Tag: journalism

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Brisbane-based Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom calls for Chinese authorities to provide due process to Australian television journalist Cheng Lei and...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Cook Islands News has appointed senior journalist Rashneel Kumar to lead the paper through a challenging time for the country and...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Hostile media environments in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and West Papua pose growing challenges to the Melanesian region’s democracies, says Pacific...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Timor-Leste's Journalist Association (AJTL) and journalism students marched through the streets of the capital Dili today calling on the government to...

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...

By RNZ Pacific Vanuatu's media advocacy group Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV) has condemned what it calls intimidation of a local journalist by airport security...

Pacific Media Watch Into the fourth week of  lockdown in New Zealand, and today's weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern Cross radio programme covers what...

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...

OPINION: By Antonio Sampaio in Dili The Timor-Leste authorities have to improve significantly the conditions in which journalists are working to cover the Covid-19 coronavirus...

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...

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...

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...

By Ben Bilua in Suva Multimedia skills and innovation are key to adapting to the changing media landscape, says US academic Professor Debora Wenger as...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Former Post-Courier business editor Eric Tapakau died in Port Moresby over the weekend, where he was seeking medical treatment for a...

By Michael Andrew More New Zealand journalists have been seeking ways to “prevent tragedy” through their reporting, shows new research published in Columbia Journalism Review. The...

By Michael Andrew Diversity was a winner at AUT’s School of Communication Studies annual awards last night with several Pacific Media Centre contributors taking out...

Rahul Bhattarai talks to eNCA News of South Africa live from New Zealand. Video: eNCA News Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Former Pacific Media Watch project reporter...

ANALYSIS: By Mary-Louise O'Callaghan It is both apt and overdue that veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney was last night awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Journalism...

By Islami Adisubrata in Wamena, West Papua Indonesian Regional Police in West Papua have handed over the documents of the case of a Polish tourist,...

By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva The Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) plans to work closely with the University of the South Pacific journalism programme...

By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva Pacific journalism academic Professor David Robie believes the media play a critical role in exposing abuses of power in a...

By Harrison Selmen in Suva, Fiji Vanuatu student journalist Telstar Jimmy launched her first poetry book in Fiji last week and vows bigger plans ahead...