NZ media companies agree on protocol for covering mosque terror attack...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
New Zealand’s major media companies have agreed to follow a strict protocol when covering the trial of the Christchurch mosque accused terrorist.
The...
NZ Herald launches premium paywall – how will it impact on...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Merja Myllylahti
New Zealand’s largest newspaper, The NZ Herald, launched its digital subscriptions today for online content, making history at the...
Guyon Espiner: Farewell Morning Report – what I won’t be apologising...
COMMENTARY: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ Morning Report presenter
After five years and 1000 shows I'm switching off the 4am alarm.
This is my final week on...
NZ journalists focusing on ‘tragedy prevention’, says CJR research
By Michael Andrew
More New Zealand journalists have been seeking ways to “prevent tragedy” through their reporting, shows new research published in Columbia Journalism Review.
The...
West Papuan leader who advocated compromise with Jakarta dies
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Franz Albert Joku, a former leading West Papuan independence campaigner who changed sides and became an Indonesian government supporter,...
Students gear up for first national live election broadcast with The...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Students enrolled in journalism programmes around Australia are working on the first national
student election broadcast for the 2019 election, underpinned by...
China promotes ‘green’ belt and road, but pressured over coal investments
By Megan Darby, deputy editor of Climate Home News
China launched an “international green development coalition” last week, in the face of growing concern about...
New Caledonian football teams end NZ’s Oceania dominance
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Caledonian football teams Hienghène Sport and AS Magenta have ended New Zealand’s dominance of the OFC Champions League with upset...
Opposition MP jailed – Nauru 19 protesters await appeal ruling
By RNZ Pacific
A Nauru opposition MP has been jailed on an assault charge.
Jaden Dogireiy has been given a sentence of 13 months, which means...
Students to talk frankly on NZ race relations at national hui
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Students from across New Zealand will have their say at a hui on race relations in Aotearoa next month, followed by...
Thousands join women’s march in Jakarta for justice, gender equality
By Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta
Thousands of Indonesians marched from Jl. Sudirman to the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta on Saturday for the 2019...
Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Social media shutdown blocks out ‘truth’
Al Jazeera's Listening Post analysis of the social media fallout after Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
After the Easter Sunday bombings, social...
‘We’ll deal to you’ Namah threat to PNG daily newspapers
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An opposition party leader who believes there will soon be a change in government in Papua New Guinea has warned the...
Five PNC rebels break away from O’Neill’s cabinet in shock move
By Jack Lapauve Jnr in Port Moresby
Three Papua New Guinean provincial governors and two other MPs have resigned from Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's People's...
Bid to expel journalist from Yap puts spotlight on Micronesian ‘free’...
By Michael Andrew
Traditional chiefs are trying to expel a US journalist from the Federated States of Micronesia island of Yap.
Last week the Pacific Island...
Solomon Islands police remain on high alert in the wake of...
By Koroi Hawkins in Honiara
Police in Solomon Islands remain on high alert after Wednesday's riots which broke out across the capital Honiara shortly after...
‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of...
By Rosalie Nongebatu, editor of Wansolwara
A Solomon Islands academic says the only body that can find a legitimate solution to his country’s current crisis...
30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital
Police say some people decided to take the law into their own hands and marched through some streets of the capital, fighting, causing public...
Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected
By RNZ Pacific
Police in Solomon Islands called for calm today after rioting broke out in the capital of Honiara over the election of Manasseh...
Auckland Sri Lankan community holds vigil for terror bomb victims, survivors
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 60 people from the Sri Lankan community and human rights advocates gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square today in a solidarity...