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Media freedom: A nice RSF postcard from the Pacific, but not Asia

Pacific Media Watch -

April 20, 2016

Armed police at Auckland's LynnMall

Sri Lanka

Auckland terror attacker ‘brainwashed’ by neighbours, mother says

Sri Lanka

PNG government faces mounting pressure over Maseratis splurge

Sri Lanka

Auckland Sri Lankan community holds vigil for terror bomb victims, survivors

Covid-19 and hate

Sri Lanka

New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation

The container ship Dali

Sri Lanka

Baltimore bridge crash ship carrying toxic waste to Sri Lanka, says...

April 2, 2024

Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan boat crisis reminds Indonesia of Rohingya arrivals

June 21, 2016

Activists protest against World Bank policies

Sri Lanka

9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is...

September 11, 2021

Mt Eden Prison

Sri Lanka

NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’

September 7, 2021

Armed New Zealand police at LynnMall

Sri Lanka

Auckland terrorist’s name suppression revoked, but remains secret for now

September 4, 2021

An anti-government protester in Wellington marching towards Parliament

Sri Lanka

Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections

Pacific Media Watch -

April 9, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 030921

Sri Lanka

NZ mall stabbings a terrorist attack by ‘lone wolf’, says PM...

September 3, 2021

Police guard at LynnMall Countdown

Sri Lanka

Missed opportunities to deradicalise attacker in NZ tragedy, says criminologist

September 6, 2021

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Social media shutdown blocks out ‘truth’

Pacific Media Watch -

April 28, 2019

A View From Afar podcast

Sri Lanka

A View From Afar: Could Auckland’s LynnMall stabbing attack have been...

September 10, 2021

Husband and wife duo Lauren and Matt Barus perform under the stage name Terrible Sons

Sri Lanka

First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled

July 3, 2023

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Fiji Times chair Kirit Prabhudas Patel

Democracy

Fiji Times reaffirms commitment to truth, fairness and accountability

A focus on information-sharing between countries, which, on Fiji's part, requires a reform programme "to address fragmentation"

China

NZSIS to support Fiji intelligence review amid foreign ‘interference’ claims

UNGA adopts the political declaration on pandemic prevention

Global

‘Humiliating’ – former PM Helen Clark slams NZ abstention on United...

Masked Kumul 23 elite police tactical force members

Crime

Eight dead in September violence at Papua New Guinea’s troubled Porgera

EDITOR'S PICKS

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Commentary

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...

A scene from NAZA . . . the controversial documentary on Israel's industrial scale murder in the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

Delphina Soti. the general manager of Vinnies Tāmaki Makaurau

Civil Society

‘Poor becoming poorer’ – South Auckland foodbanks warn poverty is deepening...

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Round 1 to the PNG Chiefs in NZ High Court

Australia

High Court declines NZ Rugby’s bid for interim injunction on PNG...

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

A focus on information-sharing between countries, which, on Fiji's part, requires a reform programme "to address fragmentation"

China

NZSIS to support Fiji intelligence review amid foreign ‘interference’ claims

Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate

Commentary

Rawiri shines at Kingmaker debate as Māori voters set to rock...