Tag: Television
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...
Tagata Pasifika celebrates 35 years on air – a pan-Pacific voice...
Tagata Pasifika is celebrating 35 years on air this year. Former hosts Foufou Susana Hukui, Reverend Elder Maligi Evile and former researcher/reporter Iulia Leilua...
‘Warmest welcome you can imagine’ – Ardern opens NZ doors to...
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News tourism reporter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone on a marketing blitz to reel Australians to Aotearoa New Zealand's shores.
It...
Gavin Ellis: Fundamental flaws in public media plans call for big...
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
The proposal for a new entity to replace Television New Zealand and RNZ has two fundamental flaws that...
Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won’t be easy – and...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The announcement of the government’s decision to merge RNZ and TVNZ into a...
RNZ and TVNZ to be folded into mega public media entity,...
RNZ News
RNZ and TVNZ will be subsidiaries of a new mega public media organisation, Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi has confirmed.
Faafoi announced the long-awaited changes...
Parliament protest: What the cameras in the crowd witnessed
SPECIAL REPORT: By Rituraj Sapkota of Māori Television
“I have never had that fear before that I might get physically hurt,” says Patrice Allen, a...
RSF refers Russian strikes on four Ukrainian TV towers for ICC...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor about Russian strikes on four radio...
MEAA condemns EMTV’s ‘assault’ on PNG journalists’ rights
MEAA News
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance’s national media section committee of elected officials has condemned the suspension of 24 Papua New Guinean TV...
Jack Lapauve: Why we walked out in protest over EMTV news...
COMMENTARY: EMTV's deputy news editor Jack Lapauve Jr in Port Moresby writes in defence of the newsroom's decision to walk out in protest over...
Protesting EMTV news staff walk out – no live 6pm news...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Papua New Guinean television station EMTV did not run its usual 6pm news bulletin last night as its journalists and news...
EMTV news team walk out in protest over suspension of their...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The national news team of Papua New Guinea's major television channel, EMTV, walked out last night in protest over a decision...
RSF condemns ‘unacceptable political meddling’ over PNG news chief suspension
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the "unacceptable political meddling" behind Sincha Dimara’s suspension as head of news and current affairs...
Media Council condemns EMTV over ‘dangerous’ suspension of news chief
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Media Council of PNG has condemned the suspension of the news chief of Papua New Guinea's major television channel, EMTV,...
Suspension of EMTV’s news chief sparks PNG journo protests
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Suspension of the news manager of Papua New Guinea's major television channel, EMTV, has sparked a flurry of protest from senior...
Covering Tonga’s volcano eruption – without communications
This video shares the ham radio communication efforts for disaster relief after the Hungas twin eruotions in Tonga on January 15. Video: Ham...