Tag: Radio

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Norris in Wellington After a week-long controversy, New Zealand’s public broadcaster Radio New Zealand (RNZ) has withdrawn a proposal to axe its classical...

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...

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...

COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 1990s listening to NBC Radio - Radio Kundu - which was informative and always...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papua New Guinea is pledging to help Bougainville strengthen its local radio services ahead of next year's historic referendum on independence,...

By RNZ Pacific China has taken over many of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's former shortwave radio frequencies into the Pacific. In response to budget cuts, the...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Operations manager of the NZ Institute for Pacific Research, Dr Evelyn Masters, presented an introduction to regional initiatives and a media...

TRIBUTE: By Geoff Lealand in Auckland David Beatson, broadcaster, editor, journalist, public intellectual and media visionary, proposed a new, or renewed, role for New Zealand...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie blasted some of the global coverage of the alleged Chinese military base plans for...

BOOKS: By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch It's often been said there are just seven stories in all of literature. If a new collection of a 150...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand broadcaster 95bFM and youth media company VICE have today announced a new content partnership that will see the two...