Multimedia, innovation vital for Pacific journalism, says academic
By Ben Bilua in Suva Multimedia skills and innovation are key to adapting to the changing media landscape, says US academic Professor Debora Wenger as newsmakers around the world continue to grapple...
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Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals
By Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald in Sydney In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New York and became a household name, Catherine Hay Thomson...
View ArticleIndonesia ‘arrests’ Mongabay editor – one month after first detaining him
Pacific Media Watch Philip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the non-profit environmental science news outlet Mongabay, has been arrested for an alleged visa violation in Palangkaraya, Central...
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Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ Pacific media archive
A video made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pacific Journalism Review in 2014. Video: Sasya Wreksono/PMC Pacific Media Watch Tuwhera, the open access repository and publisher of Auckland...
View Article‘We can’t keep working like this’– a journalist’s plea to Timorese officials
OPINION: By Antonio Sampaio in Dili The Timor-Leste authorities have to improve significantly the conditions in which journalists are working to cover the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. As the only...
View ArticleReporting the covid-19 unknown: How reporters in Philippines do their job
By Imelda V. Abano in Manila The novel coronavirus now sweeping the globe has left many countries struggling to cope with rising numbers of infections and journalists grappling with how to best cover...
View ArticlePacific coronavirus: NZ’s big decision, j-schools and media closures
Pacific Media Watch Into the fourth week of lockdown in New Zealand, and today’s weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern Cross radio programme covers what journalism schools are doing in the Asia-Pacific...
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Vanuatu media group condemns ‘intimidation’ of woman journalist
By RNZ Pacific Vanuatu’s media advocacy group Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV) has condemned what it calls intimidation of a local journalist by airport security and local police. This was...
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Alexandra Wake: In defence of journalism schools and underpinning civil society
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake in Melbourne How disappointing to read another opinion piece in Australian papers repeating time-old arguments that fail to acknowledge the excellent education in...
View ArticleTimorese journalists protest over plan to turn defamation into crime
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Timor-Leste’s Journalist Association (AJTL) and journalism students marched through the streets of the capital Dili today calling on the government to scrap plans to change...
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PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Hostile media environments in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and West Papua pose growing challenges to the Melanesian region’s democracies, says Pacific Journalism Review in its...
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Cook Islands News appoints new editor and senior editorial team
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Cook Islands News has appointed senior journalist Rashneel Kumar to lead the paper through a challenging time for the country and the world. In a news announcement today,...
View ArticleAJF calls for Chinese authorities to free ‘hostage’ TV anchor Cheng Lei
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Brisbane-based Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom calls for Chinese authorities to provide due process to Australian television journalist Cheng Lei and release her...
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Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for decades covered events in the Middle East and elsewhere as a...
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Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi based...
By Katarina Williams, a senior reporter of Stuff Stuff has introduced a new company charter with Te Tiriti o Waitangi at its core, after a major internal investigation uncovered evidence of racism and...
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Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered “live” in Auckland and “virtually” from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their projects and...
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Climate crisis, coronavirus and journalism research methodologies top latest...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Climate crisis and the global coronavirius pandemic are key themes along with new research methodology strategies in the latest Pacific Journalism Review edition published...
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Gallery: PMC celebrates Pacific ‘reset’ vision and farewells founding director
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk Pacific Media Centre students, staff and journalists gathered at Auckland University of Technology this week and debated reset strategies for the future in a...
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RSF hails UK court blocking of US bid to extradite Julian Assange
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the January 4 ruling of UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser to block the United States’ attempt to extradite WikiLeaks...
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USP Journalism dedicates awards to media ‘champion’ David Robie
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva The 20th University of the South Pacific Journalism Student Awards in Suva last month were dedicated to retiring Pacific media professor Dr David Robie. In his remarks to the...
View ArticleSamoa Observer: AG should investigate her own management
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer Editorial Board In the past month, we have made a new pen pal: the Attorney-General of Samoa, no less, Savalenoa Mareva Betham-Annandale. The arrival of her latest...
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MEAA rethinks press council role and backs need for Facebook media code
MEAA video message on YouTube. Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) union is reconsidering its involvement in the Australian Press Council and has appealed to...
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Social media ‘bullshit’ threatens coping with covid-19 outbreak in PNG
By Sue Ahearn, founder of The Pacific Newsroom and former editor, ABC International A PNG member of Parliament died from covid-19 this week but it still wasn’t enough to convince many Papua New...
View ArticleScott Waide: Memo to our younger people – go out to rural PNG and tell their...
COMMENT: By Scott Waide Senior EMTV journalist and bureau chief Scott Waide in Papua New Guinea’s second city Lae this week called time on his inspirational 25-year relationship with the television...
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How NZ’s Public Interest Journalism Fund can help ‘normalise’ diversity
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific ReportThe announcement in February of a new $55 million, three-year Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) by Minister for Broadcasting and Media...
