Analysis

Filipino radio storytelling and community empowerment – a Vinzons update

By David Robie in Vinzons, Philippines More than five years ago I wrote an article for the Pacific Media Centre addressing community radio broadcasting in the Philippines, with a special...

Cole Martin: The Gaza ceasefire isn’t the end – what six months in Palestine showed me

Returning to Aotearoa after half a year in the occupied West Bank, Cole Martin says a peace deal...

Chris Hedges: Remove curse of Gaza genocide before it becomes the norm

This lecture “Requiem for Gaza” was delivered to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia...

Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and looked away

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel flipped out and killed 45 Palestinians after running over their own bomb

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone In today’s news, Israel’s stupid genocidal rapists ran over an unexploded ordnance from their own...

Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’ referendum

Brief reports have surfaced about the separate bilateral meetings of the Kanaky New Caledonia pro- and anti- independence representatives with French Prime Minister Élisabeth...

Media challenges in a digital world – a Pacific perspective (Part two)

This is part of a keynote address by Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie at the 2015 University of the South Pacific (USP)...

Media challenges in a digital world – a Pacific perspective (Part one)

In a keynote address at the 2015 University of the South Pacific (USP) journalism awards, Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie, formerly head...

Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific coverage

Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...

Africa’s highway takes shape – bureaucrats, mud and all

Flashback to a cover story in African Development magazine in April 1974. The Trans-African Highway (TAH) was expected to ease trade and other contacts...

Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in...