Climate change, disasters feature in joint Indonesia-NZ media journal
By Rahul Bhattarai
A local Indonesian community leader has praised the co-publication of a climate change and disasters edition of Pacific Journalism Review launched at...
Peters announces NZ$10m boost to fund dedicated Pacific TV channel
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand will spend $NZ10 million in the next three years on a Pasifika television channel for the region.
The Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting...
Fiji media laws aren’t so draconian, says former MIDA chief
The Fiji media laws aren’t as draconian as they are perceived – if one follows rules - Asia Pacific Report's Sri Krishnamurthi was told...
Meet Sia, a Kiwi Korean culture and social media lover
By Leilani Sitagata in Auckland
Sia Caldwell made a big shift across the ocean at the start of this year to South Korea to teach...
From rags to riches to rags again – the Forum’s hidden...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Crosbie Walsh
Nauru hosts the Pacific Islands Forum -- whose membership includes Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific Islands nations -- from...
Nauru faces media, security pressure ahead of Pacific Islands Forum
Nauru President Baron Waqa addressing the media before opening the Pacific Islands Forum. Video: PI Forum Secretariat
By Gia Garrick, Political Reporter of RNZ National
Regional...
Sedition, coup-era media law and nerves keep lid on Fiji press
With the date for this year’s second Fiji general election since the 2006 coup yet to be announced, one of the questions is will...
NZ must help Solomon Islands tackle unemployment ‘time bomb’, says Clark
By Jessica Marshall in Auckland
The Solomon Islands faces a “time bomb” with a youth unemployment rate of 82 percent and New Zealand needs to...
Gallery: Stimulating insights, vision for gender diversity summit
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is the new patron for the National Council of Women and she shared her...
NZ offer still open for taking 150 refugees, says PM Ardern
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reaffirmed her country’s offer to take 150 refugees from Nauru and Manus Island...
Storytelling a Filipino migrant family’s experiences in NZ student doco
By Leilani Sitagata of Pacific Media Watch
Student journalist Irra Lee has offered a "human face" to migration in a new short documentary called A...
Aid groups call on Pacific leaders to end Nauru refugee ‘stain...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Amnesty International has joined 80 other NGOs in urging Pacific leaders to demand the closure of the Australian-funded immigration detention camp on...
Gallery: Climate change, disasters spark Indonesian-NZ research publication
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
AUT Indonesia Centre director Lester Finch and Auckland Indonesia Community representative Maman Baboe spoke strongly last night in support of Indonesian...
New Caledonia: Does the French public actually want to ‘set it...
Things may be coming to a head over the coming New Caledonia referendum, the independence struggle in New Zealand’s own region, but there is...
Plea for PM to be ‘game-changer’ in Pacific support for West...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A New Zealand-based West Papua advocacy group has appealed to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other leaders meeting at the Pacific...
Baliau village apologises for assault on PNG’s volcano island journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The village of Baliau on Papua New Guinea's Manam island has publicly apologised to an assaulted journalist reporting for The National...
Canberra’s new PM Morrison has little foreign policy, Pacific interest
By Susan Harris Rimmer in Brisbane
With all the focus this week on new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s domestic challenges, less attention has been paid...
Pacific media freedom groups blast assault on reporters on volcano island
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Some villagers affected by the volcanic eruption on Manam island haven taken out their anger and frustration against four journalists covering...
Desperate call for food, water from 5000 on Manam volcano island
EMTV's Madang correspondent Martha Louis reports from Manam island. Video: EMTV
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 5000 people, including children, on Papua New Guinea's Manam...
PINA condemns attack on PNG journalist covering volcano
By RNZ Pacific
The president of the Pacific Islands News Association says he is appalled and disappointed by an attack on Papua New Guinea journalist...