Tag: Pacific Media Centre
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...
Pacific exchange journalists begin NZ media ‘awareness’ internship
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
Pacific exchange journalists kicked off their two-week internship in New Zealand with a visit to the Pacific...
PMC to host visiting Pacific exchange student journalists
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
The Pacific Media Centre will host three student journalists today in the opening session of a two-week attachment media programme...
Wansolwara student journos report on West Papua human rights struggle
By Vilimaina Naqelevuki in Suva
Media access to West Papua, where more than half a million of its indigenous people have reportedly been killed over...
Fiji needs better urban planning to reduce climate change impact, says...
By Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in Suva
The effects of climate change on vulnerable areas throughout Fiji could be reduced if the island nation...
PMC journalists gear up for new ‘Bearing Witness’ climate challenge
The Pacific Media Centre's popular “Bearing Witness” climate change project enters its second year next month.
As part of a collaborative venture between Auckland University...
Vanuatu Daily Post marks 5000 issues – celebrating a pioneer of...
From the Vanuatu Daily Post's celebration special edition today:
Marc Neil-Jones’ newspaper Vanuatu Daily Post celebrates an historic milestone today. We need to remember how...
West Papua supporters gather at PMC for Morning Star flag event
A West Papua video marking the global Morning Star flag-raising event today.
About 20 academics, librarians, journalists, students and Pacific issues activists gathered at the...