Pacific Media Watch
TVNZ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver awarded ONZM for investigative journalism
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...
UN to vote over reviving Palestine’s bid for membership as Biden...
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...
Samoa’s TV3 closes channel and goes fully online streaming
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...
Israeli ban on Al Jazeera slammed as a ‘criminal and dangerous’...
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...
Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom
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...
Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award
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...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a...
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...
Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets
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...
NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by...
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...
New Koi Tū future report calls for overhaul of outdated NZ...
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,...
Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll...
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"...
Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’
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”...
200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF
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...
Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias...
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...
Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions
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...
Eugene Doyle: Helen Clark on why AUKUS isn’t in New Zealand’s...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister -- the safest pair of hands this country has...
A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest...
REVIEW: By 'Alopi Latukefu
I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect.
I have a history with West Papua (here referring...
Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst...
COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas
The announced closure of Television New Zealand’s last primetime current affairs programme seems to be the final nail in the coffin...
Stuff to provide news bulletins to replace Newshub on Three
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Warner Bros Discovery has done a deal with Stuff to provide news to replace Newshub. It will keep news...
RNZ Mediawatch: End of the news in NZ as we know...
This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of...
Open letter: On NZ news media and ‘faceless, nameless’ Palestinians
Pacific Media Watch
This unpublished "heartfelt" letter sent to The Press this week criticising its April 6 editorial about a "turning point" in the deadly...
PNG public interest journalism training – ‘why we’re doing it’
Loop PNG
Facilitated by ABC International Development, and conducted by veteran journalist Scott Waide, the first-of-its-kind training in Papua New Guinea aims to plug the...