Tag: Media
Plea deal ends personal ordeal for Julian Assange, but still media...
Pacific Media Watch
The reported plea bargain between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the United States government brings to a close one of the darkest...
Posie Parker departs NZ – JK Rowling blasts protest as ‘repellent’
RNZ News
British gender activist Posie Parker has left New Zealand, calling it the "worst place for women she has ever visited".
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known...
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...
Pasifika and diversity strong ‘winners’ at AUT media awards night
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...
Bearing Witness students win big at AUT communication studies awards
By Jean Bell in Auckland
Bearing Witness climate change project students won big last night at the annual awards ceremony for AUT's School of Communication...
How Philippine state surveillance is used as a tool to silence...
BRIEFING: Special report by Jodesz Gavilan and Sofia Tomacruz in Manila
Human rights activists say that the conduct of both physical and communication surveillance is...
Journalist Yasmine Ryan’s death in Istanbul fall shocks colleagues
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A New Zealand journalist and associate of the Pacific Media Centre has been killed in a fall from a building in...
Chris Trotter: Catastrophic loss of trust over Canberra’s Manus provocation
OPINION: By Chris Trotter
You have to go a long way to find anything remotely resembling Australia’s current treatment of New Zealand.
For a supposedly friendly...
PNG media council calls for ‘silence’ on domestic violence to be...
The Family, Sexual, Violence Actions office in Port Moresby has condemned news of women being violently abused in Papua New Guinea with manager Ruth...
Worse West Papua human rights, ‘shrinking space’, says new report
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
West Papua has experienced a "significant aggravation" of the human rights situation in the past two years compared to previous years,...
Cook Islands plays role in Pacific research mapping media culture
By Rashneel Kumar in Avarua, Rarotonga
The Cook Islands is part of a 12-nation research project to comprehensively map Pacific Islands journalism culture at a...
Pacific exchange journalists begin NZ media ‘awareness’ internship
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
Pacific exchange journalists kicked off their two-week internship in New Zealand with a visit to the Pacific...
PMC to host visiting Pacific exchange student journalists
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
The Pacific Media Centre will host three student journalists today in the opening session of a two-week attachment media programme...
AUT appoints new head of Communication Studies school
By Olivia Allison
Auckland University of Technology has appointed a new head of the School of Communication Studies, the largest in New Zealand, the university...
Pacific-wide study aims to understand how journalists cover climate change
By Kendall Hutt
Climate change is at the heart of a unique regional study into journalism culture in the Pacific.
The study, focusing on journalism’s role...
Keith Jackson on Turnbull in PNG — media snubs, refugee jitters...
COMMENT: By Keith Jackson
That was one strange weekend Malcolm Turnbull just spent in Papua New Guinea on his first official visit, even if at...
BBC teams up with AFP’s growing television ‘firepower’
AFP's global news - "A different angle". A promotional video.
Under a multi-year agreement starting tomorrow, the British public broadcaster BBC will receive edited live...
PMC students score well in AUT’s annual media awards
Pacific Media Centre affiliated students and graduates have won several prizes at the annual School of Communication Studies awards night at Auckland University of...
PNG’s radio talkback broadcasting legend Roger Hau’ofa dies
Tributes to the late Roger Hau’ofa have flowed in from all over Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. FM100 aired aired a special talkback...
Amanda Watson: Does PNG rank highly for internet porn searches?
By Dr Amanda Watson in Port Moresby
In Papua New Guinea, the Post-Courier featured a front-page story with the headline “PNG tops world in ‘porn’...
Dan McGarry: The future of media freedom – we can’t take...
By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post
Media freedom is everyone’s freedom. We can’t take it for granted.
My education in the challenges...
IFJ praises ‘historic milestone’ with new information law in Vanuatu
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV), in commending the recent passing of a Right...