Michael Andrew
Michael Andrew is the 2019 Pacific Media Watch contributing editor with the Pacific Media Centre. He is studying journalism through AUT’s Postgraduate Diploma in Communications. His work has appeared in the Titirangi Fringe, Wilderness Magazine and The Spinoff.
Global media decry Indonesia’s arrest of environmental journalist
A Mongabay video message to supporters of the US journalist Philip Jacobson arrested in Indonesia.
By Michael Andrew in Jakarta
International journalists and agencies have condemned...
Pacific reporting among first casualties of struggling NZ media, says academic
By Michael Andrew
International and Pacific reporting are among the first casualties of struggling New Zealand newsrooms as they try to cut costs to make...
Papua, Pacific youth and climate change to mark NZ conference
By Michael Andrew
Pacific diplomats, academics and youth leaders will gather in Auckland, New Zealand, this week to discuss security, economic development and other pressing...
Story of Pacific ‘reconnection’ destined for the big screen
By Michael Andrew and Sri Krishnamurthi
The true story of one of the Pacific’s great waka builders and sailors has been captured in a stirring...
Ethics needed in computing and tech to stop ‘robber barons’, says...
By Michael Andrew
Social media and tech industries have been replicating the ugliest aspects of capitalism from the 1800s, according to an AUT computer science...
Media associates pay tribute to ‘Akilisi Pohiva
By Michael Andrew
Pacific media associates have paid tribute to the late Tongan Prime Minster 'Akilisi Pohiva, who died in New Zealand earlier this week.
An...
Michael Andrew: On the NZ media’s coverage of West Papua
OPINION: By Michael Andrew of Pacific Media Watch
For the past three weeks a wave of violent protest has been spreading across West Papua and...
New Zealand activists urge PM Ardern to act now on West...
By Michael Andrew
As Timor-Leste celebrates 20 years since the landmark vote that determined its independence from Indonesian rule, activists are urging the New Zealand...
Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher
By Michael Andrew
The Indonesian media is contributing to resentment and racism toward Papuans, according to a human rights researcher and former journalist.
Andreas Harsono of Human...
PNG journalists, media unite against ‘unacceptable’ Choi sacking
By Michael Andrew
Journalists across Papua New Guinea have spoken out in support of EMTV news director Neville Choi after his "unacceptable" termination from a...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki remembrance evokes peace and protest
By Michael Andrew
The devastating loss of life and suffering from the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was commemorated in Auckland last weekend.
Organised...
The call of Ihumātao: Migrant communities standing with Māori
By Michael Andrew
The occupation at Ihumātao is a spectacle of flags.
In every direction they flutter. Alongside tino rangatiratanga - the Māori flag of independence,...
PMC projects creative ‘grab bag’ unveiled at midwinter showcase
By Michael Andrew
A creative “grab bag” of projects has been unveiled by the Pacific Media Centre in a showcase of collaboration across academic and...
Mobile era Pacific Media Centre website upgrade ready to go live
By Michael Andrew
The Pacific Media Centre has a new website and it will be going live over the next week.
A project almost two years...
‘A journalist is nothing without values,’ says community editor
By Michael Andrew
An Auckland journalist and editor is practising true community journalism by sharing the stories of the city's most marginalised and vulnerable people.
Former...
West Papuan suffering will go on if NZ doesn’t take stand,...
Michael Andrew's Pacific Media Watch interview with Rosa Moiwend of West Papua. Video: Pacific Media Centre
By Michael Andrew
West Papuan human rights defender Rosa Moiwend...
USP journo students return from Solomons climate storytelling project
By Michael Andrew
A group of University of the South Pacific journalism students have returned from a week-long trip to the Solomon Islands covering communities...
Ben Bohane wins $10,000 Bougainville mission grant for Pacific journalism
By Michael Andrew
A Pacific Media Centre collaborator has been awarded the inaugural Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism at the 2019 Walkley Mid-Year Celebration.
Vanuatu-based...
Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues profiled in new publication
By Michael Andrew
Six years of diverse Pacific research by Auckland University of Technology staff and students has been profiled in a new publication.
Presented by...
Student journos form ‘biggest newsroom’ to cover election
By Michael Andrew
Journalism students across Australia collaborated in an immense project to cover the weekend's federal election.
Organised through The Junction, a website showcasing and...
UN Security-General tells youth be ‘noisy as possible’ on climate change
By Michael Andrew
Older generations are failing to address climate change and they need the world’s youth to lead the way, says United Nations Secretary-General...
Media freedom in Melanesia focus of next PJR and upcoming forum
By Michael Andrew
Media freedom in Melanesia will be the focus of the next edition of Pacific Journalism Review in partnership the Melanesian Media...
