Tag: Broadcasting

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...

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....

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...

ANALYSIS: By Peter Manning Michelle Guthrie has been badly treated – not by being sacked, but by being hired in the first place. As a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A group of Australia-based supporters is trying to revitalise Australian broadcasting in the Pacific and Asia region. For more than 50 years,...

By RNZ Pacific China has taken over many of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's former shortwave radio frequencies into the Pacific. In response to budget cuts, the...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila The clock is ticking for the Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation, operator of Radio Vanuatu and TV Blong Vanuatu. An...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand broadcaster 95bFM and youth media company VICE have today announced a new content partnership that will see the two...

ANALYSIS: By Dr Tarek Cherkaoui Diplomatic quarrels in the Arabian Peninsula have a long history, and small Gulf States, such as Qatar, align themselves with...

In this University of the South Pacific's student journalist documentary broadcast on Radio Pasifik, Wansolwara’s Elizabeth Osifelo investigates the issue of women participating in...

NCTV's latest news bulletin. Pacific Media Watch News Desk New Caledonia TV's chief executive Laurent Le Brun and colleagues made a flying visit to AUT's Screen...

Radio Tarana's honours video message from Robert Khan. Pacific Media Watch The founder and chief executive of New Zealand’s leading Indian radio network, Tarana, has today...

Award-winning Auckland University of Technology graduate journalist Kendall Hutt has been appointed contributing editor for the Pacific Media Watch freedom project for 2017. Hutt says...

Tributes to the late Roger Hau’ofa have flowed in from all over Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. FM100 aired aired a special talkback...