Friday, February 3, 2012
Ellen Tiamu
PORT MORESBY (The National / Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinean officials have confirmed that 238 passengers have been rescued from waters off the coast of Finschhafen, Morobe...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia's Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch): In November 2011, a delegation of journalists from the Asia Pacific region visited Australia as part of a media development program. The program...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Geraldene Coutts MELBOURNE (Radio Australia Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch):The Pacific Journalism Review has launched a new website - archiving regional media research dating back almost two decades.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Major media freedom surveys back NZ - but not other Pacific countries. Mediawatch interview.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Television New Zealand has profiled AUT journalism student and Kidzone presenter Kayne Peters in its IAMTV programme.
Peters recently completed a postgraduate diploma in communications studies (journalism) at AUT...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
WELLINGTON (Radio New Zealand / Pacific Media Watch): The massive Freeport mine in Indonesia’s Papua province has been brought to a standstill by a strike by 8000 of its workers; a US federal appeals court in...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): Pacific issues have not featured heavily in the election campaign in New Zealand so far.
Kiwis vote on November 26 in an election which pollsters are predicting...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
SYDNEY (SBS Television / Pacific Media Watch): A group of New Caledonians have just completed an historic trip to the Torres Strait islands.
Their journey reconnected family and descendants who brought Christianity...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Graham Davis OPINION: The decision by the Nine Entertainment Company to enter into a six figure deal with the parents of a 14-year-old boy arrested in Bali for drug possession is breathtaking, even by the lamentable...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Tom Iggulden and ABC Lateline staff
SYDNEY (ABC News / Pacific Media Watch): Leaks from the media have forced the Federal Government to kill off the tender process for the $223 million Australia Network contract...
Saturday, October 29, 2011
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch): A New Zealand opposition MP wants Kiwi police to leave the Indonesian province of Papua.
They are there to train their local counterparts in the...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Step Vaessen JAKARTA (Al Jazeera / Pacific Media Watch): Exclusive footage - Indonesian forces have raided a national congress of the Papuan independence movement, reportedly killing six of its supporters and arresting...
Friday, October 21, 2011
Alex Perrottet AUCKLAND (95bFM / Pacific Media Watch):The Pacific Media Centre's latest report on media freedom in the Pacific lists West Papua and Fiji as the main offenders of freedom of the press and freedom of...
Monday, October 17, 2011
DILI (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): East Timor has undergone a hectic and sometimes fragile transformation from oppressed colony to emerging democracy. And the experience has proved especially challenging for...
Friday, October 14, 2011
Bruce Hill: MELBOURNE: (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): The way events in Fiji are portrayed in the overseas media has been criticised by some as one sided.
