Yearly Archives: 2017

The advent of President Donald Trump in the US provides an unprecedented opportunity to take a good, hard look at Aotearoa's place in the...

The insurance company Youi, headquartered in South Africa and prominent in Australia, has been awarded the annual Roger Award for the “worst transnational corporation...

By Ryan Dagur in Jakarta Indigenous people on a small Christian majority island in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province are claiming victory after the government revoked...

The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, one of the flagships of investigative journalism, has been closed after 25 years in a controversial decision by...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Indonesian President Joko Widodo to keep his election promise to allow local and international journalists to operate...

By Anton Hermansyah, Stefani Ribka and Tama Salim in Jakarta A week after seeing a petition against Indonesia's biodiesel, the country has seen another blow...

The authors of the controversial investigative book Hit & Run have accused Prime Minister Bill English of ensuring the allegations of a New Zealand...

The Tagata Pasifika special made to mark 20 years of the programme. Video: Sunpix For three decades Tagata Pasifika has been telling the stories of...

Pacific Media Watch Sedition charges against several Fiji Times Limited staff have loomed larger with the Criminal Investigations Department of the Fijian police force executing...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila In a late-night teleconference with senior government officials, World Bank representatives finally acquiesced to Vanuatu’s choice of bidder for...

ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning There is an overlooked aspect of the New Zealand Defence Force’s account of Operation Burnham that when scrutinised suggests a possible...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Climate change is the central focus of the European Union’s continuing relationship with the Pacific, says the international cooperation chief. Stefano...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland In an ever-changing news environment, one academic and researcher has "gone backstage" at Switzerland’s public broadcasting company to better understand...

ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 2) Following the awkward debacle of suspended military cooperation with Australia, in another maverick moment, General Gatot Nurmantyo told the...

ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 1) Since its inception in 2014, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration has witnessed growing rivalry between the Indonesian Military (TNI)...

By Queenie Jose of Te Waha Nui Two Auckland University of Technology students who took top communication studies prizes at an awards ceremony last night...

AFP's global news - "A different angle". A promotional video. Under a multi-year agreement starting tomorrow, the British public broadcaster BBC will receive edited live...

Pacific Media Centre affiliated students and graduates have won several prizes at the annual School of Communication Studies awards night at Auckland University of...

School of Communication Studies award winners 2016: School of Communication Studies Award for Top Student in the Certificate in Communication Studies: Joshua Katz School of Communication...

REVIEW: By Dr Wayne Hope It can’t have been easy for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and their political leaders to deny the results...

By Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating presented the NZ Defence Force response to the book Hit &...

The Fijian authorities must immediately drop politically-motivated sedition charges against The Fiji Times newspaper group, says Amnesty International. “By charging The Fiji Times with sedition,...