Tag: Radio
Gunmen shoot dead Philippines radio journalist outside his home
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A radio journalist has been shot dead outside his home by two gunmen on a motorcycle, Philippines police said - four...
Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis
By Zahra Karim Didarali
The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to...
Tragic death of Jenelyn Kennedy and media ethics aired on Southern...
Pacific Media Watch
Host Sherry Zhang interviewed the director of the Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, about the tragic life and death of Jenelyn...
NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing,...
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow...
Crimes NZ: David Robie on the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
From RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
On 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace environmental ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an Auckland wharf by two bombs...
Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed...
Senator outrages Tahiti government with ‘brutal virus crisis’ criticism
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party's two members of...
Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Philippine authorities to appoint a special independent team to investigate yesterday’s "shocking murder" of an...
Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep...
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News
Tonga has fallen five places to lie 50th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index.
In last year's index, compiled...
Pacific Beat: How Pacific governments use coronavirus crisis to curb media
By Radio Australia
There have been very few new covid-19 cases confirmed in the Pacific this week.
The total number of reported cases since March stands...
Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time
Pacific Media Watch
From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an "authoritarianism creep" by governments in the...
Follow rules or face 24-hour curfew in Fiji, warns Bainimarama
By Indra Singh in Suva
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says that if Fijians continue to disregard the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic directives from authorities, a nationwide...
Southern Cross: Fate of community, local language papers in the balance
Pacific Media Watch
During New Zealand's national Covid-19 lockdown, educational institutions have been changing the way they function or have shut down during this period.
Auckland...
Coronavirus threat to Pacific, Papuan students in NZ and a starfish...
Pacific Media Watch
The Pacific Media Centre's weekly Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM has featured the latest Pacific news brought to you by Pacific...
NZ’s classical music station not safe yet – innovation and leadership...
By Michael Norris in Wellington
After a week-long controversy, New Zealand’s public broadcaster Radio New Zealand (RNZ) has withdrawn a proposal to axe its classical...
Radio storytelling and community empowerment in Philippines
By David Robie in Manila
Operating out of a modest three-roomed rooftop suite overlooking the local marketplace in the rice-producing Bicol township of Vinzons, a...
Guyon Espiner: Farewell Morning Report – what I won’t be apologising...
COMMENTARY: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ Morning Report presenter
After five years and 1000 shows I'm switching off the 4am alarm.
This is my final week on...
Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’
COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae
I grew up in the 1990s listening to NBC Radio - Radio Kundu - which was informative and always...
Caroline Tiriman – a runaway who became Tok Pisin voice of...
PROFILE: By Scott Waide in Lae
For a Tolai girl growing up in Papua New Guinea between 1960 and 1970, career options were very limited....
Protests over ‘captive’ photojournalist, Confucius film featured on 95bfm
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 95bfm Jemima Huston is joined by AUT Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie and reporter Rahul Bhattarai about the...
Radio 531pi’s Brian Sagala talks nuke-free Pacific with David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 531pi Breakfast Talanoa host Brian Sagala has talked about the Rarotonga Treaty with Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie.
"It...
Shortwave radio saves lives and foreign aid dollars, says McGarry
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Vanuatu has appealed to Australia to restore shortwave radio services to the Pacific region, after they were switched off by the...