Editorial

WEST PAPUA: The Jakarta Post: 'Our integration of Papua has missed the human element'

21 Aug

SAMOA: Mystery deaths, assassination plot, forgery, drugs. What’s going on?

20 Aug

TONGA: Government must strike balance between protecting free expression and reacting to royal slurs, says Kaniva Tonga

16 Aug

TONGA: Matangi Tonga condemns state for ‘annihilating’ public broadcasting

17 Oct

SAMOA: Tackling two sides of the story - when it's more than climate change

16 May

SAMOA: Opinion: Samoa Observer on the 'playing the palagi' card

13 May

VANUATU: Daily Post editorial - Freedom of speech comes with responsibility

18 Mar

FIJI: Prepared? Yes, but devastation of Winston was overwhelming

26 Feb

FIJI: Koro’s nightmare – no chance for the people against Winston’s fury

24 Feb

FIJI: Danger lurks but tales of heroism are emerging, says Times editor

24 Feb

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Pacific Media Watch article

18 Jan

PHILIPPINES: Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’

By Camille Abiel H. Torres, Charm Ryanne C. Magpali, Laurd Menhard Salen of The Varsitarian

MANILA (The Varsitarian/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): A New Zealand media academic and freedom advocate has warned that shutting down the Philippines’ largest and most popular media network would be a move toward dictatorship.

Article

17 Jan

Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption

For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through a ruthless private army and a reported “propensity for beheadings”, the clan cultivated a culture of impunity. Now, however, reports David Robie, a courageous judge has challenged the horror by jailing the masterminds of the 2009 Ampatuan massacre for life.

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Manila

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