Tag: News Media
In publishing Tom Cotton, The New York Times has made a...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
When a newspaper with the authority of The New York Times chooses to publish a party-political...
Global coronavirus crisis highlights role of public service media
Pacific Media Watch
International public service media from G-7 countries have reported “strong audience increases” since the covid-19 pandemic, which they interpret as a show...
Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1
By RNZ News
Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1 to return the media company to...
O’Neill arrest featured on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
Pacific Media Watch
The arrest of former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on his arrival home in Port Moresby was featured today on...
Court ruling reveals new possible Stuff buyer in NZ media crisis
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
A High Court judgment has revealed that an entity other than New Zealand Herald owner NZME is interested in buying the...
TVNZ’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver wins Voyager media awards
Pacific Media Watch
Television New Zealand's journalists have come out on top at the annual Voyager Media Awards last night, scooping a number of awards...
A lone Māori voice raising Te Ao issues at the covid-19...
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
You might not know his face, but Māori Television’s Heta Gardiner has been one of the most valuable and...
Amidst coronavirus lockdown, biggest Philippines TV network goes off air
On Al Jazeera's The Listening Post this week: The Filipino government has forced local television network ABS-CBN off the air. Plus, covid-19 is used...
Media monopoly: Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over...
COMMENT: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Was New Zealand media giant NZME trying to pull a “fast one” when the company...
Top Philippines TV network told to close under Duterte pressure
By Filipe F. Salvosa II in Manila
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) today issued a cease-and-desist order against ABS-CBN Corporation, the major television broadcaster in...
Fiji media industry faces challenges over coronavirus disruption
By Apenisa Waqairadovu in Suva
The covid-19 coronovirus pandemic is increasingly disrupting countless industries across the world with a growing global economic crisis.
However, for the media...
A media tribute to Fiji’s late former PM Laisenia Qarase
By Anish Chand in Suva
Political leaders are known to beat around the bush when it comes to answering serious topics and when faced with...
$50m earmarked to support NZ media, mostly for broadcast outlets
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor for Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand's Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Kris Faafoi today announced the first...
Media Council calls for ‘transparency’ over coronavirus – PNG media tested
Pacific Media Watch
The PNG Media Council has called on Papua New Guinea's Joint Task Force National Operations Centre-19 to maintain "transparency and accountability" in...
IFJ criticises pay cuts for Timorese journalists in ‘frontline’ virus work
By Raimundos Oki in Dili
Journalists in Timor-Leste are facing pay cuts amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its...
NZ lockdown – day 22: Lowest case increase as pandemic bites...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has had the lowest daily increase of Covid-19 coronavirus infection cases since lockdown began last month, the Prime Minister has...
Coronavirus ‘our common enemy’ says Chinese consul – Tahiti cases hit...
Pacific Media Centre
The Chinese consul in French Polynesia, Shen Zhiliang, has described the new coronavirus causing the global Covid-19 pandemic as "our common enemy”.
He...
Coronavirus: 5 ways to manage your news consumption in times of...
ANALYSIS: By Mark Pearson of Griffith University
Thousands of employees internationally are already working from home in COVID-19 self-isolation because of their recent travel, related...
CNN Philippines temporarily goes off air as broadcast building disinfected
Pacific Media Watch
CNN Philippines temporarily stopped broadcasting today after another tenant of the building in the capital Manila where it is located confirmed a...
EMTV staff protest over sacking of ‘flawless’ news manager Neville Choi
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's EMTV news and current affairs manager Neville Choi has been sacked after six years of service in this...
Gallery: Global media cover historic New Caledonia independence referendum
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 100 journalists covered the historic New Caledonian independence referendum last weekend, with media from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and...
Tongan scholars lodge protests over broadcaster’s Pacific ‘leeches’ jibe
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Tongan community leaders and top scholars in New Zealand will complain to the Human Rights Commission against broadcaster...