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November 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has defended his decision to ban the Samoa Observer in response to a joint letter from the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF). In a statement issued by the Press Secretary, Nanai Lave Tuiletufuga yesterday, the office of the Prime Minister acknowledged ... <a title="PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/pm-hits-back-at-pina-and-pff-over-samoa-observer-ethics-ban/" aria-label="Read more about PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2025
By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo of the Samoa Observer Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt says international media are “in the dark” about the reasons behind his decision to ban the Samoa Observer from government press conferences, arguing that overseas attention has created “support for one newspaper at the expense of the entire country.” He also addressed concerns ... <a title="Samoan PM takes aim at local journalists, claims overseas media ‘in the dark’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/22/samoan-pm-takes-aim-at-local-journalists-claims-overseas-media-in-the-dark/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM takes aim at local journalists, claims overseas media ‘in the dark’">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2025
Opinion/Analysis by Keith Rankin. Germany’s important election last week struggled to make the news cycle, even on Germany’s own Deutsche Welle(DW), Germany’s equivalent of Britain’s BBC. Especially (but not only) in the international media, most of the focus was on a single party (AFD, Alliance for Germany) that was never going to have the most ... <a title="OPINION: Keith Rankin – Germany’s Election 2025: Far Establishment-Right versus Far Non-Establishment-Right?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/06/opinion-keith-rankin-germanys-election-2025-far-establishment-right-versus-far-non-establishment-right/" aria-label="Read more about OPINION: Keith Rankin – Germany’s Election 2025: Far Establishment-Right versus Far Non-Establishment-Right?">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2023
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 strategies feature strongly in the latest Pacific Journalism Review. Byron C. Clark, author of the recent controversial book Fear: New Zealand’s Hostile Underworld of Extremists, and Canterbury University postgraduate researcher ... <a title="Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/01/disinformation-and-climate-crisis-governance-training-feature-in-pjr/" aria-label="Read more about Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I was concerned when the story broke last month about inappropriate subediting by RNZ staff of ‘wirecopy’ from international sources such as Reuters. The wire-tampering story broke with particular reference to stories about the war in Ukraine; and, at least for that story, it needs to be understood that Aotearoa New ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Narratives and Narrators: the curious RNZ story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/13/keith-rankin-analysis-narratives-and-narrators-the-curious-rnz-story/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Narratives and Narrators: the curious RNZ story">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2023
Paul and Selwyn deep dive into the battle to control a narrative, waged by all sides in a polarised combative world, and how modern mainstream media institutions, like Radio New Zealand, fall vulnerable in the absence of robust all-sides-considered analysis and debate.
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June 21, 2023
In this episode of A View from Afar podcast Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will deep dive into the battle to control a narrative, waged by all sides in a polarised combative world, and how modern mainstream media institutions, like Radio New Zealand, fall vulnerable in the absence of robust all-sides-considered analysis and debate.
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February 28, 2023
The National Papua New Guinea’s The National newspaper has welcomed a statement by the Information and Communication Technology Department (DICT) that the government has no wish to control the media to limit freedom of expression. Editor-in-chief Christine Pakakota said a free media provided oxygen to any country claiming to be democratic, and effectively promoting transparency ... <a title="The National welcomes government claim of no plan to control media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/28/the-national-welcomes-government-claim-of-no-plan-to-control-media/" aria-label="Read more about The National welcomes government claim of no plan to control media">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has appealed to news media that reported on intimidation against the parents and relatives of human rights lawyer Veronica Koman to immediately make corrections. Some media have revealed the identity and addresses exposing them to further violence, reports Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura. The plea comes ... <a title="‘Be professional’ plea to Indonesian journalists over risk to Koman’s family" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/11/be-professional-plea-to-indonesian-journalists-over-risk-to-komans-family/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Be professional’ plea to Indonesian journalists over risk to Koman’s family">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT by Selwyn Manning. This week, on October 27 to 28 Julian Assange appeared before a United Kingdom court defending himself against an appeal that, if successful, would see him extradited to the United States of America to face a raft of indictments that ultimately could see him spend the rest of his life ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/29/special-report-assumptions-vs-facts-how-the-assange-case-confronts-us-all/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2020
By Jose Sarito Amaral in Balibo The Jornal Independente newspaper has been awarded Timor-Leste’s mediaoutlet of the year prize in the National Press Council’s 2019 awards. Rigoberto Monteiro, executive director of Timor-Leste’s Press Council, said the Independente took out the award because of the quality of its stories and “strict adherence to the journalism code ... <a title="Jornal Independente wins annual ‘best media’ award in Timor-Leste" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/21/jornal-independente-wins-annual-best-media-award-in-timor-leste/" aria-label="Read more about Jornal Independente wins annual ‘best media’ award in Timor-Leste">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2020
By Rebecca Kuku in The National Jenelyn Kennedy … died this week at 19 in a tragic domestic violence case in Papua New Guinea. Image: EMTV News The battered body of young mother Jenelyn Kennedy lay in a morgue yesterday as relatives told of the repeated beatings she had been receiving in the past five ... <a title="The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/27/the-harrowing-picture-that-tells-a-thousand-words-about-tragedy/" aria-label="Read more about The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy">Read more</a>
