TJ Aumua
TJ Aumua is Pacific Media Watch freedom project contributing editor for the Pacific Media Centre (2016). She is a recent graduate of Auckland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours) degree and with a BCS majoring in journalism and a minor in screen writing. TJ is also a contributor for the PMC Online and Asia Pacific Report and has been a recent summer research intern with Pacific Journalism Review.
More female Pacific and Māori youth needed for techno future, says...
"Technology is essential for providing Pacific youth with better opportunities for their future." This was a key message at the Pacific Wave "Prosperous Futures through...
Pacific Profile: Jale Samuwai Curuki – ‘If you’re still a climate...
Report and video story by TJ Aumua for Asia Pacific Report
Name: Jale Samuwai Curuki
Age: 30
Occupation: PhD candidate, University of the South Pacific
Passion: Accounting, climate...
Pacific voices: Connecting with Samoan language, myths and culture
Language and culture can tell us a lot about where we come from. For these New Zealand-born Samoans, this at the heart of truly...
Brush up on perceptions of ASEAN trade partners, envoy tells NZ
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
New Zealanders need to catch up with reality about the country's trade partners in the South-East Asia region, says an...
Pacific Profile: Jenny Jiva – ‘Climate change is very real now’
Report and video story by TJ Aumua
Name: Jenny Jiva
Age: 23
Occupation: Masters student, University of the South Pacific
Passion: Pacific diplomacy and climate change
Country: Fiji
Jenny Jiva,...
Fiji’s Daku village people adapt to challenge of rising sea
Biu Naitasi, Daku's headman, featured on TJ Aumua's video from Daku.
By TJ Aumua in Daku, Fiji Islands
Rising sea levels are a major threat to...
Researchers explore Pacific Ocean’s hidden deep ‘secrets’
Research expeditions can involve newly discovered species. This video shows a pale-winged creature dubbed "the ghost fish". It was discovered by the Schmidt Ocean...
Pacific crop centre develops food strategies for climate change
By TJ Aumua in Suva
Severe weather patterns and cyclonic activity have become increasingly hyperactive in the South Pacific with climate change as the key...
Pacific youth face uncertain future over climate change, says leader
TJ Aumua's video report on youth's fears over their homelands. PMC on Demand
By TJ Aumua
The effects of climate change on Pacific island nations like...
Poisonous starfish threatens survival of Pacific coral reefs
TJ Aumua's video report "Scientists take on Pacific crown of thorns starfish threat".
By TJ Aumua in Suva
The crown-of-thorns phenomenon may sound like something from...
‘Invisible’ Pacific, indigenous presence at UN disappoints NZ team
By TJ Aumua
Six of the Auckland participants who attended the UN Commission of the Status of Women held in New York in March have...
PCF offers Pacific exchange to keen media students
A video feedback message by TJ Aumua after her PCF media exchange internship in Fiji last year.
By TJ Aumua
New Zealand-based Pacific Cooperation Foundation has...
New Pacific research institute gives students, staff ‘cutting edge’ chance
By Pacific Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua
The launch of the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research (NZIPR) at the University of Auckland last...
Pasifika diaspora media book launched in NZ – first of its...
By TJ Aumua of Pacific Media Watch
A research report about Pacific media outlets in New Zealand was launched today at Auckland University of Technology...
Vanuatu DPM slams kidnap, attack on woman: ‘Enough is enough’
By TJ Aumua
The kidnapping and attack on a local Vanuatu female tourism manager, Florence Lengkon, has stirred strong criticism of violence against women in...
Fiji community in NZ rally in support for disaster aftermath
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
Auckland’s Fiji community have mobilised together to action disaster relief efforts for their families back home in the Fiji Islands.
Community...
Tourist mood in Fiji but no holiday in newsrooms
Report by Pacific Media Centre
By TJ Aumua
OPINION: I felt the heat of Fiji’s tropical climate as soon as I jumped off the plane. The...
