Pacific resources: Pacific newspapers

website updated once a week with the previous week's stories and holds a 6 month archive

arguably the most influential Pacific daily newspaper in the region. Although recent issues are freely available on the FT website, since the 2006 coup and especially Easter 2009, state censorship has meant that the online edition has significant gaps.
NOTE: AUT Library holds the full text of FT, 1997-2007, on microfilm.

regional monthly news magazine based in Fiji
Also availble full text in the Niustext database (go to the Library Databases list)

Founded by head of Tonga Media Council, Pesi Fonua, updated almost daily with a substantial archive

daily news and current affairs commentary on New Zealand and the Pacific

owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp.)

Samoa’s biggest group of newspapers producing three titles during the week: the Samoa Observer published from Monday to Friday, the Weekend Observer published on Saturday, and the Sunday Samoan on Sunday

daily newspaper online from the Soloman Islands

a locally owned news and information organisation based in the Solomon Islands

Written and edited by student journalists on the Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Bachelor of Communication Studies courses at AUT University

is a new locally-owned newspaper, focusing on local investigative journalism, published by The Hawaii Independent Corporation, a Hawaii corporation

owned by the Malaysian logging company Rimbunan Hijau

with a two year online archive of stories