Tag: Journalism Education
USP signs ‘milestone Pacific MOUs’ for enterprising journalism initiatives
By Viliame Tawanakoro in Suva
The University of the South Pacific’s regional journalism programme has penned three milestone Memorandums of Understanding that will usher in...
Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up...
COMMENTARY: By Kayt Davies in Perth
I wasn't good at French in my final year of high school. My classmates had five years of language...
French Polynesia plans journalism study grants to combat disinformation
Pacific Media Watch
President Édouard Fritch of French Polynesia says he wants to boost funds to study journalism in French Polynesia in a bid to...
‘Don’t forget our past – write about us,’ says Vanuatu founding...
By Agnes Herbert in Port Vila
A founding father and former politician has urged young journalists to write more about Vanuatu’s history.
In a presentation to...
University journalism courses need to teach about cultural safety before students...
ANALYSIS: By T.J. Thomson, Queensland University of Technology; Julie McLaughlin, Queensland University of Technology, and Leah King-Smith, Queensland University of Technology
Content warning: this article...
Australian journalism school students ‘hung out to dry’ over sudden closure
By Kathleen Farmilo and Sweeney Preston in Sydney
Journalism students from Australia's Macleay College programme with 50 participants are saying their degrees have been cancelled...
Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business...
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University
News Corp Australia and Google have announced the...
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...
New USP research paper explores journalism culture in the region
By Pita Ligaiula in Suva
What are the views of Pacific journalists on professional ethical issues and what pressures affect their work? What is the...
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...
Asia Pacific Report freshened with new student roles, independent journalism
JEANZ News
Professor David Robie, founding director of the AUT Pacific Media Centre, has relaunched Asia Pacific Report as an independent Pacific affairs and analysis...
Scott Waide: We must invest in our journalism schools to help...
COMMENT: By Scott Waide in Lae
Papua New Guinea’s Communications Minister, Timothy Masiu, recently told a news conference to mark World Press Freedom Day that...
Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre still up in the air
By Justin Wong in Auckland
Auckland University of Technology has denied it is sidelining the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies, but...
Media freedom fraternity must counter attacks on j-education, says JERAA
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Australia's leading journalism education advocacy body has marked World Press Freedom Day by condemning attacks on journalism education and research, including...
AUT defends its controversial role over PMC, but ‘office’ still a...
The Pacific Newsroom
Auckland University of Technology has responded to queries from a media aid watchdog about the future of the regional Pacific Media Centre...
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...
Alexandra Wake: In defence of journalism schools and underpinning civil society
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake in Melbourne
How disappointing to read another opinion piece in Australian papers repeating time-old arguments that fail to acknowledge the excellent...
Desperate times unleash digital creativity, flexibility for j-schools
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Desperate times call for desperate measures and so it is with journalism schools throughout the Pacific...
China bid wins hosting rights for next global journalism meet
By Jeremaiah Opiniano in Paris
Journalism that usually fits into democracies will go to China in 2022 when the economic and political giant hosts a...
‘I click therefore I exist’ – media research and ‘humanism’
The AMIC 2009 conference highlights. Video: AMIC
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A new video has been produced on YouTube featuring highlights of this month's 27th AMIC...
Bring ethics into global smart tech, warns UN cyber expert
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Bangkok
A leading cyber security expert has called on universities to play a more active role in implementing ethics...
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...