Tag: Pacific Media Watch
TVNZ’s Barbara Dreaver fires back at Fiji PM’s ‘ridiculous claims’
As Television New Zealand's news boss calls for the ban on Barbara Dreaver entering Fiji to be lifted, the Pacific correspondent has responded to...
Australian human rights lawyers defend West Papuan Morning Star mural against...
One of Australia’s leading human rights organisations has spoken out in support of the retention of a mural in Darwin’s central business district that...
PNG police officer accused of assault on female journalists at Boroko
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
A TV Wan female journalist and two National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) reporters in Papua New Guinea have been assaulted...
Brush up on perceptions of ASEAN trade partners, envoy tells NZ
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
New Zealanders need to catch up with reality about the country's trade partners in the South-East Asia region, says an...
Pacific corruption-fighters worry over online database future
Jemima Garrett reporting for Pacific Beat
Journalists, lawyers and corruption-fighters are sounding the alarm as one of the Pacific's most comprehensive online databases faces an...
Sunday profile: Pala Molisa – a radical accountant’s eye on social...
Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, onetime Vanua'aku Pati cabinet minister Sela Molisa and civil...
TJ Aumua takes on ‘niche’ job as Pacific Media Watch editor
TJ Aumua reflects on her PCF exchange scholarship in Fiji last year. PMC video
Auckland University of Technology honours graduate journalist TJ Aumua has been...
Fiji Times challenges government over exclusive advertising deal
By Talebula Kate in Suva
The Fiji Times is challenging the selection of the Fiji Sun as the government's exclusive carrier of newspaper advertisements for the...
Vanuatu PM wants public broadcaster to have nationwide coverage
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Prime Minister Charlot Salwai, who is also minister responsible for media, said it is important for Vanuatu's national broadcaster...
PCF offers Pacific exchange to keen media students
A video feedback message by TJ Aumua after her PCF media exchange internship in Fiji last year.
By TJ Aumua
New Zealand-based Pacific Cooperation Foundation has...
McCully launches new Pacific think-tank for ‘targeted research’
Ura Tabu dancers perform the Calypso medley song "Yellow Bird" at the launch of the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research last night....
New Pacific research institute gives students, staff ‘cutting edge’ chance
By Pacific Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua
The launch of the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research (NZIPR) at the University of Auckland last...
Quill award winner Adele Ferguson slams Fairfax media job cuts
Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson has accepted the Graham Perkin journalist of the year award at the state of Victoria's Quills, using her speech to...
Pasifika diaspora media book launched in NZ – first of its...
By TJ Aumua of Pacific Media Watch
A research report about Pacific media outlets in New Zealand was launched today at Auckland University of Technology...
Digicel finally granted permission to operate Sky Pacific
By Peni Shute in Suva
Digicel Fiji has been given three licenses for 12 years to fully operate Sky Pacific, six months after formally acquiring...
Two NZ student journalists off to Indonesia on media internships
Report by Pacific Media Watch
Two journalism graduates have been selected by the Asia New Zealand Foundation to take part in a media internship programme...