Tag: Independent media

RNZ Pacific Vanuatu's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Trading Post Ltd, the owner of the Vanuatu Daily Post newspaper, BUZZ FM96 and other...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist The Fiji government has announced it will repeal the controversial Media Industry Development Act...

The National in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's draft National Media Development Policy is not intended to give the government power to control the media...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific Report It has been a decade since The Daily Blog (TDB) came into being informing all and...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The first media freedom advocacy group has formed in the Marshall Islands. Organisers this week were in the initial phase of...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor about Russian strikes on four radio...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi October 2021 was a horror month for Facebook as the headlines screamed “Facebook under fire” which started with the social...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report “Public interest journalism plays a crucial role in promoting the quality of public life, protecting individuals from...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Phil Thornton The military’s brutality is a daily reality for all the people of Myanmar. As Myanmar’s army prepares to deploy and...

JEANZ News Professor David Robie, founding director of the AUT Pacific Media Centre, has relaunched Asia Pacific Report as an independent Pacific affairs and analysis...

COMMENT: By Kasun Ubayasiri in Brisbane It has indeed been a few strange days for Australian news media. Apparently, monopolies are bad if they are...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Nine Entertainment and News Corporation are wrong to say Google and Facebook have destroyed their business models by stealing content, according...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered "live" in Auckland and "virtually" from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their...

REWIND: By Crispin Maslog Filipinos under 48 today were not yet born when Martial Law was imposed on the Philippines by the late and unlamented...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Sixty press freedom groups and civil society organisations, journalism institutions, filmmakers, and other supporters have formed a coalition in support of...

By Bob Howarth in Dili With the rapid spread of the dreaded Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic across the Pacific and Asia many people naturally seek online...

Journalist Sri Krishnamurthi's media freedom video. Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The theme for the 26th celebration of the World Press Freedom Day this year is “Media...

Journalist Sri Krishnamurthi's video interview with Alistar Kata. Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Alistar Kata is uniquely placed to talk about diversity in New Zealand media newsrooms. Not...

OPINION: Mackenzie Smith reviews two months living in Indonesia as a journalist. In Indonesia, I expected to broaden my understanding and realisation of Asia and...

By Duncan Graham in Malang, East Java The academic world is supposed to be a bright-lit landscape of independent research pushing back the frontiers of...

Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre has marked its tenth anniversary with a seminar discussing two of the wider region's most critical media...