‘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...
Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria breaks year-long silence in The Balance podcast
By Lincoln Tan
Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria, who quit following complaints about inappropriate workplace behaviour, has broken his silence and started a podcast...
NZ’s Media Freedom Council slams mayor Brown’s ban attempt as ‘insult to voters’
RNZ News
New Zealand’s Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today “unacceptable”.
In an...
Author-poet condemns Papuan rebel threat to shoot NZ hostage pilot if denied talks
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian author-poet and advocate for West Papuan independence has condemned a reported threat against the life of a New Zealand hostage...
‘Voice of the Voiceless’: The Pacific Media Centre as a case study of academic and research advocacy and activism
By David Robie in the Okinawan Journal of Island Studies
For more than a decade, the pioneering Pacific Media Centre at Aotearoa’s Auckland University of...
Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case
RNZ Pacific
The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...