Tag: Climate Journalism
Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response
By Brooke Tindall, Queensland University of Technology
With more than 50 Fijian villages earmarked for potential relocation in the next five to 10 years due...
Tackling Pacific media’s crucial role in climate crisis and press freedom
Wansolwara
The news media’s crucial role in climate change and environment journalism was the focus of The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme 2024...
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...
Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy
COMMENTARY: By Megan Darby, editor of Climate Home News
When it comes to the world’s two biggest emitters, we are caught between a secretive autocracy...
Boosting Pacific digital media skills amid a cyclone – all part...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Betz in Ninole, Hawai'i
As Cyclone Cody got set to pummel Fiji in early January, students at the University of the...
Respect the right to report on the environment, RSF tells COP26
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and more than 60 environmental journalists of 34 different nationalities have appealed for respect for the right...
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...
Climate crisis, coronavirus and journalism research methodologies top latest PJR edition
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Climate crisis and the global coronavirius pandemic are key themes along with new research methodology strategies in the latest Pacific Journalism...
EJN teams up with PMC’s Pacific Media Watch on new climate...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
In an innovative new development, Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) will partner with the Pacific Media...
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...
USP journo students head to Solomons for environmental reporting project
By Rosalie Nongebatu in Suva
Three journalism students from The University of the South Pacific in Suva have been selected to participate in a week-long...
New climate journalism handbook targets ‘existential problem’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A new handbook for the existential problem of our time – climate change – has been published as a boost for...
Remote Vanuatu journo goes above and beyond to tell stories
By RNZ Pacific
Clinging to the top of a swaying coconut tree, Vanuatu journalist Edgar Howard carefully plucks out his phone from his pocket.
He's clambered...
Pacific student uncertainties over climate impact outweighs Fiji poll
Climate change issues seem to loom larger than the impending Fiji general election in the minds of University of the South Pacific students. Pacific...
Fiji climate lead challenged Western consultants’ influence before losing job
ANALYSIS: By Megan Darby, deputy editor of Climate Home News
Fiji’s presidency of the United Nations climate talks was an unprecedented opportunity for the Pacific...
Tuila’epa to open high-powered Pacific climate conference
Trailer for the controversial climate change documentary Anote's Ark - former Kiribati President Anote Tong opened the previous Pacific Climate Change Conference in Wellington...
A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens
BOOKS: By David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
At the time of reviewing this important and timely book, Hurricane Irma had just ripped a...
Shailendra Singh: How journalists can walk the Pacific climate change talk
OPINION: By Dr Shailendra Singh
Climate change seems to be getting increasingly more news coverage recently, which is a positive outcome—on at least some levels.
But...