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June 13, 2025 • 36 mins

Ambition and hard work are NOT enough to keep a newspaper running. And is NOT always safe.


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VANUATU DAILY POST

30 Years of Struggle (Including Fistfights) for Free Media

  • 00:24 Intro
  • 02:12 The Trading Post Shows Promise
  • 04:17 A Financial Lifeline Through a Phone Book
  • 06:06 Anti-Government Label, But a Friendly Prime Minister
  • 07:52 Attacks on Journalists. Threats, Fists, and a Chair
  • 09:19 Deportation and Return of the Editor-in-Chief. Meet Vanuatu Daily Post
  • 13:01 First with Information, First in Color, and First with Problems
  • 16:01 Promoting Tourism. For Free
  • 18:43 Minister in the Newsroom. Leading a Gang of Thugs
  • 22:14 The End of the Neil-Jones Era
  • 25:20 First Threats Within 30 Minutes
  • 27:47 The First Woman at the Helm of Vanuatu Daily Post
  • 30:33 The Publishing Director with a Black Mark. From the Government, of Course
  • 33:47 Vanuatu in the Digital World
  • 36:19 Outro


Ambition and hard work are not enough to keep a newspaper running. The most popular title in exotic Vanuatu today nearly shared the fate of its many forgotten predecessors. But fate had other plans - thanks to an unexpected reunion and... a phone book. What followed was even more interesting. And not always safe.


Story developed and told by Małgorzata and Bartłomiej Dwornik from the online weekly magazine Reporterzy.info.

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