Development Communication

GLOBAL: AMIC chair calls for more independent Asian research direction

18 Jun

REGION: Climate change ethics, Lau development and a 'brown' take on Campbell Live

20 Apr

Climate risk communication in Kiribati: 'We told them, but they didn't bother'

17 Apr

PNG: Education needs 'urgent intervention', says O'Neill

13 Apr

PNG: Ioro people fed up with Bougainville mining tug-of-war

25 Mar

VANUATU: Regenvanu expects 50% of people struck by Pam to be homeless

19 Mar

VANUATU: Daily Post due out after super cyclone disaster gap

19 Mar

Gordon Campbell on the Vanuatu cyclone and media 'disaster porn'

18 Mar

VANUATU: Super Cyclone Pam: ‘We have no water, nothing,’ says chief

18 Mar

REGION: Future of Pacific fisheries, food security top key regional forum issues

3 Mar

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Pacific Media Watch article

29 May

REGION: Australian ‘soft power’ push in Pacific with $17m free TV deal misses mark

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Homegrown Australian television shows to the tune of $17.1 million will be broadcast in the Pacific in a bid believed intended to stymie China’s diplomatic and media rise in the region.

Pacific Media Watch article

25 May

NZ: Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1

AUCKLAND (RNZ News/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Centre): Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1 to return the media company to New Zealand ownership.

The sale is expected to be completed by May 31.

“Our plan is to transition the ownership of Stuff to give staff a direct stake in the business as shareholders,” Boucher said in a statement.

Publication

17 Feb

Pacific Media Centre Annual Review 2019

The Pacific Media Centre (PMC) had another busy and productive year publishing, researching and providing advocacy on several Asia-Pacific issues.

Publication

31 Jul

Toktok No 39 / Winter 2019

PMC UNVEILS CREATIVE SHOWCASE

Event

Amnesty On Campus: Human rights and Southeast Asia

6pm - 8 pm, Wednesday, March 18
Pat Hanan Room, Arts 2, University of Auckland

CANCELLED AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PRECAUTION

AMNESTY ON CAMPUS UoA: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Speakers:
Media freedom and Southeast Human Rights: Focus on the Philippines - Professor David Robie, director, Pacific Media Centre
West Papua - Author Maire Leadbeater
Violations against the Rohingya - Kyaw

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.