Tag: 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...
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...
Solomon Islands students impressive at 18th USP journalism awards
By Wansolwara Staff
Solomon Islands student journalists impressed at the annual University of the South Pacific media awards marking the 50th year of the Fiji-based...
Pacific storytelling with a focus on the ignored and ‘untold’ issues
A video made by an AUT screen production graduate, Sasya Wreksono, marking the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC
PROFILE: By Craig...
ABC’s shortwave cutback ‘weakens thin link’ for Pacific, says PMC
By Leilani Sitagata of Pacific Media Watch
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s cutback in services to the Asia-Pacific region has “weakened the thin link” that many...
Former PCF media intern welcomes Pacific newbies on NZ exchange
By Rahul Bhattarai
It was a case of Pacific meets Pacific in AUT’s School of Communication Studies this week as one of the inaugural winners...
Free media week killings underscore crimes of impunity against journalists
The media freedom monitoring group Reporters Without Borders details how it has trained journalists in Afghanistan to be aware of double suicide bomb attacks....
Gallery: Pacific colour and style spice-up AUT communication studies awards
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Colourful Pacific scenes from the AUT School of Communication Studies annual media awards at the Sir Paul Reeves Building communications precinct...
Asia-Pacific media must ‘empower people’ on climate action, says PMC
Apriline Widani of the Centre for Southeast Asia Social Studies (CESASS) at the Universitas Gadjah Mada talks to the Pacific Media Centre director Professor...
PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre project students and interns announced for the year this week include two budding documentary makers and a seasoned...
Hiroshima experience sparks new PMC researcher’s peace studies path
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A postdoctoral researcher who has recently joined AUT’s Pacific Media Centre was inspired to carry out peace studies research when she...
PMC’s 10th birthday Pacific ‘overview’ highlighted on national radio
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre, well established as a champion for media freedom, celebrated its 10th anniversary last week and the milestone...
PMC photojournalism book offers ‘window’ into Pacific culture, issues
Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary in pictures. Video: Kendall Hutt/PMC
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The Pacific Media Centre kicked off its 10th anniversary celebrations last...
Global research project examines ‘social impact’ of natural disasters
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
How Indonesian society manages in the face of natural disasters is the focus of a global research collaboration as part...
PMC’s monographs launched on Tuwhera in ‘exciting initiative’
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
The Pacific Media Centre’s peer-reviewed research monographs have been launched on the Auckland University of Technology Library’s...
‘Asia-Pacific uniting, working together’ – Gadjah Mada team arrives in NZ
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
Academics from the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia have arrived in New Zealand in a major research...
Pacific exchange student journalists wrap-up internships
Pacific Cooperation Foundation media interns Shivika Mala and Linda Filiai visit the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Student journalists from across...