PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item
Pacific Media Watch
The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director,...
New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 95bFM The Wire's Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about...
Second PNG mine confirms covid case as national infections top 200
By EMTV News
Lihir is the second mine in Papua New Guinea to report a confirmed covid-19 case as the national total of infections reached...
Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing
By Tracy Neal of RNZ News
A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect New Zealand's strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of...
Former Somali refugee now Ivy League scholar bound for US
Studying a Bachelor of Arts at AUT helped Guled Mire understand his place in the world, so that he can make a difference in...
Contact tracing begins for first Bougainville covid case
By Patrick Makis in Buka
Contact tracing has begun for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's first covid-19 case.
The 22-year-old male, who had returned from Port...
100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally...
By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago
Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without...
French minister says New Caledonia referendum on track despite covid
By RNZ Pacific
France's new overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says New Caledonia's restrictions over the covid-19 pandemic will not affect the preparations for the October...
Media under strain in Melanesia during challenging era
By RNZ Pacific
Hostile media environments pose growing challenges to Melanesia's democracies, according to a new edition of the Pacific Journalism Review.
With its first special...
Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in...
West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Indonesia's West Papua province has again been recorded as having the worst democracy index in the republic, reports CNN Indonesia.
This year...
PNG surge in covid infections to 153 ‘expected’ and likely to...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A medical authority has warned that the spike in covid-19 cases in Papua New Guinea is to be expected and could...
AJF slams ‘misguided’ Malaysian investigation into Al Jazeera report
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom (AJF) has called on the Malaysian government to desist its current investigation of Al Jazeera English...
Martyn Bradbury: TVNZ block on Māori Party for election debates shameful
COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury
TVNZ have made the decision to exclude the Māori Party from their election debates.
The argument being forwarded by TVNZ is that...
Air Tahiti Nui flight attendant tests positive for covid-19 – second...
By RNZ Pacific
A flight attendant in French Polynesia has tested positive for covid-19 - the second Tahiti infection recorded in three days.
The government said...
John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is coming — unless we stop it...
ANALYSIS: By John Pilger
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect...
Cook Islands episode in AUT Pacific language series launched
The Cook Islands language video.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Cook Islands episode in AUT’s Pacific language video series – "Adapting to a changing world, shaping...
Pacific launches talks about how to reopen amid covid pandemic
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The safe reopening of entry points into six Pacific Islands countries amid the covid-19 pandemic is being discussed at a meeting...
Another PNG health officer tests covid positive – national covid total...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea has one new case of the novel coronavirus covid-19 reported yesterday bringing total cases to 111, reports EMTV...
Four Papua New Guineans arrested in cocaine for Australia plot
Police Commissioner David Manning's media conference yesterday about the K200 million drug heist. Video: Loop PNG
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papuan New Guinea's massive drug haul...