Tag: Broadcasting
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,...
Help ‘revitalise’ Australia’s broadcast voice in Asia-Pacific, say advocates
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,...
China takes up Australia’s former radio frequencies in Pacific
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...
Clock ticking for Vanuatu’s state broadcaster – 6 months to reform
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...
95bFM, VICE media team up to offer ‘authentic, credible’ NZ news...
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...
Autocracy strikes back: Media freedom under siege in Arabia
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...
More women in Solomon Islands politics — how it needs to...
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 team drops in on AUT’s Pacific Media Centre and Screen...
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 Khan honoured for services to radio, Indian community
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...
Chasing media freedom story ‘opened passion’ for new PMW editor
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...
PNG’s radio talkback broadcasting legend Roger Hau’ofa dies
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...
Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters
By Dr Alexandra Wake in Melbourne
As a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kirakira in the Solomon Islands early today, triggering a...