Friday, May 11, 2012
WELLINGTON (Radio NZ Checkpoint / Pacific Media Watch): The author of a report on Pacific Media Freedom says press freedom in the region is very fragile.
Professor David Robie, who is the head of the New Zealand-...
Monday, May 7, 2012
AUCKLAND (bFM/Pacific Media Watch): The Prime Minister of Fiji says he is following its own plan and not that of New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully or of the Pacific Islands Forum. That is despite a...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Brutal repression of journalists and civil rights in Indonesian-ruled West Papua, censorship and self-censorship in Fiji and abuses of a free press in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu have...
Monday, April 2, 2012
David Robie
NADI (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): "Never a dull moment – we make waiting fun,” says a Vodafone billboard promoting its latest products in Fiji’s Nadi international...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Alex Perrottet INTERVIEW: AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre / Pacific Media Watch): The death of King George Tupou V was unexpected for all, especially for family and close friends.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): While debates about the causes of climate change swing back and forth, the plight of those affected by it was played out tonight at the Pacific Media Centre at AUT University.
Film...
Monday, March 12, 2012
Ika Krismantari
JAKARTA (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): The voices of local workers in the world’s largest gold and copper mine controlled by the US-based mining giant Freeport McMoRan in West Papua can...
Sunday, March 4, 2012
WELLINGTON (RNZ Mediawatch / Pacific Media Watch): Emotional coverage of a law and order campaign; the Fiji regime's hired help; anguish over Wellington's 'spy car'; The Muppets trump welfare reform on...
Saturday, March 3, 2012
SYDNEY (Sky News Australia / Pacific Media Watch): In an exclusive interview with Graham Davis for Sky News, Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has lashed out at the governments of Australia and New Zealand,...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Philippa McDonald: After almost three years the censors have left Fiji's newsrooms. But has it made much of a difference - is it really making freedom of speech?
Friday, February 3, 2012
Ellen Tiamu
PORT MORESBY (The National / Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinean officials have confirmed that 238 passengers have been rescued from waters off the coast of Finschhafen, Morobe...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia's Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch): In November 2011, a delegation of journalists from the Asia Pacific region visited Australia as part of a media development program. The program...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Geraldene Coutts MELBOURNE (Radio Australia Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch):The Pacific Journalism Review has launched a new website - archiving regional media research dating back almost two decades.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Major media freedom surveys back NZ - but not other Pacific countries. Mediawatch interview.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Television New Zealand has profiled AUT journalism student and Kidzone presenter Kayne Peters in its IAMTV programme.
Peters recently completed a postgraduate diploma in communications studies (journalism) at AUT...
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