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MEAA calls for halt to ‘slow erosion’ of media to safeguard democracy
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Australia’s union for journalists says Australian journalism is in crisis after years of disruption, undermining and neglect, and swift action is needed to halt the...
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New USP research paper explores journalism culture in the region
By Pita Ligaiula in Suva What are the views of Pacific journalists on professional ethical issues and what pressures affect their work? What is the age, experience, qualifications and gender breakdown...
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Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’
RNZ News Afghan women are accusing the Taliban of using a pregnant New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can offer women rights. Charlotte Bellis wrote an open letter on...
View ArticleGavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is very wrong when news organisations in New...
View ArticleGavin Ellis: Fundamental flaws in public media plans call for big fixes
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views The proposal for a new entity to replace Television New Zealand and RNZ has two fundamental flaws that must be fixed if it is to gain the public’s trust. The...
View ArticleHow China is manipulating the information war in the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Sue Ahearn As China seeks greater influence in the South Pacific, its manipulation of local news outlets is having a serious impact on media independence. Most Pacific media organisations...
View ArticleAdvocacy group calls on NZ to ‘end silence’ over Assange extradition
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A media freedom advocacy group has called on New Zealand to end its silence over the Julian Assange case in what it called a “dark day for global press freedom”. The UK...
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Nobel laureate Maria Ressa calls for journalists to fight ‘Devil’s megaphone’
East-West Center Nobel Peace Prize laureate and press freedom champion Maria Ressa wasn’t intending to make breaking news when she planned her keynote address at the East-West Center’s 2022...
View ArticleAjay Bhai Amrit: Freedom of the press – Fiji’s ranking a national shame
COMMENTARY: By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva Bula readers. As some of you might be aware, I am a member of various media bodies and human rights international bodies such as Amnesty International and...
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Kabul one year on – cat-and-mouse with the Taliban intelligence agents
RNZ News A year on from the fall of Kabul, Australian reporter Lynne O’Donnell returned to Afghanistan — and now says she’ll never go back. O’Donnell returned for three days last month, only to be...
View Article‘Don’t forget our past – write about us,’ says Vanuatu founding father
By Agnes Herbert in Port Vila A founding father and former politician has urged young journalists to write more about Vanuatu’s history. In a presentation to trainee journalists, Pastor Sethy John...
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Mediawatch: Coverage vital for NZ’s democracy but fact-checking in short supply
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer Once again Aotearoa New Zealand’s local elections were plagued by low voter turnout and a lack of engagement. Is the media coverage, or lack...
View ArticlePNG’s Masiu denies ‘control of media’ but calls for ‘accountability’
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Communication Minister Timothy Masiu has hit back at recent reports termed as “inaccurate” over the control of media in Papua New Guinea from his ministerial...
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‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first Melanesian editor
By Sri Krishnamurthi Highly respected and convivial Koroi Hawkins has become RNZ Pacific’s first Melanesian editor after arriving in New Zealand in 2014 and says he is “truly humbled” after nearly a...
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Journalist David Robie launches new open access Café Pacific website
Pacific Media Watch Journalist, author and media academic David Robie has launched an independent news and current affairs website to complement his long-established Asia Pacific Report. While Asia...
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Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria breaks year-long silence in The...
By Lincoln Tan of The New Zealand Herald Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria, who quit following complaints about inappropriate workplace behaviour, has broken his silence and started a...
View ArticleRNZ board to begin setting up independent review of pro-Russia edits to stories
RNZ News The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of its online stories. An RNZ digital journalist has been...
View ArticleDonna Miles-Mojab: Is there such a thing as unbiased reporting?
COMMENTARY: By Donna Miles-Mojab Recently, there was a serious revelation that some wire service reports were edited, without attribution, by an individual employee of our national broadcaster, RNZ....
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Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist,...
OBITUARY: By David Robie New Zealand-adopted Fiji journalist, sports writer, national news agency reporter, anti-coup activist, media freedom advocate, storyteller and mentor Sri Krishnamurthi has...
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Shailendra Singh: How media can help unravel Fiji’s social cohesion puzzle
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh in Suva Conflict and insufficient social cohesion are the biggest challenges in Fiji, and all and any efforts to mitigate and address this situation are laudable. The...
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Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza
By Binoy Kampmark The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against chair Ita Buttrose and managing director...
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Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on...
By Monika Singh in Suva New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a calling and not just a job. Dr Robie, who is also the...
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‘Precarious’ – newsmakers dissect state and future of Pacific journalism
PACNEWS If the pen is mightier than the sword, then an army of journalists has assembled in Fiji’s capital to discuss the state and future of the industry in the region. The Pacific Media Conference...
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Trailblazer of Fijian Drua Media: How Kara Ravulo sailed unforeseen waters
By Paige Schouw, Queensland University of Technology Kara Ravulo was halfway through her university studies when her father became sick, ultimately leading her to defer school to help support her...
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Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the moguls to the...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne Until recently, Elon Musk was just a wildly successful electric car tycoon and space pioneer. Sure, he was...
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