Tag: Pacific Media 2024
Polarised media undermines democracy, professor warns at Pacific media conference
By Kaneta Naimatau in Suva
In a democracy, citizens must critically evaluate issues based on facts. However in a very polarised society, people focus more...
A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva
Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific,...
Pacific journalists’ resilience shines through at historic conference
By Justin Latif in Suva
Despite the many challenges faced by Pacific journalists in recent years, the recent Pacific International Media Conference highlighted the incredible...
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...
‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment...
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager
Delegates at a Pacific media conference in Fiji two weeks ago heard harrowing stories of female reporters facing threats...
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...
Fiji, anchor of Indonesian diplomacy in the Pacific – a view...
Indonesia's commitment to the Pacific continues to be strengthened. One of the strategies is through a commitment to resolving human rights cases in Papua,...
Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in...
By Jai Bharadwaj of The Australia Today
A pivotal book, Waves of Change: Media, Peace, and Development in the Pacific, has been released at the...
Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all...
By Ivy Mallam of Wansolwara
Media professionals have been urged to undergo gender sensitisation training to produce more inclusive, accurate and ethical representation of women...
Pacific media conference: challenges and opportunities
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager
A group of regional and international media representatives met at a forum in Fiji last week to discuss some...
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...
Newsmakers dissect state and future of Pacific journalism
By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network News
If the pen is mightier than the sword, then an army of journalists has assembled in Fiji’s...
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...
Award-winning academics, journos lined up for Pacific Media 2024
By Ritika Pratap, deputy news manager of FBC News
Five high-profile, international award-winning journalists and journalism academics will join their regional media counterparts to address...
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 --...