Sri Krishnamurthi
Sri Krishnamurthi was the Pacific Media Centre's 2019-20 Pacific Media Watch freedom project contributing editor. Originally from Fiji, Sri has worked in the media as a journalist and in communications in New Zealand for more than 20 years. Sri is a graduate of the Postgraduate Diploma in Communications (Digital Media) course at AUT. He also has an MBA (Massey University).
Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
Six years on from being appointed head of the Pacific Community, Director-General Collin Tukuitonga, a boy...
Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Centre
A New Zealand youth MP Shaneel Lal is speaking out against education policies that exclude some Pacific Island...
How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
“Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South...
Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
Pacific health specialist Dr Collin Tukuitonga is worried that the latest community transmission of covid-19 in Aotearoa New...
Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka...
An interview with filmmaker Anna Marbrook on the making of Loimata. Video: Tagata Pasifika/Sunpix
DOCUMENTARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, who talks to Jim Marbrook about the...
Eco-tourism is the way of the post-covid future for the ‘blue’...
A SPREP webinar about the Blue Pacific vision for the peoples of the Oceania region.
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
“Our journey...
Tragic death of Jenelyn Kennedy and media ethics aired on Southern...
Pacific Media Watch
Host Sherry Zhang interviewed the director of the Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, about the tragic life and death of Jenelyn...
Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Miss Universe NZ 2019 beauty queen Diamond Langi is being trolled by thousands of Indonesians on...
Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story on...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim...
Students and staff delighted with reinstatement of USP’s Ahluwalia
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Students sang with joy outside vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia's home at the University of the South...
Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today.
Auckland's Aotea...
Forum’s chief Meg Taylor backs Nauru call for special meeting on...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, is the latest figure to...
NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month...
Southern Cross: Buyout offer saves AAP and gives Pacific a breather
Pacific Media Watch
A reprieve for the newsagency Australian Associated Press (AAP) is featured today on Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross segment on Radio 95bFM.
An...
Australian ‘soft power’ push in Pacific with $17m free TV deal...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Homegrown Australian television shows to the tune of $17.1 million will be broadcast in the Pacific...
West Papua author warns conflict is ‘re-igniting’ with new weapons, youth
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Australian war correspondent and investigative journalist John Martinkus warns the West Papuan conflict is "reigniting" and...
Gallery: The virus shackles are off … but where was the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch hops on a bus from Onehunga to Auckland to check out day one of New...
Media monopoly: Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over...
COMMENT: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Was New Zealand media giant NZME trying to pull a “fast one” when the company...
How George Simpkin taught Fiji the ruck-and-run game for World Cup
OBITUARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Before Ben Ryan (2016 Fiji gold medal winners at the Rio Olympics) there was George...
Eco-tourism major key to ‘tricky’ Pacific economic reset, says Leary
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
As New Zealand prepares to go to alert level 2 in the...
Pressure on Beaumont to investigate homophobic slurs by Fiji rugby chief
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The pressure goes on re-elected World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont to investigate Fiji Rugby Union chief...
PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report
The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour.
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea's two daily newspapers...
