Tag: Media
Editors seek rethink on NZ media merger plan rejection over plurality
Pacific Media Watch in Auckland
Thirty-three of New Zealand's most senior editors have urged the Commerce Commission to rethink its plan to reject the proposed...
‘Atenisi’s Horowitz at PMC as visiting Pacific research fellow
The trailer from Paul Janman's documentary about 'Atenisi Institute, Tongan Ark, featuring the late founder Professor Futa Helu and colleagues. Janman is a lecturer...
WJEC16: Climate change reportage ‘needs stepping up’ in Asia-Pacific newsrooms
Climate change reportage in the Asia-Pacific needs to be stepped up and taken more seriously by the region's media organisations. This was an issue...
WJEC16: Pacific media educators struggle to find answers for common problems
By Husain Malvi
Journalism education is challenged by issues in all regions of the world and the South Pacific is no different. At the 4th...
WJEC16: Journalism education in the South Pacific – the new advocacy...
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For years, journalism education and training in the Pacific has relied on donor-funded short courses and expatriate media educators.
But in recent times, this has...
WJEC16: Asian communications duo meet Asia NZ Foundation
Asia New Zealand Foundation-supported communication studies and journalism particants Dr Hermin Indah Wahyuni of Indonesia and professor Crispin Maslog of the Philippines today caught...
WJEC16: Media challenges in the Pacific – what the journos think
By Kendall Hutt, Husain Malvi, Ami Dhabuwala and TJ Aumua
Media experts from around the Pacific region held a series of discussion panels at the...
WJEC16: PNG’s media council says recent campus events a ‘wake-up call’
By Kendall Hutt
The president of Papua New Guinea's media council has highlighted the ongoing challenges facing the government and media educators in a panel...
WJEC16: Impressive pōwhiri gives welcome to world media educators
The World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) kicked off tonight in New Zealand with a formal pōwhiri ceremony hosted in the Sir Paul Reeves building at...
WJEC16: ‘Early bird’ arrivals start for global, Pacific journalism events
By Eddie Osifelo of the Solomon Star
More than 220 journalism educators and journalists are participating in the 4th World Journalism Education Congress that will...
Prasad challenges $1m for Fiji’s ‘questionable’ PR firm Qorvis
By Nasik Swami in Suva
The Fiji government has called for expressions of interest from public relations firms since the contract for the US-based Qorvis...
WJEC16: Pacific journalism contingent gearing up to share with world educators
By TJ Aumua in Suva
The Pacific contingent attending the World Journalism Education Congress next week are eager to share their region's journalism knowledge with...
Vanuatu PM tells broadcaster board to resign over financial woes, porn...
By Glenda Willie in Port Vila
Prime Minister Charlot Salwai has reportedly asked the chairman of the Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation board, Johnety Jerety,...
Duterte’s tough stance, impunity big challenges for media in Philippines
By David Robie
Strained relations between the President-elect of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, and much of the news media before he even takes office this...
Philippines President-elect Duterte ‘browbeats’ media in test of will
OPINION: By Amando Doronila in Canberra
Let there be no mistake about this. Since his proclamation by Congress as President-elect, Rodrigo Duterte has engaged the...
NZ news media ‘generally hostile’, says Fiji’s Bainimarama
By Nasik Swami in Suva
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has labelled the New Zealand media as "generally hostile".
Speaking during the banquet to welcome New Zealand...
PCF offers Pacific exchange to keen media students
A video feedback message by TJ Aumua after her PCF media exchange internship in Fiji last year.
By TJ Aumua
New Zealand-based Pacific Cooperation Foundation has...
How ISIS extremist media have hijacked religion and language
By Dr Alan Knight in Sydney
Moderate Muslims were losing the media war with ISIS, according to leading Turkish journalist, Kerim Balci.
”Authentic” Muslims were losing...
Fiji media monopoly: Why the silence of the institutional lambs?
Report from Pacific Media Watch
Opinion by Professor Wadan Narsey in Suva
There should have been institutional protests a few weeks ago when the Bainimarama government...
NZ unveils free TV broadcasting package for Pacific
Report by Alistar Kata
Eight hours a day of free-to-air New Zealand content is on offer to Pacific countries in a new broadcasting initiative backed...
‘Terrorist threat’ or political speech? States target social media
Report by Netizen Report in Paris
While the spectre of Daesh (ISIS) is nothing new for much of the Arab region, last month's attacks on...
#COP21: Expert warns climate crisis worse than we think, scientists self-censoring...
An Amy Goodman interview reporting from Paris. Image: Democracy Now!
Report by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
Before the United Nations climate change summit in Paris,...