Tag: Broadcasting

Solomon Times The Solomon islands Prime Minister's office (PMO) has accused local news media of being involved in a "war on media freedom” that is...

ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis The Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill -- introduced to Parliament this week -- will have a long journey before it...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence leader and mayor of Faa'a, Oscar Temaru, says double standards are at play in probing him over the payment of...

Policy failure over the last eight years -- including a massive cut to the ABC’s international funding -- has weakened Australia’s voice in the...

By Prianka Srinivasan of ABC Pacific Beat A senior Papua New Guinea journalist says an ongoing dispute between journalists and management at television broadcaster EMTV...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown Good news -- an Australian parliamentary review recommends a more “expansive” media presence in the Pacific. Bad news -- little of...

RNZ News RNZ and TVNZ will be subsidiaries of a new mega public media organisation, Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi has confirmed. Faafoi announced the long-awaited changes...

RNZ Pacific Investigators in French Polynesia have reassessed their case against the pro-independence leader Oscar Manutahi Temaru, who has challenged the seizure of his US$100,000...

OPEN LETTER: A reply to New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis from Afghanistani mother and former broadcaster Muzhgan Samarqandi My name is Muzhgan Samarqandi and I...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Former Papua New Guinea radio broadcaster and tourism personality Erigere Singin has been elected as the first woman national president of...

By Ian Johnstone, former manager of RNZ International All across the South Pacific, tribute is being paid to broadcaster and journalist Shiu Singh who has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 1990s listening to NBC Radio - Radio Kundu - which was informative and always...

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...