Tag: News Media
Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME –...
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
New Zealand-based Canadian billionaire James Grenon owes the people of this country an immediate explanation of his intentions regarding media conglomerate...
Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western...
Pacific Media Watch
With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange, Israel's military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands...
Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right
The re-election of Donald Trump is proof that the Right's most powerful weapon is media manipulation, ensuring the public sphere is not engaged in...
Will New Zealand ‘invade’ the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The country’s leading daily newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, screamed out this online headline by a columnist on February 10: “Should...
NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent
There has rightly been much debate and analysis over New Zealand’s decision to review the aid it gives...
PNG media policy ‘new era journalism’ draft law ready, says Masiu
NBC News in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's cabinet has officially given the green light to the PNG media policy, which will soon be presented...
News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change...
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament and is liable to prosecution -- not that government will lift a finger to enforce...
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers –...
An open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in response to the social media giant's decision to abandon its fact-checking regime protection in the...
MEAA welcomes News MAP funding ‘leg up’ for Australian journalism
Pacific Media Watch
The union for Australian journalists has welcomed the delivery by the federal government of more than $150 million to support the sustainability...
RNZ Mediawatch: Under the sinking lid from offshore tech companies
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
This week, Minister of Racing Winston Peters announced the end of greyhound racing in the interests of animal welfare.
Soon...
New course planned to help Pacific media professionals counter disinformation
Pacific Media Watch
An Aotearoa New Zealand-based community education provider is preparing a new course aimed to help media professionals in the Pacific region understand...
Cynical politics reported on world stage damage NZ’s reputation
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
"Flashpoint" in a foreign news story usually brings to mind the Middle East or the border between North and South Korea....
Bill would ‘render the treaty worthless’ – world reacts to national...
RNZ News
International media coverage of Aotearoa New Zealand's national Hīkoi to Parliament has largely focused on the historic size of the turnout in Wellington...
Fiji’s mainstream media fight for survival in social media era
By Georgia Brown, Queensland University of Technology
Fijian newsrooms are under pressure to adapt as audiences shift away from traditional media such as newspapers, radio,...
Western media ‘parrots Israeli propaganda’ over Gaza, says analyst
Pacific Media Watch
A media studies professor at Qatar's Doha Institute for Graduate Studies has completed empirical studies examining Western media coverage of Israel’s war...
New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press...
ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti, City St George's, University of London and Waqas Ejaz, University of Oxford
Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But...
Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t...
By John Minto
Published in the Christchurch Star newspaper yesterday -- this was the advert rejected last week by Stuff, New Zealand's major news website,...
Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala...
Pacific Media Watch
Two open letters on the genocidal Israeli war against Palestine sent to The Press for publication have been ignored in the continued...
Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page
COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández
In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip -- a 51-day affair that...
John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the...
Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence...
Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news,...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne
ABC chair Kim Williams has attracted considerable attention with his criticism of the broadcaster’s online news choices....
Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development
RNZ Pacific
Australia has announced more than A$68 million over the next five years to strengthen and expand Australian broadcasting and media sector engagement across...