Interviews

NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by global decline

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand has slumped to an unprecedented 19th place in the annual Reporters Without Borders 2024 World Press Freedom Index survey released today on World Press Freedom...

OPM’s Bomanak accuses UN of failing to uphold decolonisation role over West Papua

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan resistance leader has condemned the United Nations role in allowing Indonesia to “integrate”...

Caitlin Johnstone: CNN compares campus protesters to Nazis in stunning propaganda segment

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life,...

Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists blocked from sailing to Gaza but vow to keep trying to break siege

DEMOCRACY NOW! With Amy Goodman AMY GOODMAN: As the official death toll in Gaza nears 35,000, ceasefire talks are...

Pacific alliance condemns France over bid to ‘derail’ Kanaky decolonisation

Asia Pacific Report A Pacific civil society alliance has condemned French neocolonial policies in Kanaky New Caledonia, saying Paris...

Pacific journos urged not to let geopolitics ‘skew their narratives’

RNZ Pacific The editor of the Marshall Islands Journal, Giff Johnson, is urging Pacific journalists not to be swayed by geopolitical narratives and to stay...

‘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...

ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers

SPECIAL REPORT: By Natasha Johnson When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC’s new Pacific-focused news and current affairs TV programme, The Pacific, her voice...

‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first Melanesian editor

By Sri Krishnamurthi Highly respected and convivial Koroi Hawkins has become RNZ Pacific’s first Melanesian editor after arriving in New Zealand in 2014 and says...

‘No Fiji TV broadcast tonight due to censorship’ – Rika recalls Fiji media intimidation

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...

Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’

Airstrikes ordered against civilian targets, destruction of thousands of buildings, millions displaced, nearly 3000 civilians murdered, more than 13,000 jailed, the country’s independent media...