Tag: Environmental Journalism
Fiji academic calls for more action to reverse Suva foreshore pollution
By Sheldon Chanel in Suva
Fiji's Suva foreshore has been under "enormous" pressure from decades of destructive practices with little to no public awareness about...
How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action
The project video - read the linked story.
By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre
Climate change action has been "shelved" for the moment in...
Motorcycle hitmen kill Philippine reporter who covered mining
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) suspects that a journalist gunned down yesterday in Sorsogon province, in the...
French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was...
By Matthew Scott, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images - the drowned...
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...
EJN awards grants for investigative ‘green’ reporting in Asia-Pacific
Pacific Media Watch
Six South Pacific journalists have been awarded grants by the Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) to strengthen environmental reporting in the region,...
Experts warn over Indonesian plan for fast track environmental deregulation
By Hans Nicholas Jong in Jakarta
Experts have warned that a slate of sweeping deregulation planned by the Indonesian government could prove disastrous for the...
Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ Pacific media archive
A video made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pacific Journalism Review in 2014. Video: Sasya Wreksono/PMC
Pacific Media Watch
Tuwhera, the open access repository and...
Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo
By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta
Mongabay environmental editor Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia last evening, flying from Jakarta to New York after he was...
Indonesia releases US Mongabay journalist held on visa charge
Pacific Media Watch
An American environmental journalist accused of violating the terms of his visa has been freed after three days in jail and is...
Global media decry Indonesia’s arrest of environmental journalist
A Mongabay video message to supporters of the US journalist Philip Jacobson arrested in Indonesia.
By Michael Andrew in Jakarta
International journalists and agencies have condemned...
Indonesia ‘arrests’ Mongabay editor – one month after first detaining...
Pacific Media Watch
Philip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the non-profit environmental science news outlet Mongabay, has been arrested for an alleged visa violation in...
Journalists fighting oil palm plantation found stabbed to death in Sumatra
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Two Indonesian journalists who had reported on an illegal oil palm plantation in Sumatra have been found stabbed to death.
According to...
American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An American journalist working in the Philippines on indigenous environmental and human rights issues has been shot and critically wounded while...
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...
NZ journalists arrested in Fiji now free but no new era...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Dominic O'Sullivan
It is not unusual for Fiji to intimidate and imprison journalists.
Journalists provide checks on government, parliament and business, which threatens...
USP wins US$20,000 grant to boost Pacific environmental journalism
By Wansolwara
The journalism programme at the University of the South Pacific has won a US$20,000 (F$42,617) grant in a boost environmental reporting in the...
Fiji revokes approval of Chinese resort development on Malolo Island
By RNZ News
Fiji has reportedly revoked the approval of a Chinese resort project on Malolo Island.
The developer Freesoul Real Estate had begun building a 350-bure...
Fiji PM apologises to NZ journalists detained over Malolo probe
By RNZ News
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has apologised to three New Zealand journalists detained overnight in Suva by a "group of rogue officers"
Newsroom...
Connecting the dots – Pacific disasters, cyclones, climate featured in latest...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
“Rob” flooding in the Indonesian city of Semarang, Cyclone Winston’s devastation and social media in Fiji and “backpack journalism” in Typhoon...
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...