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.
Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ killings spark row during NZ human rights...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs" has sparked further controversy in New Zealand at a public seminar delivered by...
New Zealand support for West Papua grows after ‘historic declaration’ signed
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Political support in New Zealand for an independent West Papua is growing after a “historic declaration” was signed during free...
Author Nicky Hager reveals behind the scenes of Hit & Run...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Investigative journalist and author Nicky Hager has taken journalism students inside the process behind the controversial book Hit & Run,...
Pacific media internship offers chance to follow regional issues
One of the PCF interns coming to New Zealand, Shivika Mala of the University of the South Pacific, talks to the Pacific Media Centre...
Pacific-wide study aims to understand how journalists cover climate change
By Kendall Hutt
Climate change is at the heart of a unique regional study into journalism culture in the Pacific.
The study, focusing on journalism’s role...
‘We’ll not be safe with Indonesia,’ says West Papua’s Benny Wenda
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
A lifelong campaigner for a free and independent West Papua has issued a stark warning to New Zealand politicians as...
NZME, Fairfax merger declined over ‘risk of causing harm’ to NZ...
By Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has denied a move which would have seen two of the country’s largest media...
‘We have to act now’ — Marshall Islanders blast Runit n-pollution
By Kendall Hutt in Suva
A group of Marshall Islanders is calling on the Pacific to stand with them in solidarity as they urge leaders...
Gallery: Bearing Witness crew go to market on Fiji campus
GALLERY: By Kendall Hutt in Suva
The University of the South Pacific in Fiji has a colourful market which happens in the third week of...
Amnesty blasts foreign companies over ‘profiting’ from Nauru refugees abuse
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Foreign companies are profiting off human rights abuses carried out at the Australian offshore refugee processing centre on Nauru, Amnesty...
No more ‘half pie’ independent foreign policy call by CAFCA’s Horton
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
For those seeking an independent foreign policy, the time is now, says the organiser of a New Zealand independence movement...
Climate change key focus of EU ‘case for the Pacific’ roundtable
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...
‘Going backstage’: Swiss researcher reveals public broadcast practices
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...
New Greenpeace vessel key to ‘do or die’ battle against oil...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
In light of news of President Donald Trump’s executive order today -- undoing integral climate change policies implemented under former...
Celebrating Pasifika – the art of Samoan female tattooing
By Kendall Hutt
A small, enthusiastic crowd gathered among the shelves of one of Auckland’s libraries earlier this week to listen to a lively and...
On the oil protest front line: ‘It’s their future they’re fighting...
By Kendall Hutt
Young environmentalists were on the front lines of the fight against oil and gas exploration in New Zealand today with the People's...
Author praised for opening readers’ eyes to West Papua’s repression
By Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt
Bookstore owners, writers, authors, family, friends and a group hopeful of West Papuan independence squeezed into the...
Debut novel offers rare glimpse into grief amid life in West...
Ahead of the launch of her debut novel The Earth Cries Out, author Bonnie Etherington talks with Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Kendall Hutt...
Tonga’s Democracy Coalition faces uncertain future, says academic
By Kendall Hutt
The future of Tonga’s Democracy Coalition remains uncertain as next year’s election looms, a Nuku'alofa-based educator has concluded in a public seminar...
Estonia’s high price of energy independence – ‘we have lost our...
Estonia may lie a continent and an ocean away from the two biggest polluters in the world – China and the United States –...
WJEC16: Media failing in reporting climate change, say educators
By Kendall Hutt
The United Nations Climate Change Conference last year - more commonly referred to as "COP21", may have been praised as a "historic turning...
WJEC16: Educators warn of looming crises within journalism, stress ‘better practice’
By Kendall Hutt
Journalism educators from across the Pacific have raised concerns about the current state of journalism globally at the 4th World Journalism Education...
