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New Zealand's Governor-General, Dame Cindy Kiro, with journalist and educator Dr David Robie at the investiture ceremony

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Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism

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May 26, 2025

‎Recognising and respecting local value systems is not about compromising press freedom

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Culture at the core: examining journalism values in the Pacific

"What is happening in America is having a profound impact on journalism (and by extension journalism education) in Australia

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Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever

The colonnaded Widener Library looks out over Tercentenary Theatre at the heart of Harvard’s campus.

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Obama praises Harvard for ‘setting example’ to universities resisting Trump

Trump supporters marching on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021

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How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval

USP's Laucala campus

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‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for...

July 20, 2024

How the New Zealand Herald featured the assassination attempt on former President Donald

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Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here’s what makes Evan...

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July 15, 2024

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...

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July 14, 2024

Pacific Journalism Review

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Pacific Media Conference to celebrate 30th birthday of Pacific Journalism Review

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June 22, 2024

Asia Pacific Media Network's Professor David Robie

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50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a...

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June 3, 2024

Israa University in Gaza

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Open letter by Gaza academics: ‘Help us resist Israel’s scholasticide’

June 1, 2024

Even the Warriors rugby league team are invoked in the protest against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza

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NZ students stage Gaza protests in global ‘take a stand’ rallies

May 23, 2024

The burnt out remains of a car seen near the University of Caledonia

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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: NZ student in Nouméa taught to use...

May 20, 2024

Part of the cover in a recent edition of Pacific Journalism Review

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PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media...

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April 6, 2024

The Islands Business cover story on the University of the South Pacific this week

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USP faces a ‘gathering storm’ over leadership and a looming strike

March 30, 2024

Fiji journalists at a sexual harassment seminar

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Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’

Pacific Media Watch -

March 20, 2024

USP's associate professor Shailendra Singh and QUT's professor Angela Romano

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Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team

February 13, 2024

Tuvalu from the air

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World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact

January 29, 2024

USP's Professor Pal Ahluwalia

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‘Up in arms’ USP staff challenge vice-chancellor’s stay in Samoa

November 30, 2023

University of the South Pacific protesting in black

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‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair...

November 27, 2023

University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia

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USP staff unhappy with VC, but he thanks them for ‘engagement’

November 27, 2023

CSU's senior lecturer in news and media Jock Cheetham

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Demise of CSU news journalism course was ‘greatly exaggerated’

Pacific Media Watch -

September 27, 2023

The Pacific region needs to be fully informed about ongoing negotiations about the global digital landscape

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Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space

September 26, 2023

UPNG's Professor Frank Griffin with protesting medical students

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‘I hear your cry’, UPNG chief tells protesting medical students

September 12, 2023

Activist minister Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua brandishes the petition against the AUKUS military pact at the launch

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Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions

July 10, 2023

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Hipkins faces grilling from students over University of Otago staff cuts

June 3, 2023

The Old Entrance to the University of the South Pacific's Laucala campus

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Additional budget funds earmarked for USP arrears, says Prasad

June 2, 2023

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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

Analysis

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...

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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

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,

Analysis

Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says...

As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation

Decolonisation

‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...

The BBC still runs its story on six-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces, under the headline "Hind Rajab, 6, found dead

Analysis

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

Decolonisation

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

The BBC still runs its story on six-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces, under the headline "Hind Rajab, 6, found dead

Analysis

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...

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

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Asia Report

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

Decolonisation

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Crime

West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...

The BBC still runs its story on six-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces, under the headline "Hind Rajab, 6, found dead

Analysis

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...