Tag: Pacific Journalism Review
Pacific Journalism Review at 30 – a strong media legacy
COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Devpolicy Blog
Pacific Journalism Review (PJR) began life three decades ago in Papua New Guinea and recently celebrated a remarkable...
Pacific media academics slam global research journal model, defend regional niche...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media academics have criticised the economics of global research journal publication models and defended independent publications such as Pacific Journalism Review...
When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share...
Pacific Media Watch
Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital of Suva. There was...
Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a...
Professor Vijay Naidu's speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva,...
Pacific media in crisis, warns former PNG, Samoa editor Alex Rheeney
NBC News
A former newspaper editor believes the journalism profession in Papua New Guinea and other Pacific Island countries is in crisis.
Team leader of the...
Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza
Pacific Journalism Review
Pacific Journalism Review has challenged journalists to take a courageous and humanitarian stand over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in its latest...
Independent PJR ‘far more than a research journal’, says founder
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Journalism Review founder Dr David Robie says PJR has published more than 1100 research articles over its three decades of existence...
Pacific Media Conference to celebrate 30th birthday of Pacific Journalism Review
By Mark Pearson
Journalists, publishers, academics, diplomats and NGO representatives from throughout the Asia-Pacific region will gather for the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference hosted...
PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand's only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year --...
Asia Pacific community and media research group goes online
Asia Pacific Report
A community-based Asia-Pacific network of academics, journalists and activists has now gone online with an umbrella website for its publications, current affairs...
Indonesian media ‘favours state voice’ on West Papua, PJR research finds
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
News media in Indonesia act as "government loudspeakers" by advancing a one-sided narrative regarding...
Researchers warn over climate crisis ‘fringe views’ danger as NZ election...
By David Robie
Two researchers examining responses to conspiratorial pandemic narratives have warned Aotearoa New Zealand not to be complacent over the risk of fringe...
Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The media sector in the Pacific should be supported with an enabling environment to...
Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR
Pacific Journalism Review
Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training...
Asia Pacific media network plans wider community brief
Pacific Media Watch
A media network publishing an international research journal has vowed to expand its activities into community media and training initiatives.
The non-profit Asia...
Canterbury appoints Ratuva as first Te Amorangi in Pacific leadership team
Asia Pacific Report
Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva has added yet another first to his long list of accomplishments, becoming the University of Canterbury’s first Te...
NZ’s Parliament siege, ‘disinformation war’, kava and media change featured in...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Frontline investigative articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament protester siege, social media disinformation and Asia-Pacific media changes and adaptations are...
Social justice research network awards trophy to Papuan student advocate
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
A new Asia Pacific social justice research and publication nonprofit has awarded a diversity communications trophy to a West Papuan postgraduate...
Pacific media dangers: ‘I had death threats and my tyres slashed...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Joyce McClure in Guam
I spent five years as the lone journalist on the remote Pacific island of Yap. During that time...
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...
Two decades on from 9/11 and a Pacific newsroom sense of...
FLASHBACK: By David Robie
When I arrived at my office at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji on the morning of 12 September...
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...