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WEST PAPUA: ‘We’ll not be safe with Indonesia,’ says Benny Wenda

11 May

PNG: Keith Jackson on Turnbull — media snubs, refugee jitters and money problems

12 Apr

GLOBAL: Diplomats 'easing' into social media, MFAT chief tells Otago seminar

4 Jul

REGION: Radio Waatea and The Daily Blog's Fifth Estate on 'Pacific tensions'

17 Jun

FIJI: NZ news media 'generally hostile', says Bainimarama

10 Jun

REGION: New Zealand could offer more jobs, says PACER Plus team

10 Aug

GLOBAL: Pacific anger lingers 30 years after the Rainbow Warrior spy 'fiasco'

9 Jul

WEST PAPUA: Independence movement faces make-or-break political test

25 Jun

WEST PAPUA: ULMWP members hope unity will guarantee MSG membership

22 Jun

COOK ISLANDS: UN membership bid puts NZ relations 'at risk'

22 Jun

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Pacific Media Watch article

9 Apr

PNG: Government doing its best amid coronavirus crisis, says journalist

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): After some weeks of heavy criticism of Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape’s government amid the Covid-19 pandemic, support for the administration has come from a surprising quarter – one of the media.

Pacific Media Watch article

7 Apr

NZ: Otago University will not answer Critic’s criticisms in virus editorial

DUNEDIN (RNZ News/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand’s Otago University will not respond to questions from Critic, the student magazine on campus, during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.

The decision comes after Critic published a scathing editorial about the university’s response to the virus.

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.