Tag: Human rights journalism
50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a...
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, manager of RNZ Pacific
This King's Birthday, the New Zealand Order of Merit recognises Professor David Robie's 50 years of service to...
Respect the right to report on the environment, RSF tells COP26
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and more than 60 environmental journalists of 34 different nationalities have appealed for respect for the right...
Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role
By Laurens Ikinia
A journalist who sailed on board the bombed environmental ship Rainbow Warrior, was arrested at gunpoint in New Caledonia while investigating French...
Reporting the covid-19 unknown: How reporters in Philippines do their job
By Imelda V. Abano in Manila
The novel coronavirus now sweeping the globe has left many countries struggling to cope with rising numbers of infections...
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
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Tuwhera, the open access repository and...
Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals
By Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald in Sydney
In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New...
PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their "deafening silence"...
Paga Hill iconic human rights film banned from PNG festival
A Frontline Insight item about Joe Moses and the Paga Hill struggle for justice in Papua New Guinea. Video: Reuters Foundation
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An...
Indonesia’s Papua ‘cover-up reflex’ prompts police dormitory raid
A video of a demonstration marking the bloody Biak massacre of 6 July 1998 staged last year. Video: BBB Times
By Michelle Winowatan
Dozens of Indonesian...
Tributes flow for NZ’s Arab Spring journalist Yasmine Ryan
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New Zealand journalist Yasmine Ryan, credited with being the first reporter writing in English about the Arab Spring from her base...