Kendall Hutt
Kendall Hutt is Pacific Media Watch freedom project contributing editor 2017. A graduate journalist from Auckland University of Technology, she also completed her Honours year in Communication Studies. Kendall was on the Pacific Media Centre's 2016 Asia-Pacific Journalism Studies course. Kendall is interested in political and climate change journalism, and runs her own television and film review blog. In December 2017, Kendall took up a job with the North Shore Times.
Film industry sources criticise TVNZ ‘devaluing’ of Māori programmes
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Independent filmmakers fear a slow erosion of Māori and Pacific content at Television New Zealand has begun.
Their fears have emerged...
Philippine media freedom riskier, traumatic under Duterte, says PCIJ director
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Being a journalist in the Philippines has become a lot tougher, riskier and traumatic in the face of President Rodrigo...
PMC photojournalism book offers ‘window’ into Pacific culture, issues
Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary in pictures. Video: Kendall Hutt/PMC
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The Pacific Media Centre kicked off its 10th anniversary celebrations last...
Bentley Effect doco aims to ‘inspire’ NZ fight against oil, gas...
The Bentley Effect ... "inspiring celebration of the power of community". Video: The Bentley Effect Movie
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
In 2010, gas exploration in...
NZ exhibition aims to highlight ‘regeneration’ of refugees lives
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Black-and-white photographs are aiming to start a conversation and dispel myths around former refugees and asylum seekers in New Zealand....
Global research project examines ‘social impact’ of natural disasters
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
How Indonesian society manages in the face of natural disasters is the focus of a global research collaboration as part...
PMC’s monographs launched on Tuwhera in ‘exciting initiative’
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
The Pacific Media Centre’s peer-reviewed research monographs have been launched on the Auckland University of Technology Library’s...
‘Asia-Pacific uniting, working together’ – Gadjah Mada team arrives in NZ
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
Academics from the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia have arrived in New Zealand in a major research...
Health risks of climate change ‘earliest, most severe’ for Pacific –...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise, and longer, more intense heat waves. The observable effects of climate change...
‘Live, thrive in a new place’ – financing Pacific climate adaptation
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
By the end of the 21st century, sea levels are expected to rise by a maximum of 1.5 metres as...
AUT’s cultural diplomacy venture with Indonesia a ‘step into future’
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Auckland University of Technology has launched a “first of its kind” Indonesia Centre in a cultural diplomacy initiative.
“This is both...
Pacific voices, culture key to climate change adaptation, say journalists
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Engaging with the Pacific and its stories of climate change is key to tackling the global issue, Catholic organisations have...
‘A price they never should’ve paid’: Hiroshima, Nagasaki victims remembered
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The estimated 226,000 people who lost their lives in the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been remembered in...
Deported NZ missionary to push for reform on return to PNG
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Deported New Zealand missionary Douglas Tennent will hopefully be returning to Papua New Guinea in the next week.
This comes after...
NZ climate change approach must ‘transcend government’, says report
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Concerns have emerged New Zealand may not meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement if a law on emissions is...
NZ protesters bring ‘human face’ to suffering of Manus, Nauru refugees
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Forty minutes of solidarity marked New Zealand’s stand with refugees imprisoned in Australia’s offshore detention centres across the Pacific today.
More...
Pacific exchange student journalists wrap-up internships
Pacific Cooperation Foundation media interns Shivika Mala and Linda Filiai visit the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Student journalists from across...
Deportation of NZ missionary ‘will not be taken lightly’, says archbishop
Deported New Zealand missionary talks to Pacific Media Watch in an exclusive interview about his ousting from Papua New Guinea over alleged visa violations....
Pacific exchange journalists begin NZ media ‘awareness’ internship
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
Pacific exchange journalists kicked off their two-week internship in New Zealand with a visit to the Pacific...
‘We shouldn’t rest on our laurels,’ warn NZ nuclear free activists
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
As international talks at the United Nations on the ban of nuclear weapons draw closer, New Zealand nuclear free and...
‘Fake news’ unlikely to gain presence in NZ media, says journalism...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Seasoned journalists and academics have warned "fake news" could invade New Zealand's media if journalists do not remain vigilant.
"It's about...
Closure of Manus Island will leave refugees in ‘limbo’, says Amnesty
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Australia's offshore refugee detention centres in the Pacific are facing further controversy as the gradual closure and demolition of the...
