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Award-winning TVNZ investigative journalist Indira Stewart speaking at the Pacific Media International conference in Suva, Fiji, in July 2024. Papers from the conference are featured in the inaugural edition of Pacific Media being published today.

Innovation

New Pacific Media journal launched in APMN and USP partnership

Pacific Media Watch -

November 10, 2025

Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

Innovation

Not enough known about seafloor to begin mining, says Cook Is scientist

USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

Innovation

USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution reports

Unity will be crucial if the Labour Party is to sell its proposed capital gains tax

Innovation

Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch

Tagaloa Cooper (left) and Lisa Tumahai

Innovation

‘Oceania voices’ – Indigenous climate adaptation network launches in Ōtautahi

Siege busting

Innovation

Kia Ora Gaza marks 15th anniversary of Viva Palestina 5 solidarity...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 22, 2025

Political prisoner Marwan Barghouti

Innovation

Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 21, 2025

A member of the Police Response Team in Solomon Islands

Innovation

‘Not an attempt to militarise our nation’ – Solomon Islands considers...

October 21, 2025

Fauono Ken Laban

Innovation

Ken Laban makes history as Pasifika candidates win across Aotearoa

October 12, 2025

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Innovation

Fijian PM Rabuka hints at ‘historic’ referendum after landmark court ruling

September 1, 2025

RNZ’s diminishing linear radio audience has to be understood in context

Innovation

A ‘scathing’ report on RNZ’s performance obscures the good news –...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 27, 2025

Rival flags of influence in the Pacific - Israel and Palestine

Innovation

Activist slams Pacific’s ‘dreadful response’ to Palestine amid growing links with...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 22, 2025

Nuclear refugees from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands being evacuated on board the Rainbow Warrior to Mejatto island in May 1985

Innovation

Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show

Pacific Media Watch -

August 21, 2025

NZ Police Commissioner Richard Chambers at the Fiji Police Force headquarters in Suva in May

Innovation

NZ police chief acknowledges impact of criminal deportees on Pacific

August 21, 2025

The word "peace" in French is scrawled on the road between Nouméa and Magenta beach

Innovation

French Overseas Minister in New Caledonia in bid to ‘save’ Bougival...

August 20, 2025

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Innovation

Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must...

August 19, 2025

Bougainville woman politician Elizabeth Tako Palin

Innovation

‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s...

August 15, 2025

Progressive journalist and presenter Mehdi Hasan

Innovation

Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2025

Glorious Tour is run by sisters Louisa Tipene Opetaia (left) and Ama Mosese from Māngere

Innovation

‘Glorious’ sisters showcase Auckland’s Polynesian experiences for tourists

August 1, 2025

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

Innovation

How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest...

July 29, 2025

China's BeiDou communications satellite

Innovation

Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is more about a looming new...

July 28, 2025

The Handala crew in emergency positions as the Israeli military stormed the Gaza-bound aid ship

Innovation

Gaza condemns Israeli ‘piracy’ over storming of Handala aid ship

July 27, 2025

Vanuatu's Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu talks to the media

Innovation

Historic ICJ climate ruling ‘just the beginning’, says Vanuatu’s Regenvanu

July 25, 2025

If successful, the ICJ ruling could have major ramifications for international law and how climate change disputes are litigated

Innovation

ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call...

July 23, 2025

How Kanaky New Caledonia's public broadcaster NC La 1ère reported the news

Innovation

New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal

July 13, 2025

"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"

Innovation

NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition

July 12, 2025

Rainbow Warrior host Niamh O'Flynn talks to author David Robie in the ship's mess as part of the virtual tour

Innovation

Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior

Pacific Media Watch -

July 10, 2025

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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

Innovation

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

Innovation

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

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

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

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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APJS NEWSFILE

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

Innovation

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

"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"

Analysis

Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

USTKE and other inter-union members met French Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou on her visit to Camp Est prison in Nouméa

Decolonisation

French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia

Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza

Asia Report

New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership

Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025

Asia Report

The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...

EDITOR'S PICKS

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil

Analysis

Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face...

"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"

Analysis

Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

"If the Samoan Prime Minister is truly concerned about the vision of journalists, he need only look at those closest to him"

Democracy

Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise

JAWS president Lagi Keresoma

Democracy

Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access

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

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil

Analysis

Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face...

"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"

Analysis

Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

The pōwhiri for the start of the four-day WIPCE 2025

Culture

World’s largest indigenous education conference kicks off in Auckland

ABC's Fiji correspondent Lice Movono (from left), RNZ Pacific manager Moera Tuilaipa-Taylor and Islands Business editor Samantha Magick speaking during a women empowerment panel at the 2024 Pacific Media International conference

Democracy

Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development...