Tag: Bearing Witness
David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation
Mediasia Iafor
New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades.
An advocate for media...
Pacific climate stories need to be ‘heard and told’, says USP...
By Akansha Narayan in Suva
Award-winning University of the South Pacific student journalist Sera Tikotikoivatu-Sefeti says Pacific voices on the climate fight need to be...
Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle
By David Robie
Pacific journalism educators are worried that the global covid pandemic has threatened media development programmes in a vast region of island microstates...
From Wellington to South Sudan: Capturing marginalised stories
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Robin Hammond recently made a visit to the Wellington campus of Massey University to meet with his...
Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?
By Sri Krishnamurthi
Highly commended for their recent success at the Ossie Awards for the best student journalism in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific...
Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival
The 2018 Bearing Witness Project short documentary - Banabans of Rabi.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Banabans of Rabi - A Story of Survival, a short documentary...
Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere
The trailer for Banabans of Rabi on the Pacific Media Centre YouTube page.
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
Banabans of Rabi – A story of Survival,...
Banabans of Rabi short climate change documentary chosen for Nuku’alofa
The trailer for Hele Ikimotu and Blessen Tom's short Bearing Witness documentary. Video: Banabans of Rabi
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A short documentary, Banabans of Rabi...
Strongest climate solutions ‘developed together’, says PaCE-SD chief
Blessen Tom's video interview with PaCE-SD director Professor Elisabeth Holland in Suva. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre...
Life on Fiji’s Rabi Island – simple, peaceful and full of...
Hele Ikimotu's "life on Rabi" video reflections. Video: Pacific Media Centre
By Hele Ikimotu on Rabi Island, Fiji
Our trip to Rabi was a long journey,...
USP students raise Pacific climate change awareness using cellphones
Bearing Witness talks to ePOP climate change video makers. Video: Pacific Media Centre
By Hele Ikimotu with visuals by Blessen Tom in Suva
Ten students from...
USP celebrates 50 years and leads research action on climate change
Bearing Witness crew Blessen Tom and Hele Ikimotu's video story of USP's ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations and climate change. Video: AUT Pacific Media Centre
By...
Bearing Witness students win big at AUT communication studies awards
By Jean Bell in Auckland
Bearing Witness climate change project students won big last night at the annual awards ceremony for AUT's School of Communication...
Bearing Witness climate storytellers gear up for fresh Fiji challenge
By Jean Bell in Auckland
Two postgraduate students on the Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project are due to jet to Fiji this...
France committed to backing ePOP Pacific climate storytelling
By Elizabeth Osifelo in Suva
The French government is committed to the fight against climate change in the Pacific and hopes programmes such as the...
PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre project students and interns announced for the year this week include two budding documentary makers and a seasoned...
PMC’s Bearing Witness project reporters win Dart trauma award
The Bearing Witness video and the prizewinning multimedia package.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project has won the Dart...
Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki village moves to new site after landslide
A Pacific Media Centre video at Tukuraki by the Bearing Witness team Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in May.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
After more than...
USP students, France24 team up in smart-phone Fiji climate story
The France24 Observers climate change report on Fiji featuring ePOP student journalists Koroi Tadulala and Telstar Edrie Jimmy. Video: France 24 Observers - in...
AUT award winners bound for Fiji on ‘Bearing Witness’ mission
By Queenie Jose of Te Waha Nui
Two Auckland University of Technology students who took top communication studies prizes at an awards ceremony last night...
PMC journalists gear up for new ‘Bearing Witness’ climate challenge
The Pacific Media Centre's popular “Bearing Witness” climate change project enters its second year next month.
As part of a collaborative venture between Auckland University...
Pacific Profile: Jale Samuwai Curuki – ‘If you’re still a climate...
Report and video story by TJ Aumua for Asia Pacific Report
Name: Jale Samuwai Curuki
Age: 30
Occupation: PhD candidate, University of the South Pacific
Passion: Accounting, climate...