Tag: Research
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...
Praise for young Pacific journalists and threats to Melanesian journalism
SPECIAL REPORT: By Philip Cass in Brisbane
Melanesian Media Freedom Forum - Day two: The second day of the Melanesian Media Freedom Forum began with...
Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’
BOOKS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth "coup...
Racist reporting still rife in Australian media, says new monitoring report
By Dr Christina Ho in Sydney
Half of all race-related opinion pieces in the Australian mainstream media are likely to contravene industry codes of conduct...
PMC’s David Robie and Gadjah Mada team in Indonesian academic exchange
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Professor David Robie, director of the Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, and seven academics from Indonesia’s Universitas Gadjah Mada...
Lawmaker wants to dissolve ‘waste of money’ anti-graft, rights watchdogs
By Rizky Andwika in Jakarta
Indonesia's Coalition to Safeguard the National Human Rights Commission has conducted research on the track record of 60 National Human...
Cook Islands plays role in Pacific research mapping media culture
By Rashneel Kumar in Avarua, Rarotonga
The Cook Islands is part of a 12-nation research project to comprehensively map Pacific Islands journalism culture at a...
An Indonesian oasis of progressive creativity emerges in culture city
Dr Max Lane, pictured here with Faiza Mardzoeki, talks about his project to establish a community and activist library for the student city of...
‘Going backstage’: Swiss researcher reveals public broadcast practices
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
In an ever-changing news environment, one academic and researcher has "gone backstage" at Switzerland’s public broadcasting company to better understand...
Asia Pacific Report tribute to Teresia Teaiwa – thanks to Tagata...
Dr Teresia Teaiwa featured in a Tagata Pasifika video when winning the Manukau Institute of Technology Pacific Education Award prize at the SunPix Pacific...
NZ ‘relentlessly Pākehā’ newsrooms improving, says researcher
There are still too few Māori in New Zealand’s newsrooms, media researcher Julie Middleton says.
Middleton, who has worked for the New Zealand Herald, the...
Out-of-date textbooks put sustainable development at risk, says report
By Kate Redman in Paris
A new study by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report shows secondary school textbooks from the 1950s until...
Arab Spring opened some media freedoms in spite of the overall...
By Pacific Media Watch
The Arab Spring opened the door to some greater freedoms in Middle East news media and some social change in spite...
Media coverage of war atrocities opens debate on INFOCORE research
Media is going through a "tremendous transformation as a result of the ever-changing, global media landscape". Video: Euronews
By Elena Cavalione of Euronews
In a world...
Aus ban on refugees goes against international law, says NGO
The Australian government’s recent announcement to ban Manus Island and Nauru refugees arriving to the country by boat goes against international law, says Amnesty...
New report details human rights abuses in West Papua
A new report detailing the human rights abuses in West Papua has been published this week. The research aims to convince Pacific leaders on...
Nothing Else healthy snack bar takes on commercial market
By Denise Yeo
The AUT Food Network has celebrated the commercial launch of the Nothing Else bar, a milestone achievement after years of rigorous research...
Sue Bradford: Introducing the ESRA ‘think tank’ vision
By Sue Bradford
For decades activists and intellectuals as diverse as Bruce Jesson, Annette Sykes, Brian Easton, Jane Kelsey and Bryce Edwards have lamented the...
Pacific Journalism Review raises bar on West Papua, corruption issues
Pacific Media Centre chair Dr Camille Nakhid has praised the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review with a launch coinciding with the Fourth World...
WJEC16: Editors tell of ‘perils and pitfalls’ of research publishing
By Husain Malvi
Research journal editors and publishers are often faced with a range of challenges when producing publications outside the Northern Hemisphere elite. At...
WJEC16: New PJR features West Papua, endangered journalists and freelancers
Pacific Journalism Review has featured West Papua media missions, "endangered journalists" and freelancers in the Asia-Pacific region in the latest edition of the research...
WJEC16: Journalism vital to Pacific culture, public interest, says research chief
By TJ Aumua
The World Journalism Education Congress preconference for JERAA and the region began today and brought together Pacific journalism educators to improve the...