Tag: Television
TVNZ tightens its belt with ‘tough calls’ citing ad revenue slump
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Aotearoa New Zealand's public television broadcaster TVNZ is planning significant cuts to content production, programmes and operational spending...
‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty
By Alice Lolohea of Tagata Pasifika
Twenty five broadcasters from 13 Pacific countries touched down in Auckland recently for the Pacific Broadcasters conference.
A meet and...
Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby
When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...
ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers
Introducing ABC's The Pacific - first episode. Video: ABC News
SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson
When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC's...
Mediawatch on Gabrielle: ‘I’m proud to be working on this newspaper’
A powerful day in the history of the Gisborne Herald. Video: Gisborne Herald
RNZ Mediawatch
New Zealand's media were in emergency mode yet again this week,...
Lice Movono: Hopes for the return of press freedom in Fiji
ABC Pacific
Veteran Fijian journalist Netani Rika and his wife were resting in their living room when suddenly a Molotov cocktail went crashing through their...
‘No Fiji TV broadcast tonight due to censorship’ – Rika recalls...
By Lice Movono in Suva
Veteran Fijian journalist Netani Rika and his wife were resting in their living room when he was suddenly woken, startled...
Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is unlikely that the Mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, took any lessons from the city’s devastating floods but the rest...
Tony Fala: Pelé – a tribute from Aotearoa and Oceania
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
Edson Arantes do Nascimento passed away at the age of 82 after a brave battle with colon cancer in Brazil on...
A NZ documentary revival spotlights crime and injustice
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
A recent revival of local prime-time TV documentaries has highlighted some thorny social issues and raised awkward questions...
BBC at 100: the future for global news and challenges facing...
ANALYSIS: By Simon Potter, University of Bristol
The BBC celebrated its 100th birthday last Tuesday. It came as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences...
TVNZ’s media marriage at first sight – ending in tears or...
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Media execs and concerned citizens alike aired their fears about the government’s public media plan -- and...
The ABC’s role in Australia’s Pacific reset – valued and highly...
ANALYSIS: By Claire M. Gorman
The Australian government is moving fast to reset relations with Australia’s Pacific partners, including a larger Pacific role for the...
The merger of TVNZ and RNZ needs to build trust in...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato
With only six days left for submissions to the select committee examining...
Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster
RNZ Pacific
The Solomon Islands government has prompted anger by ordering the censorship of the national broadcaster.
The government of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has forbidden...
Back on stage – Pacific Music Awards gig banishes covid blues
By Susana Suisuiki and Finau Fonua of RNZ Pacific
The Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, Auckland came alive with music, glitz and glam for the...
NZ’s Ashley Bloomfield bows out – a look at his key...
RNZ News
After guiding New Zealand through two and a half years of a pandemic, Dr Ashley Bloomfield's time as Director-General of Health has come...
TVNZ head of news and current affairs Paul Yurisich resigns after...
RNZ News
TVNZ's head of news and current affairs, Paul Yurisich, has resigned after a review into the hiring of presenter Kamahl Santamaria.
TVNZ released its...
Al Jazeera obtains image of bullet that killed its journalist –...
The bullet that killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Ala Jazeera investigation
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
An investigation by Al Jazeera has obtained an image of...
NZ public broadcaster faces ‘political headache’ over Breakfast anchor saga
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The "sorry saga" of former Breakfast celebrated host Kamahl Santamaria's abrupt departure from Television New Zealand last month has created a...
RSF calls for independent probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s West Bank...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Israel's fatal shooting of leading Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh as she covered clashes in the West Bank city of...
Journalist blames starving of PNG province news on EMTV dispute
By Prianka Srinivasan of ABC Pacific Beat
A senior Papua New Guinea journalist says an ongoing dispute between journalists and management at television broadcaster EMTV...