China trying to buy influence with Pacific media as it strengthens its presence in region
By Mackenzie Smith and Toby Mann
Concerns have been raised about foreign influence in Pacific media after it was revealed Solomon Islands’ longest-running newspaper received...
Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR
Pacific Journalism Review
Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training...
Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
RNZ Mediawatch
Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...
John Minto: Kudos to Jane Campion for saying no to apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival
By John Minto
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) congratulates New Zealand film director Jane Campion over her request for her 1989 debut film Sweetie to...
Fiji judge dismisses lawyer Richard Naidu’s guilty conviction over ‘scandalising court’ case
By Rashika Kumar in Suva
Suva lawyer Richard Naidu is a free man after the Suva High Court ruled this week that no conviction be...
Yes, Oppenheimer isn’t opening in Japan this week – but the country has a long history of cinema about the war
ANALYSIS: By Peter C. Pugsley
While Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer is opening in much of the world this week, a Japanese release date has...