speaking during the banquet to welcome New Zealand...
PNG media council condemns police assault on journalist during protest
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea has condemned a police assault on a woman journalist during yesterday's confrontation between University of Papua New...
Strong Asia-Pacific contingent lined up for world journalism congress
A short documentary about the work of Pacific Media Centre students and staff by Alistar Kata ... made to mark WJEC at AUT University...
Australian human rights lawyers defend West Papuan Morning Star mural against...
One of Australia’s leading human rights organisations has spoken out in support of the retention of a mural in Darwin’s central business district that...
Student press editors urge Duterte to uphold media freedom in Philippines
By Marc Lino Abila in Manila
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) is most deeply disturbed by President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that murdered...
PNG police officer accused of assault on female journalists at Boroko
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
A TV Wan female journalist and two National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) reporters in Papua New Guinea have been assaulted...
RSF condemns Philippines president-elect’s comments about journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is outraged by Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s comment that corrupt journalists are legitimate murder targets and urges the Philippine media...
Pacific corruption-fighters worry over online database future
Jemima Garrett reporting for Pacific Beat
Journalists, lawyers and corruption-fighters are sounding the alarm as one of the Pacific's most comprehensive online databases faces an...
RSF condemns Australian police response over NBN media leaks
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Australian authorities to halt their investigation of media outlets over leaks about overspending by the government-owned...
NZ delegation welcomed in Guam for Pacific Festival opening
A Te Karere report on the opening of the Pacific Festival of Arts.
The regionally anticipated Festival of Pacific Arts has finally kicked off this...
Sunday profile: Pala Molisa – a radical accountant’s eye on social...
Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, onetime Vanua'aku Pati cabinet minister Sela Molisa and civil...
Tackling two sides of the Samoa story – it’s more than...
By Marj Moore in an editorial in today's Samoa Observer.
TWO SIDES TO THE STORY
There are always (at least) two sides to a story.
And one...
Panama Papers: The ‘shell company corporate titan’ with a Vanuatu link
In her passport, Nesita Manceau lists her occupation as “housewife.” But she does oh-so-much more. On paper at least, she’s a corporate titan. And...
NZ media project Pasifika TV goes live in PNG
A video report on Pasifika TV by former Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Alistar Kata. Video: PMC On Demand
Papua New Guineans will continue to...
RSF tells Indonesia to stop flouting journalists’ rights in Papua
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Indonesia’s authorities to stop violating the rights of journalists in West Papua, where the Jayapura police prevented...