Tag: Editorials
NZ’s leading newspaper defends young MP’s Parliament ‘shining light’ haka
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has joined the debate about the haka that stunned Parliament and the nation last week, defending the...
NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald
Pacific Media Watch
As thousands take to the streets this week to "honour" the country's 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the largest daily newspaper New Zealand...
Donald Trump ‘unfit to lead’ – vote for Harris, warns New...
Pacific Media Watch
The editorial board of The New York Times has demolished Donald Trump in a single paragraph calling on readers to vote for...
US elections: Editorial writers at LA Times, Washington Post resign after...
Writers resign from The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times in protest over the blocking of their editorials by the billionaire owners. Video: Democracy...
Two of the US’s biggest newspapers have refused to endorse a...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne
In February 2017, as Donald Trump took office, The Washington Post adopted the first slogan in its...
Samoa Observer: A slap across the face of media freedom
EDITORIAL: The Samoa Observer editorial board
The Samoan government’s attempt to control the media for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is a slap across...
NZ Herald’s disclosure obligation to readers: Why are we waiting?
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
The New Zealand Herald and its publisher are failing to follow a golden rule: Engage with readers when they question your...
The Fiji Times: Democracy – ‘by the skin of its teeth’
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times
Australian constitutional law expert Professor Anthony Regan believes Fiji's Coalition government came into power “by the...
NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial
RNZ News
Media publisher NZME has come under fire for admitting it used artificial intelligence to create editorials that ran in the Weekend Herald and...
Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a...
Professor Vijay Naidu's speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva,...
PNG Post-Courier: Census fiasco – why the poor planning, poor vision?
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
We support Count Me In 2024. It is an important national census event for Papua New Guinea. It is supported by the...
Open letter: On NZ news media and ‘faceless, nameless’ Palestinians
Pacific Media Watch
This unpublished "heartfelt" letter sent to The Press this week criticising its April 6 editorial about a "turning point" in the deadly...
The Jakarta Post: Stop fighting fire with fire in Papua –...
EDITORIAL: The Jakarta Post
It happens again and again; indigenous Papuans fall victim to Indonesian soldiers.
This time, we have photographic evidence for the brutality, with...
Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
Some people are literally making a killing in Enga.
Yes, they really are.
Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking...
Marape thanks Australia for providing an ‘anchor’ for independent PNG
By Bramo Tingkeo of the PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape made his historic address to the Australian Federal Parliament in Canberra...
Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier
Last year, the Papua New Guinea government moved in a subtle way into the Fourth Estate.
It tried to -- and...
The Fiji Times: Drug bust a chilling wake-up call for Fiji
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times
The revelation that police have carried out what is believed to be one of Fiji’s biggest...
PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier
“Is there a democratic Papua New Guinean nation -- or is it merely an arbitrary nation built on a shaky,...
The Fiji Times: We need to work together in the war...
SUNDAY TIMES EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor Fred Wesley
If there is a rise in robberies in some of Fiji's urban areas, then something...
Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or...
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...
PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country?
Papua New Guinea's Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...
Girmit Day – Shaping Fiji through hard work, blood, sweat and...
EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
Sunday -- May 14 -- was an important date for Fiji.
It is recorded in history as a...