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VIDEO: Cook Islands provider a 'one-stop shop' for the mega-rich
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Nicky Hager WELLINGTON (Center for Public Integrity / Pacific Media Watch): The story of Portcullis TrustNet and its birthplace — the Cook Islands — is in many ways the story of the...
NZ: IT outage hits Auckland University, AUT and largest j-school
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
AUCKLAND (Stuff / Pacific Media Watch): Auckland University and AUT University staff and students - including at New Zealand's largest and most new media savvy journalism school - have been...
FIJI: Times contempt fine may force its closure, says NZ editor
Thursday, February 21, 2013
WELLINGTON (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand’s Sunday Star-Times newspaper says the Fiji Times may be forced out of business after being fined F300,000 (US$170,000)...
PNG: Post-Courier makes new editorial appointments
Saturday, February 9, 2013
PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier / Pacific Media Watch): The Post-Courier has announced the appointments of senior journalist Gorethy Kenneth as chief-of-staff and Melanie Vari and Ephata Samuel as...
Fiji moguls 2: The practice and predicament of media owners
Friday, February 8, 2013
Wadan Narsey ANALYSIS: Given the problems caused by conflicts of interest in business ownership, that should be a central item on the Fiji agenda: media owners should not have any other substantial...
Out of the shadows – the real challenges of the Fiji budget
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Biman Prasad ANALYSIS: Confidence in the country will continue to grow if the constitutional process is seen to its logical conclusion through an inclusive and transparent process.
GLOBAL: Al Jazeera backgrounds TPPA - potential 'corporate coup d'etat'
Sunday, December 9, 2012
AUCKLAND (Al Jazeera / Pacific Media Watch): The 15th round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) began in New Zealand this week. Critics say trade is only a small...
GLOBAL: PJR calls for media to put more effort into ‘public trust’ models
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Journalism Review / Pacific Media Watch): Online media business models will succeed only if news organisations put more effort into regaining public trust, says Pacific Journalism...
FIJI: Repúblika Manifesto pledges to 'emerge from media shadows'
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Ricardo Morris SUVA (Republika Magazine / Pacific Media Watch): My first political memory is of the middle of 1987, as a six-year-old engulfed in the aftermath of the Pacific’s first coup d...
NZ: New Zealand Herald promises 'new dawn' with tabloid relaunch
Monday, September 10, 2012
Adam Hollingworth AUCKLAND (TV3 News / Pacific Media Watch):  The New Zealand Herald has relaunched in a tabloid format with the promise of a "new dawn".
SOLOMON IS: Regional media mourns death of Father John Lamani
Monday, September 10, 2012
HONIARA (Pacific Islands News Association / Pacific Media Watch):  The Pacific media family was today mourning the untimely passing away of one of the region’s successful indigenous...
REGION: Fiji Sun wins PANPA award for PM’s Flood Appeal
Monday, September 10, 2012
Rachna Lal SUVA (Fiji Sun / Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Sun’s strong commitment to helping the Prime Minister’s Flood Relief Appeal has helped win the newspaper a major regional media...
PNG: State can eject Nautilus from its internal waters, says critic
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Martyn Namorong OPINION: PORT MORESBY (PNG Mine Watch / Pacific Media Watch): Dr Ila Temu, the spokesperson for mining companies in Papua New Guinea recently raised a series of points in support the...
REGION: Cosmetics franchise backs Free Papua Movement
Saturday, August 25, 2012
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): Activists calling for the independence of Indonesia's West Papua region now have an unlikely ally in a cosmetics company. Stores...
Hard News: Paying for what doesn't come free any more
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Russell Brown sums up the economics of public interest journalism these days and concludes there is still some hope for independent and investigative journalism.

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