Tag: Editorials
Samoa Observer: 2023 World Press Freedom Day – reflection, celebration
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
There will be celebrations as well as self-contemplation in newsrooms around the world today to mark World Press...
PNG Post-Courier: Let’s talk first on media policy and transparency
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
The discussions on Papua New Guinea's new draft media development policy will come to the fore today when the media industry presents...
Inside PNG: Media must be watchdog not government-controlled
EDITORIAL: Inside PNG
Papua New Guinea's Communications Minister, Timothy Masiu, has proposed a new policy that, if implemented, will affect the constitutional rights of freedom...
The Fiji Times: Kingmakers and the big post-election reveal!
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times
It’s the big day today! We will get to know the make-up of our Parliament. The...
PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinean Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey has clarified that the miscellaneous item of K2.6 billion in the budget will be spent on settling...
Marape blasts foreign media, claiming ‘fake news’ on mining conference
The Sunday Bulletin
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape says it is very disappointing that foreign-owned media in the country continue to run “fake...
PNG daily Post-Courier joins fight against gender-based violence
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
The Post-Courier daily newspaper is one of 15 companies in Papua New Guinea that have pledged to fight against...
Fiji Times: Valuing democracy amid shrinking global civic spaces
EDITORIAL: By Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
Democracy! We may differ in how we understand and value democracy. But what is the essence of democracy?
On...
Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The alleged shooting of Indonesian fishermen by Papua New Guinean soldiers last week where one Indonesian was reportedly killed is a...
Campaign over Solomons media freedom ‘misguided’, claims PM’s office
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...
Post-Courier: Our capital Port Moresby our last stand for peace
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier editor Matthew Vari
For weeks, we have seen the election violence as it spread in horrific proportions around the Highlands...
Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The headline of this editorial, we believe, expresses what every eligible voter, business house and candidate in the nation’s capital feels...
Stand with Rappler, defend press freedom in Philippines
EDITORIAL: By the Rappler team
We will continue bringing you the news, holding the powerful to account for their actions and decisions, calling attention to...
NZ public broadcaster faces ‘political headache’ over Breakfast anchor saga
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The "sorry saga" of former Breakfast celebrated host Kamahl Santamaria's abrupt departure from Television New Zealand last month has created a...
Post-Courier blasts Marape for Jakarta junket ‘while Tari burns’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Post-Courier newspaper today compared Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape to the infamous emperor Nero who fiddled while Rome...
Post-Courier: Violence in any form is a serious disease – target...
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's police commissioner, David Manning, addressing the International Women’s Day celebrations this week, let it be known that...
NZ newspaper condemns ‘reckless’ pandemic protesters in face of Ukraine’s ‘real...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper today contrasted the "reckless self-expression" of anti-covid mandates protesters and the dangers confronting the people of...
Global media attacks on Australasian ‘covid strictness’ unfair, says NZ Herald
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper today published an editorial exposing the "unfairness" of global media criticism of Australasian responses to covid-19,...
The Fiji Times: Professor Lal’s life leaves many lessons to appreciate...
EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
I couldn’t help but be drawn to the constant flow of emotions that came in the wake...
Herald scolds world over contrast between space and earthly wins
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper has praised the "gift of inspiration" over global cooperation in launching the James Webb space telescope...
Post-Courier: PNG presence must reflect climate change solutions
EDITORIAL: By the Post-Courier editors
Prime Minister James Marape has defended the massive cost of sending a 62-strong delegation to the COP26 Climate Summit in...
Samoa Observer: Pandora Papers show tax reform vital, but not just...
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
How strange that an Australian should have emerged as the face of Samoa in the Pandora Papers...