Tag: journalism
Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’
RNZ News
Afghan women are accusing the Taliban of using a pregnant New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can...
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...
MEAA calls for halt to ‘slow erosion’ of media to safeguard...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Australia’s union for journalists says Australian journalism is in crisis after years of disruption, undermining and neglect, and swift action is...
How NZ’s Public Interest Journalism Fund can help ‘normalise’ diversity
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific ReportThe announcement in February of a new $55 million, three-year Public Interest Journalism Fund...
Scott Waide: Memo to our younger people – go out to...
COMMENT: By Scott Waide
Senior EMTV journalist and bureau chief Scott Waide in Papua New Guinea's second city Lae this week called time on his...
Social media ‘bullshit’ threatens coping with covid-19 outbreak in PNG
By Sue Ahearn, founder of The Pacific Newsroom and former editor, ABC International
A PNG member of Parliament died from covid-19 this week but it...
MEAA rethinks press council role and backs need for Facebook media...
MEAA video message on YouTube.
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) union is reconsidering its involvement in the Australian Press Council...
Samoa Observer: AG should investigate her own management
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer Editorial Board
In the past month, we have made a new pen pal: the Attorney-General of Samoa, no less, Savalenoa...
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...