Pandemic

REGION: Selfish lockdown breaches cause headaches in Fiji, NZ

12 Apr

PNG: Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row

12 Apr

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

9 Apr

REGION: Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time

6 Apr

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

4 Apr

PHILIPPINES: Duterte’s ‘shoot them dead’ virus order to troops slammed as dangerous

3 Apr

PNG : 9 border crossers arrested while governor calls for ‘shoot to kill’ order

2 Apr

NZ: Southern Cross: Fate of community, local language papers in the balance

1 Apr

PNG: Pacific coronavirus: Indonesia issues ‘no mercy’ warning on border crossing

30 Mar

REGION: Effective coronavirus messages and fake news: Can we do better?

28 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.