Corruption

PNG: From ‘anticipation, excitement’ to dictatorship fears in general election

8 Jul

PNG: Transparency sets up free hot line to report corruption during election

28 Jun

PNG: New governance watchdog PNGi exposes business networks of PM O'Neill

22 Jun

REGION: Indonesian anticorruption activist George Aditjondro dies in Palu

13 Dec

VIDEO: Student shootings in PNG, j-schools, corruption and climate change at WJEC16

12 Dec

GLOBAL: Anti-Corruption Day: Journalists on front line at risk

11 Dec

Anti-Corruption Day: Journalists on front line of fight against corruption

11 Dec

BURMA: Press law concerns after media chiefs detained

15 Nov

BURMA: ‘Let media in if there is nothing to hide’, says CPJ

9 Nov

REGION: Corruption in the Pacific and the role of the media

8 Jul

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Pacific Media Watch article

7 Oct

INDONESIA: Facebook removes hundreds of fake Indonesian, West Papua accounts

JAKARTA (Reuters/Al Jazeera/Pacific Media Watch): Facebook has removed over 100 fake accounts linked to operations in Indonesia for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour,” reports Reuters.

The accounts, which were also on Instagram, appeared in Indonesian and English and featured content which either criticised or supported the West Papuan independence movement.

Pacific Media Watch article

4 Oct

WEST PAPUA: Veronica Koman 'won't be silenced' despite daily death threats

SYDNEY (ETAN/SBS/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): A pro-Papuan lawyer who has been threatened with an Interpol Red Notice said she has received daily rape and death threats as the uprising in the Indonesian provinces ramps up.

Publication

31 Jul

The NZ Mosque Massacre: Dilemmas for journalism and democracy

Edited by David Robie and Philip Cass

Publication

31 May

Science Writing and Climate Change - a new environmental journalism book

“Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local readers, is understandable.

Event

Melanesian Media Freedom Forum 2019

MELANESIAN MEDIA FREEDOM FORUM 2019 - November 11-13
The Melanesian Media Freedom Forum was developed to respond to increasing media repression in Melanesia and to future-proof press freedom, though trans-national regional co-operation and knowledge-sharing among Melanesian journalists, editors, publishers, press-freedom advocates and journalism scholars.

Event

ACMC 2020 - Asian Change, Adaptation and Innovation: Media, Communication and Culture

ACMC 2020 CONFERENCE RATIONALE - November 26-28