Tag: Pacific journalism
Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice
By Matilda Yates, Queensland University of Technology
“From a white perspective it is journalism but for us, it is actually storytelling,” says Fiji student...
Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific
Global Voices interviews veteran author, journalist and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism education, and the role of the...
50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a...
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, manager of RNZ Pacific
This King's Birthday, the New Zealand Order of Merit recognises Professor David Robie's 50 years of service to...
TVNZ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver awarded ONZM for investigative journalism
Pacific Media Watch
Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to...
USP to host ‘critical issues’ Pacific media conference to shape future
By Monika Singh
The University of the South Pacific will host a major Pacific international media conference in July to address critical issues in the...
PNG’s Masiu warns USP journalism students to defend free press
By Monika Singh in Suva
Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of any vibrant democracy and society's collective responsibility to safeguard and protect it,...
Pacific journos urged not to let geopolitics ‘skew their narratives’
RNZ Pacific
The editor of the Marshall Islands Journal, Giff Johnson, is urging Pacific journalists not to be swayed by geopolitical narratives and to stay...
‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first...
By Sri Krishnamurthi
Highly respected and convivial Koroi Hawkins has become RNZ Pacific's first Melanesian editor after arriving in New Zealand in 2014 and says...
French Polynesia plans journalism study grants to combat disinformation
Pacific Media Watch
President Édouard Fritch of French Polynesia says he wants to boost funds to study journalism in French Polynesia in a bid to...
Star Post-Courier ‘frontline’ reporter Miriam Zarriga now new chief-of-staff
PNG Post-Courier
Miriam Zarriga, one of Papua New Guinea's top experienced journalists, has been appointed as the PNG Post-Courier's new chief-of-staff.
With more than 10 years...
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...
Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR
Pacific Journalism Review
A Frontline investigative journalism article on the politics behind the decade-long Bougainville war leading up to the overwhelming vote for independence is...
Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle
By David Robie
Pacific journalism educators are worried that the global covid pandemic has threatened media development programmes in a vast region of island microstates...
Major NZ media networks collaborate to develop talented Pacific journalists
Pacific Media Network News
The number and quality of Pacific journalists are expected to rise in a never before seen collaboration between four major New...
Ena Manuireva: AUT can – and should – do better
COMMENTARY: A postgraduate researcher view by Ena Manuireva
Year 2020 was the annus horribilis worldwide due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Recently the Fiji government...
AUT defends its controversial role over PMC, but ‘office’ still a...
The Pacific Newsroom
Auckland University of Technology has responded to queries from a media aid watchdog about the future of the regional Pacific Media Centre...
Who is killing off top Pacific journalism – and why?
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Without much in the way of a credible explanation about why, Aotearoa New Zealand education authorities are killing...
Pacific reporting among first casualties of struggling NZ media, says academic
By Michael Andrew
International and Pacific reporting are among the first casualties of struggling New Zealand newsrooms as they try to cut costs to make...
PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their "deafening silence"...
Pacific journos converge in Suva to discuss ‘critical issues’
By Wansolwara staff in Suva
Twelve leading journalists from 11 Pacific Island countries will converge in Suva, Fiji, this Friday to discuss critical issues affecting the region...
USP hosts talks on social media and fake news in Pacific
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Journalists have gathered for a three-day event at the University of the South Pacific in Suva to discuss the rise of...
Ben Bohane wins $10,000 Bougainville mission grant for Pacific journalism
By Michael Andrew
A Pacific Media Centre collaborator has been awarded the inaugural Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism at the 2019 Walkley Mid-Year Celebration.
Vanuatu-based...