Tag: Broadcasting
Shilo Kino: Your mana diminishes every time you switch on the...
COMMENT: By Shilo Kino
What were you doing during the foreshore and seabed hīkoi in 2004?
I wish I could say I was at the protest, gripping...
Tahiti’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru suspends justice hunger strike
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has suspended his hunger strike launched five days ago in protest at the French judiciary.
Temaru, mayor...
Southern Cross: Buyout offer saves AAP and gives Pacific a breather
Pacific Media Watch
A reprieve for the newsagency Australian Associated Press (AAP) is featured today on Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross segment on Radio 95bFM.
An...
Australian ‘soft power’ push in Pacific with $17m free TV deal...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Homegrown Australian television shows to the tune of $17.1 million will be broadcast in the Pacific...
Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed...
Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time
Pacific Media Watch
From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an "authoritarianism creep" by governments in the...
Southern Cross: Fate of community, local language papers in the balance
Pacific Media Watch
During New Zealand's national Covid-19 lockdown, educational institutions have been changing the way they function or have shut down during this period.
Auckland...
RSF calls on Philippines Congress to renew ABS-CBN network’s franchise
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Philippine parliamentarians to resist President Rodrigo Duterte’s threats and ensure the survival of ABS-CBN, 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...
Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’
COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae
I grew up in the 1990s listening to NBC Radio - Radio Kundu - which was informative and always...
Mediawatch: Broadcaster’s Pacific slurs on Newstalk ZB censured
By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch
Newstalk ZB broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan has been censured for Pacific Island slurs in a ruling that contains uncharacteristically...
Caroline Tiriman – a runaway who became Tok Pisin voice of...
PROFILE: By Scott Waide in Lae
For a Tolai girl growing up in Papua New Guinea between 1960 and 1970, career options were very limited....
Dear Heather, we’re really talented, empowered – and we’re not leeches!
The Plantation Conversations video.
By Leilani Sitagata
Since media personality Heather Du Plessis-Allan’s “leech” comments late last month, some of New Zealand's Pasifika community have responded...
Peter Manning: Despite her good intentions, Michelle Guthrie was never...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Manning
Michelle Guthrie has been badly treated – not by being sacked, but by being hired in the first place. As a...
Next ABC chief must be advocate for public broadcasting, says MEAA
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The next managing director of the ABC must be prepared to fight for better funding and independence, and to champion public...
NZ aid workers’ open letter condemns broadcaster for Pacific ‘leeches’ attack
By RNZ Pacific
OPINION: An open letter to broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan on behalf of New Zealanders who have worked, and those are who are...
Tongan scholars lodge protests over broadcaster’s Pacific ‘leeches’ jibe
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Tongan community leaders and top scholars in New Zealand will complain to the Human Rights Commission against broadcaster...
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...
ABC’s shortwave cutback ‘weakens thin link’ for Pacific, says PMC
By Leilani Sitagata of Pacific Media Watch
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s cutback in services to the Asia-Pacific region has “weakened the thin link” that many...
Shortwave radio saves lives and foreign aid dollars, says McGarry
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Vanuatu has appealed to Australia to restore shortwave radio services to the Pacific region, after they were switched off by the...
Elizabeth Cox: Bring back a revitalised Radio Australia to all rural...
Submissions to the Australian Review of Broadcasting Services to Asia-Pacific closed yesterday. Development worker Elizabeth Cox made this public submission to the review panel...
PNG pledges boost for Bougainville local radio before referendum
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea is pledging to help Bougainville strengthen its local radio services ahead of next year's historic referendum on independence,...