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March 26, 2026
Radio 786 Anti-apartheid campaigner Terry Bell has died at the age of 84. A lifelong activist, journalist, and educator, Bell’s life was defined by his unwavering commitment to justice and democracy. His early journalism career spanned several South African newspapers, where he also helped found the non-racial South African Journalists’ Union. Bell was deeply involved ... <a title="Activist journalist Terry Bell – a life defined by unwavering commitment to justice and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/activist-journalist-terry-bell-a-life-defined-by-unwavering-commitment-to-justice-and-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Activist journalist Terry Bell – a life defined by unwavering commitment to justice and democracy">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – 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 focus on the rice-producing township of Vinzons in Bicol. At the time — January 2020 — ... <a title="Filipino radio storytelling and community empowerment – a Vinzons update" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/30/filipino-radio-storytelling-and-community-empowerment-a-vinzons-update/" aria-label="Read more about Filipino radio storytelling and community empowerment – a Vinzons update">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Earthwise hosts Lois and Martin Griffiths. Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region. David talks about the struggle to raise awareness of critical Pacific issues such ... <a title="Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/19/earthwise-talks-to-david-robie-on-pacific-issues-and-news-media/" aria-label="Read more about Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2023
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager A new language app developed for Gagana Samoa — the Samoan language — has been launched in Aotearoa New Zealand. Samoa Capital Radio in Wellington, the oldest Samoan radio station in Aotearoa, is behind the production and development of the app. Samoa’s Acting ... <a title="Radio station develops app to spread Gagana Samoa to the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/06/radio-station-develops-app-to-spread-gagana-samoa-to-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about Radio station develops app to spread Gagana Samoa to the world">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Radio broadcaster Federico “Ding” Gempesaw has been shot and killed in broad daylight in front of his home in Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, reports the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The IFJ and its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), condemn the murder and urge ... <a title="Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/assassins-gun-down-philippine-broadcaster-outside-home/" aria-label="Read more about Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s pro-independence leader and mayor of Faa’a, Oscar Temaru, says double standards are at play in probing him over the payment of his legal defence. Temaru commented on being held for six hours last week for questioning over the Faa’a Council’s decision to pay his legal bill in a 2019 court case, ... <a title="Temaru hits back over probe in pro-independence Radio Tefana case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/02/temaru-hits-back-over-probe-in-pro-independence-radio-tefana-case/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru hits back over probe in pro-independence Radio Tefana case">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2022
RNZ Pacific Investigators in French Polynesia have reassessed their case against the pro-independence leader Oscar Manutahi Temaru, who has challenged the seizure of his US$100,000 savings. The money was taken at the behest of the French prosecutor as part of a probe into the community radio station funding of Temaru’s defence in a trial in ... <a title="Temaru defence controversy in Radio Tefana political case revisited" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/10/temaru-defence-controversy-in-radio-tefana-political-case-revisited/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru defence controversy in Radio Tefana political case revisited">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
By Zahra Karim Didarali in Jakarta The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to tell, forcing many of them to drop coverage of issues like the environment in order to focus on the public health crisis. But for Jakarta-based Kantor Berita Radio ... <a title="Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/indonesian-radio-gets-covid-creative-to-communicate-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis">Read more</a>
