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FBC board chair Ajay Amrit (left) and sacked chief executive Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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Former FBC head’s pay package – ‘We have proof’, says Amrit

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February 7, 2023

Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor

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Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

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Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up time for fun stuff

Victor Mambor

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Papua’s Jubi chief editor awarded Indonesian Pogau prize for courage

An airstrike narrowly misses a civilian vehicle in Myanmar

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Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’

Auckland's flash floods 2023

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Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying...

February 2, 2023

Sacked FBC chief executive Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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Former FBC chief Riyaz paid almost $225k in bonuses, claims chair

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February 2, 2023

Media freedom in Fiji . . . media law reform a priority

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‘No secret’ that Fiji’s media law is target for free press...

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February 1, 2023

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown (left) fronting a media conference

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Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood

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January 31, 2023

"Stay Home" warning today on the New Zealand Herald's front page

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Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake...

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January 31, 2023

Pacific Beat media freedom in Fiji

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Fiji’s media veterans recount intimidation under FijiFirst government – eye on...

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January 30, 2023

FBC chair Ajay Bhai Amrit (left) and terminated chief executive Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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Sacked FBC chief ‘earning more than PM’, says new broadcaster chair

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January 30, 2023

Flooding on the corner of Seabrooke and Margan avenues in New Lynn

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Nick Rockel: When the public’s important at election time, but not...

January 28, 2023

Author Phil Kafcaloudes (centre) with Australia Calling colleagues

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Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement

January 27, 2023

Papuan journalist and editor Victor Mambor

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Papuan journalist Victor Mambor says bomb attack likely due to his...

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January 25, 2023

Counterspin Media visits Peka Peka

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Ian Powell: Sociopaths, psychopaths, the far-right and Jacinda Ardern

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January 25, 2023

Police gather evidence near the site of a bomb explosion that took place outside the house of Jubi editor Victor Mambor

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‘Terror’ bomb explodes near Papua journalist Victor Mambor’s home

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January 24, 2023

The planned RNZ/TVNZ merger

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Myles Thomas: Debate over public media merger is the proof we...

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January 24, 2023

NZ's Deputy PM Carmel Sepuloni

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Carmel Sepuloni makes history as Pasifika’s first deputy PM in Aotearoa

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January 23, 2023

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's supporters

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‘Freedom for Assange and journalism are at stake’ – the Belmarsh...

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January 21, 2023

Former NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark

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Former NZ PM Helen Clark calls for rethink on political debate...

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January 20, 2023

Newly appointed Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) chair Ajay Bhai Amrit (centre)

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Columnist named chair of FBC board and targets $11m grant breakdown

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January 20, 2023

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Wholesale change at FBC board ‘inevitable’, says academic

January 19, 2023

Nobel laureate and Rappler Holdings Corporation president Maria Ressa

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‘Today, facts win, truth wins, justice wins’, says Ressa over court...

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January 19, 2023

France Television

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French Polynesia plans journalism study grants to combat disinformation

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January 12, 2023

Fiji journalists and media workers cover the first sitting of Parliament

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Fiji’s revised Media Act currently being drafted, confirms Rabuka

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January 10, 2023

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Attorney-General Siromi Turaga

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Rabuka’s ‘wasteful spending’ spotlight now turns onto FBC, Fiji Sun

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January 9, 2023

CLIMATE AND COVID

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

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

Pacific Climate Warriors

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Analysis

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

CORONAVIRUS

Australian covid-19 testing decision

Australia

Covid-19: NZ ‘assessing health risk’ after Australia announces China traveller testing

Christmas Day in NZ

Coronavirus

Thousands to miss Christmas thanks to covid-19 – how to avoid...

The covid-19 pandemic's enduring impact

Coronavirus

Long covid, long tail – long summer of infection concerns in...

Anti-vax placards outside the High Court in Auckland

Coronavirus

No appeal against ruling in NZ baby blood case, surgery to...

Cook Islands drive through vaccination community event in Auckland

Coronavirus

NZ covid inquiry must look at response to specific communities, Pasifika...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Covid-19 Response Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall

Coronavirus

NZ announces Royal Commission into government’s covid-19 response

BEARING WITNESS

Professor David Robie

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

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

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

Bearing Witness

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

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

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APJS NEWSFILE

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While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

APJS newsfile

40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...

APJS newsfile

Tukuitonga goes into battle on behalf of Pacific for WHO position

APJS newsfile

Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...

POPULAR POSTS

Volunteers help residents in Auckland's Mt Roskill to clear up after the flash floods hit the city last weekend

Disasters

NZ Greens back call for rent controls after Auckland flash floods

People holding a "Honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi" sign at Waitangi.

Democracy

Prime Minister Hipkins welcomes less politics, more commemoration on Waitangi Day

Auckland flash flood debris

Disasters

NZ flash floods: Residents slam council inaction over rubbish disposal

Major-General Mark Goina

Crime

PNG military ‘won’t sit back’ after soldiers ambushed, warns chief

EDITOR'S PICKS

Sodelpa’s negotiation team chair, Anare Jale, announcing the result of the votes for a coalition government in 2022

Analysis

Richard Naidu: It’s your freedom – so speak up and step...

Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor

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Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown (left) fronting a media conference

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Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood

Counterspin Media visits Peka Peka

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Ian Powell: Sociopaths, psychopaths, the far-right and Jacinda Ardern

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

Pro-independence Papuan rebels fighters take a NZ pilot hostage

Aviation

Papuan rebels seize NZ pilot hostage, set local plane on fire,...

New Zealand’s first official flag was the flag of the United Tribes. It was selected on 20 March 1834 by 25 chiefs from the Far North which had gathered at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands

Democracy

NZ’s Waitangi Day 2023 – why Article 3 of the Treaty...

Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor

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Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

An airstrike narrowly misses a civilian vehicle in Myanmar

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Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’