Tag: News Media
Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news...
Stuff
New Zealand's Stuff media group has joined other leading news organisations around the world in restricting Open AI from using its content to power...
Benny Wenda stands down as head of West Papuan liberation group
RNZ Pacific
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has declared it will now base itself in the Pacific region after years of partial...
Shailendra Singh: How media can help unravel Fiji’s social cohesion puzzle
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh in Suva
Conflict and insufficient social cohesion are the biggest challenges in Fiji, and all and any efforts to mitigate and...
Mediawatch: Putting right what went wrong with RNZ’s online news
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
A review of RNZ's online news has called for greater oversight and enforcement of standards after a crisis sparked...
Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The media sector in the Pacific should be supported with an enabling environment to...
Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
RNZ Mediawatch
Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...
How Washington teamed up with PNG to pip Canberra for ‘control’...
COMMENTARY: A special correspondent in Port Moresby
As an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Papua New Guinea government, I have to...
Donna Miles-Mojab: Is there such a thing as unbiased reporting?
COMMENTARY: By Donna Miles-Mojab
Recently, there was a serious revelation that some wire service reports were edited, without attribution, by an individual employee of our...
Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific...
Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...
Today FM hosts abruptly taken off air and told ‘play music’...
RNZ News
The Mediaworks' radio station Today FM abandoned scheduling today when presenters broke from programming to question the future of their employer.
Broadcasters told their...
New Caledonia’s lone daily newspaper ceases publication after 52 years
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's only daily newspaper, Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes, has folded after the commercial court accepted the publishing company's request for its liquidation.
The court...
Gavin Ellis: Thank God for news media in a storm
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
The brave little shrubs are doing their valiant best to stay intact as a plant pot skids across our balcony in...
Journalism at crossroads but must ‘stick to principles’ to regain trust,...
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...
Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is unlikely that the Mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, took any lessons from the city’s devastating floods but the rest...
Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake...
RNZ News
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is under fire for calling New Zealand journalists "drongos", blaming them for having to cancel a round of tennis...
John Mitchell: Media freedom, public interest and The Fiji Times
By John Mitchell in Suva
In any true democracy, the role of journalists and the media outlets they represent is to inform the people so...
‘Warmest welcome you can imagine’ – Ardern opens NZ doors to...
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News tourism reporter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone on a marketing blitz to reel Australians to Aotearoa New Zealand's shores.
It...
Mad, bad or mostly moderate? Media’s mixed message on protest
RNZ Mediawatch
There was plenty of condemnation of New Zealand's illegal occupation of Parliament in the media at first -- but this week some media...
Solomon Islands – where the world news talent is all local
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sue Ahearn, co-editor of The Pacific Newsroom
Did you notice anything different about the news coverage of the recent unrest in Honiara?
Those...
Rappler’s Maria Ressa, Russia’s Dmitry Muratov win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 announced in Oslo today. Video: Rappler livestream
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines and...
Gavin Ellis: Lockdown musings over media lessons from a pandemic
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
It appears we are a nation of selfish malcontents for whom enough is never enough.
That is one of...
Pacific National Radio Trust welcomes public funding boost for Pasifika journalism
Pacific Media Network News
National Pacific Radio Trust has won a year's funding from NZ On Air’s Public Interest Journalism Fund to enhance its reporting...