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Talamua Online News is the digital arm of Talamua Media, an Apia publishing house led by veteran journalist Apulu Lance Polu. One of Samoa's longest-running independent online news services, it reports in English on politics, business, sport and culture, drawing on decades of local magazine and radio journalism.

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Is Talamua left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?

Crosswire lists Talamua as Center within Samoa's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.

Read Talamua beside another title from Samoa and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Digital-native outlets reorder their front pages continuously in response to reader behaviour, so Talamua may look different an hour from now — reload it alongside a print-cycle title and you can see which stories have staying power and which are traffic spikes. Because Talamua is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning Samoa title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

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