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Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing

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Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza

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July 7, 2024

PJR 26(1) cover detail

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PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific

The Sunday Graphic's 1953 Royal Tour Picture Album

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Late Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 Pacific royal tour teaches us much about how we saw the world

New Zealand author David Robie

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David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on

Owen Wilkes

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Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

February 21, 2023

West Papua independence supporters in Manokwari

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A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 17, 2024

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Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

January 9, 2016

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Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’

January 28, 2018

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Drone killings on a par with mafia hitmen murders

March 9, 2017

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Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

July 16, 2018

The campsite on the Long March at Mildura, Victoria

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Peter Lusk: Reflections on my mahi with peace researcher Owen Wilkes

Pacific Media Watch -

February 14, 2023

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A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...

Shailendra Singh -

August 3, 2016

PJR 26(1) cover detail

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PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2020

The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning

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The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

July 3, 2025

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Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River

Pacific Media Watch -

July 19, 2017

Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

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Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new...

Pacific Media Watch -

March 1, 2026

Papua's Tom Beanal

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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

May 18, 2026

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Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage

January 15, 2017

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How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace

April 23, 2019

Waves of Change co-authors Associate Professor Shailendra Singh (from left), Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad and Dr Amit Sarwal

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Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 14, 2024

The Encampments

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The Encampments vs October 8 – a battle of narratives on...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2025

Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad

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Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor

Pacific Media Watch -

October 26, 2025

Pacific Journalism Review investigation over Ophir

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Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR

October 2, 2021

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Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel

Pacific Media Watch -

May 7, 2018

Activist author Maire Leadbeater

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Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’

November 9, 2024

Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing

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Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza

Pacific Journalism Review -

July 7, 2024

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Indonesian police fire water cannon and tear gas on West Papuan demonstrators at Perumnas III Waena, Heram District, Jayapura City, Papua

Asia Report

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police

Carlile House in Auckland's Grey Lynn

Civil Society

Church owning historic Carlile House talks with Auckland Council about demolishing...

Australian Antiosemitismn Commission Jillian Segal (centre) with husband John Roth (right)

Asia Report

The Segal State 2 – the mask, the children, the money...

Cook Islands

Cook Islands election: preliminary results starting to come in

EDITOR'S PICKS

Government and corporate elites and states can continue to support Israel militarily and economically only as long as establishment media continue to rehearse the lies, falsifications, and denials of its genocide in Gaza

Analysis

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza?...

Indonesian police fire water cannon and tear gas on West Papuan demonstrators at Perumnas III Waena, Heram District, Jayapura City, Papua

Asia Report

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)

Analysis

Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...

Asia Report

Fiji’s Palestine solidarity group queries ‘unprecedented’ security for Israeli embassy

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Government and corporate elites and states can continue to support Israel militarily and economically only as long as establishment media continue to rehearse the lies, falsifications, and denials of its genocide in Gaza

Analysis

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza?...

Journalist and sports marketing official Charlie Charters

Democracy

Fiji High Court orders release of seven devices seized from journalist...

Indonesian police fire water cannon and tear gas on West Papuan demonstrators at Perumnas III Waena, Heram District, Jayapura City, Papua

Asia Report

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)

Analysis

Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...