Philippine clergy appeal for justice over assassination of retired priest
By InterAksyon with Cris Sansano in Manila
Nueva Ecija priests led by Bishop Robero Mallari are appealing to the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte to...
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...
Pacific Media Centre turns ten, talks media freedom under violent threat
Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre has marked its tenth anniversary with a seminar discussing two of the wider region's most critical media...
Images: PMC journalists, academics, students and mentors celebrate 10 years
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Participants at the Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary celebration last Thursday held a silent vigil calling for justice for the victims...
Family of inspiring journalist Yasmine Ryan issue details of her memorials
Evening Report Newsdesk
The first of three memorials for courageous and inspiring New Zealand journalist Yasmine Ryan who died on Thursday has been held in...
Tribute to a NZ media mentor: ‘How Yasmine Ryan taught me...
Yasmine Ryan, an award-winning New Zealand journalist who died tragically on Thursday, was the first Western journalist to begin writing about the beginning of...
Natuman makes dig at US big business in historic West Papuan...
By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post
“We are all Melanesian,” says Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Joe Natuman. “We are family. We...
Philippines reporting risks grow under ‘The Punisher’, says PCIJ advocate
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Journalists in the Philippines take their life in their hands doing their job. What was already one of the world's riskiest...
Papuan Morning Star flag raised in Auckland as Green MP says...
The Morning Star flag-raising at Auckland's Aotea Square yesterday. Video: Café Pacific
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence - banned...
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...
Journalist Yasmine Ryan’s death in Istanbul fall shocks colleagues
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A New Zealand journalist and associate of the Pacific Media Centre has been killed in a fall from a building in...
Livestreaming: Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in an event...
Media freedom under the spotlight in PMC 10th anniversary event
A video made by Sasya Wreksono to mark the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Threats to media freedom...
2 shot dead in Philippine human rights violations fact-finding mission
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Three members of a Philippine fact-finding mission team have been shot by armed men in Negros Oriental, reports Karapatan.
The three were...
No Philippine law tackles ‘Paradise Papers’ 200 offshore accounts
ANALYSIS: By Malou Mangahas and Karol Ilagan in Manila
What do some bankers and fund managers, a few senior government officials, a dozen top taxpayers,...
42 years after Timor-Leste’s declared independence, a democracy plea
OPINION: Open letter by Charles Scheiner, Pamela Sexton and John M. Miller of ETAN
The people of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste will today celebrate...
Journalism educators protest over ‘targeting’ of Boochani on Manus
Manus Island was the unique setting for this Sydney Film Festival documentary collaboration between Iranian-Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani and a Dutch filmmaker using footage...
Kiribati – a Pacific ‘drowning paradise’ fighting for its existence
DW Documentary reports on Kiribati's struggle for survival with climate change. Video: DW
DOCUMENTARY: By Markus Henssler
Climate change and rising sea levels mean the island...
Sika honours proud Tongan heritage – England sneak into World League...
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The president of the Mate Ma’a Tonga Rugby League Association has turned to Tongan tradition in announcing the...
Police brutally attack Papuan journalist in Timika, says human rights group
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned a brutal attack against journalist Saldi Hermanto in Timika, Papua, and called for...
IFJ blasts ‘press freedom attack’ on Iranian-Kurdish journalist in PNG
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) in condemning the reported arrest of...
Philippines under Duterte – acute impunity and fettered information
ANALYSIS: By Malou Mangahas in Manila
Eight years ago on 23 November 2009, 32 journalists were among the 58 who were killed in what is...
























































