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Kiribati Community In NZ Launches Migrant Website
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 9:31 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (The Kiribati Independent/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Micronesian Foundation has launched an online news website, The Kiribati Independent, with the aim of connecting the 2000-strong i-Kiribati community in New Zealand with the Pacific ... More >>
NZ MP Welcomes Court Action Over Loss Of Language Books
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 9:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): An opposition MP in New Zealand says he supports a coalition taking court action over the Ministry of Education’s move to suspend the producing of Pacific language books for schools. More >>
AAP Newsman Leaves Papua New Guinea
Monday, 28 March 2011, 9:55 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (Malum Nalu Blogspot/Pacific Media Watch): The birth of a baby boy outside Goroka, Eastern Highlands, named Kevin Rudd Jr rates among the highlights of the three-year career of Australian Associated Press Papua New Guinea correspondent Ilya ... More >>
Somare to Abide by Tribunal Ruling
Monday, 28 March 2011, 9:46 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (Radio Australia/Pacific Media Watch): The lawyer for Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, says Somare will abide by a tribunal decision to suspend him from office for two weeks, Radio Australia reports. More >>
KPI To Appeal Verdict On RCTI Gossip Program
Monday, 28 March 2011, 9:31 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (Jakarta Globe/Pacific Media Watch): The national broadcasting regulator says it will appeal a ruling to cancel the temporary suspension of infotainment program Silet (“Razor”) for its controversial coverage of the Mount Merapi eruptions. More >>
Broadcaster Shot Dead In Capital
Monday, 28 March 2011, 9:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
MANILA (Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility/Pacific Media Watch): Exactly on the sixth anniversary of the killing of a woman journalist in 2005, another woman broadcaster was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in Malabon City on 24 March 2011. More >>
Former PMW Editor Wins AUT Thesis Award
Monday, 28 March 2011, 9:27 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre/Pacific Media Watch): A former contributing editor of the Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch project was honoured last night at the annual AUT University awards for the School of Communication Studies. More >>
Ti Vanuatu Restates Coup Risk Amid Police Woes
Monday, 28 March 2011, 9:25 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT VILA (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): The president of the Vanuatu chapter of Transparency International, Marie Noelle Ferrieux-Patterson, has no regrets over her statement that if political corruption is not dealt with, the country could ... More >>
Taiwanese Grant Boosts Kiribati State Radio Reach
Monday, 28 March 2011, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre/Pacific Media Watch): Kiribati’s state radio, a division of the Broadcasting and Publications Authority, began broadcasting today on a new frequency of 1440 KHTZ, thanks to a grant of almost AUD$137,000 from the ... More >>
'Intrepid Traveller' Wins First RNZI Prize
Friday, 25 March 2011, 9:34 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre/Pacific Media Watch): A young graduate who topped the Asia-Pacific Journalism course at AUT University has won the inaugural Radio New Zealand International prize for regional reporting. More >>
Shaping Up - Ni-Vanuatu Women In Action
Friday, 25 March 2011, 9:31 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT VILA (AUT University/Pacific Media Centre/Pacific Media Watch): With the assistance of Auckland University of Technology, the Ministry of Health Vanuatu will next week launch a programme for female civil servants to reduce risk factors for noncommunicable ... More >>
Education Official Hits Out At 'Junk Food' Media
Friday, 25 March 2011, 9:17 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Centre/Pacific Media Watch): The media has become the storyteller in most homes in Fiji, says a senior Education Ministry official. More >>
Earthquakes And Radio
Thursday, 24 March 2011, 9:24 am | Pacific Media Watch
WELLINGTON (Radio Heritage Foundation/Pacific Media Watch): During the past month cities in both New Zealand and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region have been shattered by terrible earthquakes..and people have been reminded again how vital radio is to ... More >>
Ministry Highlights Idea
Thursday, 24 March 2011, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's Education Ministry has called for a media philosophy where readers determine what they want to learn, read and hear from the media. More >>
China's Xinhua News Agency Opens Office In Suva
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 9:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia/Pacific Media Watch): China's state-run media XINHUA opening up an office in Fiji is a sign of growing relations between the two counties. More >>
CNRT And Fretilin Condemn Threats To Journalists
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 9:25 am | Pacific Media Watch
DILI (Diario Nacional/Pacific Media Watch): Timor-Leste's National Congress for the Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) and Fretilin MPs have strongly condemned a close security protection officer (CSP) who recently threatened a reporter from the Timorese public ... More >>
Resort Hosts Australian Travel Journalists
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 9:24 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): Australian travel journalists got a taste of Fiji at the weekend when they were hosted by the Outrigger on the Lagoon Fiji Resort. More >>
Leak Reveals Radio Fund 'Double Dipping'
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 3:20 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (The National/Pacific Media Watch): The warning of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami last week in Papua New Guinea's New Ireland province could not be relayed to the outer islands because of the alleged abuse of K100 million by the National ... More >>
Anger Over Pacific Language Books
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 9:34 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (TVNZ One News/Pacific Media Watch): A group of Pacific Islands parents are taking New Zealand's Ministry of Education to court over its decision to indefinitely suspend producing Pacific language books. More >>
Power Greater Than Justice?
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 9:29 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): It has now been more than two weeks since the assault on myself as Daily Post publisher by a group of men blatantly led by Minister Harry Iouko, and despite more than a dozen eyewitness statements ... More >>
