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TVNZ, RNZ merger a watershed moment for NZ media

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March 14, 2022

The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case

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Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism

Television New Zealand . . . killing off current affairs

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Mediawatch: Apocalypse now for NZ news – take 2?

Fijian media stakeholders at the public consultation on the Media Ownership and Regulation Bill 2023 in Suva

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Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders

The Tino Rangatiratanga haki

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‘Delusional’ Treaty Principles Bill scrapped but fight for Te Tiriti just beginning, say lawyers and advocates

Protesters hold aloft an image of a baby dying from starvation outside the Washington headquarters of Fox News

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As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival

Pacific Media Watch -

August 1, 2025

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird

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PNG MP Allan Bird on death threats: ‘Picking on me isn’t...

March 12, 2024

Under fire PNG Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko

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PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row

May 13, 2023

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RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism

Pacific Media Watch -

June 17, 2020

Former AG Christian Porter 210621

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Journalists are not going to stop tweeting. But should media outlets...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 21, 2021

The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case

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Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism

Pacific Media Watch -

May 23, 2025

Tax and contempt

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News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change...

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January 26, 2025

Governor Powes Parkop, city chief of PNG's capital Port Moresby

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Port Moresby governor Parkop stable and recovering after cardiac scare

December 28, 2022

The first-ever US military flight carrying 18 Marshall Islanders deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrives at Majuro

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ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base

July 19, 2025

AJI general chairperson Sasmito Madrim

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AJI slams hacking of group chief’s accounts as attack on press...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 1, 2022

Horror torture in Hela

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PNG woman tortured and killed in horrifying video over ‘sorcery’

June 4, 2021

James Marape

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Keith Jackson: Marape’s commitment to PNG a checklist for judging him

June 4, 2019

Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon

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NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in...

July 27, 2022

Indonesian soldiers board a transport ship for Papua

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The Jakarta Post: Stop fighting fire with fire in Papua –...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 28, 2024

Samoan local media in a doorstep with former police commissioner, Fuiavaili'ili Egon Keil

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Samoa Observer: 2023 World Press Freedom Day – reflection, celebration

May 3, 2023

The Trust Gap

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Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media

Pacific Media Watch -

October 22, 2022

Professor David Robie

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

Pacific Media Watch -

October 20, 2022

The “Jacinda effect” had switched from being a uniting force to a polarising one

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Jacinda Ardern says goodbye to parliament – how her politics of...

April 6, 2023

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Israel Folau ‘misuses’ Bible to justify hatred, says Samoan minister

June 17, 2019

Communications researcher Khairiah A. Rahman

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PMC communications researcher named on Meta Aotearoa panel

November 12, 2021

Pacific Journalism Review researcher Justito Adipresto

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Indonesian media ‘favours state voice’ on West Papua, PJR research finds

Pacific Media Watch -

August 11, 2023

Pro-Palestine protesters outside the NZ Voyager Media Awards in Auckland tonight demonstrating against "biased" media coverage

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Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against...

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May 16, 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

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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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

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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...

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

Bearing Witness

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

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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)

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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

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Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

A Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July

Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Climate

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Report

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

EDITOR'S PICKS

Pacific Islands Forum member country flags

Analysis

West Papua: The Pacific’s new test of Indonesia’s sovereignty narrative

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Democracy

No-confidence motion against Solomon Islands PM withdrawn

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

Development

France commits more financial help to struggling New Caledonia

Peace movement historian Maire Leadbeater

Asia Report

Shane te Pou: Matua Pita Tipene, I wish you weren’t in...

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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

Pacific Islands Forum member country flags

Analysis

West Papua: The Pacific’s new test of Indonesia’s sovereignty narrative

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Democracy

No-confidence motion against Solomon Islands PM withdrawn

Protester Craig Tynan "shows the flag"

Asia Report

Palestine protesters renew ‘don’t buy Israeli’ pledge, demand NZ sanction Israel

Rescue teams in Nepal are working around the clock to reach workers trapped

Asia Report

Tibetan community shocked by devastation from Nepal flash flood