Tag: Environmental Journalism
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...
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...
Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’
Drone views of the village of Timbulsloko showing the scale of coastal erosion and sinking flatlands in an area that once used to be...
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...
Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A Wansolwara second-year student journalist from the University of the South Pacific has been included among 10 Pacific journalists who have...
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...
Accuracy the key in climate change reporting, student journos told
By Abishek Chand in Suva
Student journalists of the University of the South Pacific have been reminded about the threat of climate change and the...
Estonia’s high price of energy independence – ‘we have lost our...
Estonia may lie a continent and an ocean away from the two biggest polluters in the world – China and the United States –...
A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...
Dr Shailendra Singh reviews a new edition of Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face.
Above all, David Robie’s Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and...
Call for new media strategies for climate change journalism
Last month's AJ+ video about ExxonMobile's tactics in casting doubt on climate change science.
Do changes to climate change reporting need to happen? Does the...
Tribute to a free and independent Pacific media
REVIEW: By Erica George of Amnesty International NZ
"Mainstream journalism has failed to communicate not only peace, but also human rights in ways that have...
Fiji’s climate change patterns hit pristine coral reefs hard
Almost two months following the most devastating cyclone to have ever hit Fiji, the country’s people and biodiversity are still struggling towards recovery, Anuja...
Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller
The Arctic 30's thank you message after their release in November 2013 - cited in Peter Willcox's new book out next week. Video: Greenpeace
Review...
Climate change action faces ‘fight’ with Big Oil, says McKibben
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
Climate change activists have to be prepared for a confrontation with oil companies that will "flat out lie", says environmental...
RSF cheekily climbing the barricades
From Pacific Journalism Review
Reviewed by David Robie
Saving Independent Journalism: 30 Years Defending Media (39pp); Hostile Climate of Environmental Journalists (27pp). 2015. Paris, France: Reporters...
