Tag: Communication
Nick Rockel: ‘Over and out from me’ – Dr Ashley Bloomfield
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel
On Friday I watched Ashley Bloomfield’s last afternoon health update. After all we’ve been through over the past couple of years,...
Covid-19 outbreak: Misinformation spreading among NZ’s parliament protesters, say police
RNZ News
Police say misinformation and a "range of different causes and motivations" are making it difficult to resolve the situation with protesters at New...
Anxious Tongans in NZ await volcano news from home: ‘It’s painful,...
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
Langi Fatanitavake's wife and son live on one of the islands flanking Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai undersea volcano, but...
How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
PART 2: WS storytelling in more detail
In part one of my article on White Supremacy (WS), I articulated some of the...
Northland added to NZ’s alert level 3 tonight over ‘uncooperative’ case
RNZ News
Northland will move to alert level 3 restrictions from 11:59pm tonight, New Zealand's Covid-19 Response Minister has confirmed.
Minister Chris Hipkins held a briefing...
AJF’s Peter Greste presses for media freedom act to protect journalists
The Press Freedom Tracker launch video featuring Peter Greste and the tracker team. Video: AJF
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Peter Greste-fronted Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom...
Leading NZ newspaper warns nation against complacency over covid
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper has warned the country against complacency over the covid-19 pandemic and to look to Fiji for...
Social media ‘bullshit’ threatens coping with covid-19 outbreak in PNG
By Sue Ahearn, founder of The Pacific Newsroom and former editor, ABC International
A PNG member of Parliament died from covid-19 this week but it...
NZ covid: ‘We should be TikToking information’, says Pacific advocate
By RNZ News
The New Zealand government is being told to roll out clearer and smarter communications around the latest covid-19 community outbreak, to make...
Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep...
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News
Tonga has fallen five places to lie 50th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index.
In last year's index, compiled...
PNG government doing its best amid virus crisis, says journalist
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
After some weeks of heavy criticism of Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape’s government amid...
How Ardern’s coronavirus kindness theme can become contagious
The South African 'Don't Panic Buy' jingle. Video: ENCA/PickNSave
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part...
PNG’s Health Minister Jelta Wong ‘sidelines’ Kramer in virus briefings
By Simon Eroro in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea will have only one press release in the afternoons at 4:00pm daily to give updates on...
A life well lived paves way to encourage Pasifika women in...
By Karyn Tattersfield
Geraldine Lopdell’s family was looking for a fitting way to celebrate a "life well lived" when they decided to set up one...
Janet Tupou: Speaking life into your goals and seeing dreams come...
By Dr Janet Tupou
Hand over heart, speaking life into your goals and dreams can see them come true.
After sitting in my first ever lecture...
PNG plans to shut down Facebook for one month to target...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea plans to shut down Facebook for one month to enable the government to filter out "fake users", report...
More than 30 feared dead after quake hits PNG’s Hela, Southern...
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
More than 30 people are believed to have been killed in the massive 7.5 magnitude Papua New Guinean earthquake...
PNG mobile revolution about to enter new high-speed cable phase
By Scott Waide in Lae
In 2007 when Digicel entered the PNG market, Papua New Guineans realised how much in unnecessary charges they had been...
Vanuatu Daily Digest condemns ‘blanket state censorship’ of social media
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Public Service Commission is forbidding government workers from accessing social media, Radio Vanuatu News reports today.
This was decided...
Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing
By Fatu Tauafiafi in Auckland
A large contingent of Pacific island country officials will be among delegates from 60 countries meeting in Auckland today to...
Video campaign tackles ‘subtle racism’ at university
I, Too, Am Auckland Experiences. Runtime 14:47
By Anuja Nadkarni
“Subtle” racial discrimination faced by Māori and Pacific Islander pupils is the subject of a video...