Tag: Pacific Media Centre
Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on...
By Monika Singh in Suva
New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a...
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 --...
Veteran West Papua independence leader elected ULMWP president
RNZ Pacific
Veteran West Papua independence campaigner Benny Wenda has been elected as president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).
The ULMWP held...
Critics call out ‘disappearance’ of Pacific media archive
"The PMC Project" . . . a 2016 short documentary about the centre by then student journalist and Pacific Media Watch editor Alistar Kata.
Pacific...
Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller...
OBITUARY: By David Robie
New Zealand-adopted Fiji journalist, sports writer, national news agency reporter, anti-coup activist, media freedom advocate, storyteller and mentor Sri Krishnamurthi has...
Latest Island Studies journal features social justice activism and advocacy
Asia Pacific Report
A new edition of the Okinawan Journal of Island Studies features social justice island activism, including a case study of Aotearoa New...
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...
Fate of NZ research centre highlights university ‘blindness’, media freedom
SPECIAL REPORT: By Dr Lee Duffield
The launch of a New Zealand project to produce more Pacific news and provide a “voice for the voiceless”...
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...
Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre still up in the air
By Justin Wong in Auckland
Auckland University of Technology has denied it is sidelining the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies, but...
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...
Gavin Ellis: The Pacific Media Centre must break free to survive
THE KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis
For many years I thought universities were the ideal place to establish centres of investigative journalism excellence. Now I’m...
Listen to the Pacific people plea to AUT over diversity future...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A retired university professor and a Tahitian doctoral candidate have appealed to Auckland University of Technology to “listen” to the Asia-Pacific...
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...
Outcry over signs of upheaval at Pacific Media Centre
Auckland University of Technology has denied claims that the Pacific Media Centre is being dumped or sidelined.
The centre's recently retired director Professor David Robie...
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...
Gallery: PMC celebrates Pacific ‘reset’ vision and farewells founding director
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre students, staff and journalists gathered at Auckland University of Technology this week and debated reset strategies for the...
Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered "live" in Auckland and "virtually" from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their...
AUT’s Pacific Media Watch ‘lighthouse’ role featured in freedom doco
The Pacific Media Watch mini documentary. Video: Blessen Tom and Sri Krishnamurthi
By Sri Krishnamurthi
“It’s a bit of a lighthouse” for vital regional news and...
NZ should learn from Pacific on media freedom issues, says PMC...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The head of an Auckland-based Pacific media watchdog says New Zealand “takes media freedom for granted” and could learn a lot...
Don’t be fooled by Fiji PM’s apology over arrests –...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Media commentator Gavin Ellis has condemned the state of media freedom in Fiji in the wake of the arrests and detention...
Student journalists gear up for Fiji election press, online coverage
By Kaelyn Dekarube in Suva
As part of their coverage of the 2018 Fiji general election this month, University of the South Pacific student journalists...