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Te Ao journalist, lawyer, advocate and musician Moana Maniapoto

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Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism

Pacific Media Watch -

December 24, 2024

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird

Pacific Profile

East Sepik governor Allan Bird on how to ‘change the trajectory’ of PNG

New Zealand Reporter of the Year Barbara Dreaver

Pacific Profile

Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured Barbara Dreaver

Pilot and author Silva McLeod

Pacific Profile

Fantasy like Moana? ‘No, I just wanted to tell my story,’ says Tongan pilot

Jai Ram Reddy (right) and Mahendra Chaudhry at a meeting

Pacific Profile

Brij Lal’s tribute to Jai Ram Reddy – ‘a true son of Fiji’

West Papua on Google

Pacific Profile

How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education

February 15, 2022

Omicron in the Pacific

Pacific Profile

Latest covid-19 reports roundup across the Pacific

February 9, 2022

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama SIDS

Pacific Profile

Covid pandemic blows world off course over climate crisis, says Bainimarama

August 31, 2021

Professor Shaun Hendy

Pacific Profile

NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative

January 26, 2021

Sir Mekere Morauta

Pacific Profile

Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister

December 27, 2020

Professor David Robie

Pacific Profile

Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role

December 21, 2020

Pacific Profile

Pal Ahluwalia: ‘My vision is to make USP one of the...

June 16, 2020

Pacific Profile

Young PMN journalist ‘flips the switch’ on Pasifika news stories

Leilani Sitagata -

September 24, 2018

Pacific Profile

Lifetime of devotion to Māori and Pacific student success

Leilani Sitagata -

July 27, 2018

Pacific Profile

PNG police plan public meeting to address Lae ‘land grabbing’

Pacific Media Centre -

April 28, 2018

Media

Lifting of Fiji journo ban ‘curious’, says reporter

October 18, 2016

Environment

Solar energy plans for American Samoa

October 11, 2016

Language

Pacific Voices: Fijian language week celebrations honour the past

October 6, 2016

Global

Pacific choir records for big budget Disney film Moana

August 30, 2016

Human Rights

Pacific activists call for urgent action over next two years to...

August 24, 2016

Human Rights

‘Zero mention of human rights abuses during the Aus govt’s visit...

August 23, 2016

Documentaries

Climate change doco highlights Tokelau as world leader in ‘solar revolution’

August 12, 2016

Papua New Guinea

Local PNG leader sets deadline to start LNG negotiations

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 10, 2016

Climate

Climate change report confirms ‘worst fears’ for Pacific nations

August 9, 2016

Pacific Profile

PNG PM directs police investigation into brutal student killing

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 8, 2016

Sports

Kiribati to compete in two events at the Rio 2016 Olympics

August 2, 2016

Pacific Profile

WJEC16: Media failing in reporting climate change, say educators

July 16, 2016

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

BEARING WITNESS

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?

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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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

How Iran's PressTV channel reported the Israeli attack

Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Team Genocide and the West’s war on Iran

Crime

Vehicle issued to Fiji assistant minister involved in fatal accident –...

The Rainbow Warrior III in action against industrial longlining fishing in the South Pacific

Australia

Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation

Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

Bougainville

Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

EDITOR'S PICKS

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron

Analysis

Decoding PNG leader Marape’s talks with French President Macron

Protesters from the Maghreb taking part in the Land March to Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip

Analysis

Why Israel’s shock and awe has proven its power but lost...

"Isn’t it time we woke from our deep slumber?"

Analysis

Is genocide the new normal? Could Israel and the US destroy...

A Merkava tank in Gaza pictured at the moment a Hamas resistance fighter emerged from a tunnel to plant an explosive device

Analysis

A video like no other – why the Israeli military revealed...

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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

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days

Analysis

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you...

A New Zealand news report on the Middle East conflict on 1News

Global

Solomon Islanders safe but unable to leave Israel amid war on...

NZ journalist Cole Martin

Asia Report

As Israeli attacks draw tit-for-tat missile responses from Iran and shuts...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron

Analysis

Decoding PNG leader Marape’s talks with French President Macron