Tag: journalism
USP Journalism dedicates awards to media ‘champion’ David Robie
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva
The 20th University of the South Pacific Journalism Student Awards in Suva last month were dedicated to retiring Pacific...
RSF hails UK court blocking of US bid to extradite Julian...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the January 4 ruling of UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser to block the United...
Gallery: PMC celebrates Pacific ‘reset’ vision and farewells founding director
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre students, staff and journalists gathered at Auckland University of Technology this week and debated reset strategies for the...
Climate crisis, coronavirus and journalism research methodologies top latest PJR edition
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Climate crisis and the global coronavirius pandemic are key themes along with new research methodology strategies in the latest Pacific Journalism...
Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered "live" in Auckland and "virtually" from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their...
Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi...
By Katarina Williams, a senior reporter of Stuff
Stuff has introduced a new company charter with Te Tiriti o Waitangi at its core, after a...
Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for...
AJF calls for Chinese authorities to free ‘hostage’ TV anchor Cheng...
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...
Cook Islands News appoints new editor and senior editorial team
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...
PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media
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...
Timorese journalists protest over plan to turn defamation into crime
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...
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...
Vanuatu media group condemns ‘intimidation’ of woman journalist
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 coronavirus: NZ’s big decision, j-schools and media closures
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...
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...
‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Multimedia, innovation vital for Pacific journalism, says academic
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...
Death of Bougainvillean journalist Eric Tapakau stuns colleagues
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...
NZ journalists focusing on ‘tragedy prevention’, says CJR research
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...