Pacific Media Watch

By Stephen Wright of BenarNews The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organisations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory...

Pacific Media Watch A Māori supporter of Pacific independence movements claims the French government has "constructed the crisis" in New Caledonia by pushing the indigenous...

RNZ Pacific Young people on the streets in New Caledonia are saying they will "never give up" pushing back against France's hold on the Pacific...

SPECIAL REPORT: Islands Business in Suva Today is the 24th anniversary of renegade and failed businessman George Speight's coup in 2000 Fiji. The elected coalition...

COMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly...

RNZ News Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has...

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to...

Pacific Media Watch The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to...

RNZ Pacific In a first of its kind in Samoa, Apia Broadcasting channel TV3 is moving its station completely to online streaming because it can...

Asia Pacific Report Haggai Matar, executive director of the independent +972 Magazine, has described the Tel Aviv government’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in...

Wansolwara The news media’s crucial role in climate change and environment journalism was the focus of The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme 2024...

Asia Pacific Report About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...

By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand has slumped to an unprecedented 19th place in the annual Reporters Without Borders 2024 World Press Freedom Index survey released...

Koi Tū New Zealand cannot sit back and see the collapse of its Fourth Estate, the director of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures,...

Pacific Media Watch US President Joe Biden has spoken at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner in Washington in spite of protests over alleged "complicity"...

Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda”...

Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the...

REVIEW: By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage...

Pacific Media Watch Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC's Saturday Extra programme. Five women...