Tag: News Media

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis asks a key question about women's rights in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover during spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid's first media...

ANALYSIS: By Chris Trotter There is something decidedly sinister about the way the right-wing media is pursuing the “elimination strategy is madness” argument so doggedly....

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has warned the news media that the country's emergency powers enable the government to target...

RNZ Pacific Susana Lei'ataua has been appointed news editor of RNZ Pacific. She will join RNZ Pacific officially in August and brings a wealth of experience,...

COMMENT: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views I have been reading the tea leaves in the bottom of the online subscription cup. My fortune-telling has been assisted...

EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer Editorial Board What a shame it had to happen as it did. Fiame Naomi Mata'afa taking the oath of office to...

ANALYSIS: By Tim Murphy and Mark Jennings, co-editors of Newsroom Less than half the New Zealand public now professes "overall trust" in news media outlets,...

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne There has been a lot of talk lately about the need for cultural change in Australia's Parliament...

TRIBUTE: By Frank Senge Kolma in Port Moresby Many will now try to recollect some experience, some exchange or brush with the Grand Chief Sir...

Asia Pacific Report The federal government must act urgently to support small Australian news outlets that could be shut out of commercial deals with Facebook...

By António Sampaio in Pante Macassar, Timor-Leste The fear that has led for years to silence dozens of children, allegedly victims of sexual abuse by...

By Sheldon Chanel in Suva Facebook’s ban on Australian news will cut off a vital source of authoritative information for the Pacific region, government and...

ANALYSIS: By Diana Bossio, Swinburne University of Technology Facebook this week made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content....

COMMENTARY: By Carmen Parahi Since 2001, I’ve worked in both mainstream news and Māori media. I love journalism but it’s a hard slog being a...

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter This week The New Zealand Herald admitted a story about resentment of Auckland's covid-19 lockdowns didn’t quite...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A new newspaper was launched on Bougainville today coinciding with the historic first elections since last year's non-binding referendum that voted...