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A life well lived paves way to encourage Pasifika women in communication

6 Feb

REGION: Tagata Pasifika goes down memory lane – 30 years of broadcasts

4 Apr

FIJI: Wansolwara journo's receive top awards

27 Oct

REGION: Sport commentators stir anger over 'butchered' Pasifika names

18 May

Pacific Journalism Monographs No 5: Pacific Way: Auckland's Pasifika community diaspora media

18 Mar

NZ: Pasifika diaspora media book launched - first of its kind

18 Mar

NZ: Diversity, Pacific reporting skills win Alistar Kata awards double

24 Apr

NZ: TVNZ names 'preferred' companies for outsourced Māori, Pasifika shows

15 Dec

NZ:Pasifika fono to discuss controversial TVNZ outsourcing plan

1 Nov

VIDEO: Kiribati's 'My Mother' video scores prize in climate film festival

1 Nov

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Article

25 Aug

West Papua’s road to 'independence', following the Timorese lead?

The groundswell of regional support continues to grow in the Pacific - and also globally - for West Papuan self-determination, writes David Robie. The latest repression only adds to this momentum.

Indonesia’s harsh policies towards West Papua ought to be scrapped. Whatever happened to the brief window of enlightenment ushered in by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in 2015 with promises of a more “open door” policy towards foreign journalists and human rights groups?

Pacific Media Watch article

24 Aug

WEST PAPUA: RSF calls for immediate end to internet blackout

PARIS (Reporters Without Borders/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for an immediate end to a two-day-old internet blackout in West Papua, where Indonesian security forces have been clashing with Papuan pro-independence demonstrators.

The blackout violates the freedom to inform and makes it hard for journalists to work, RSF said.

Publication

1 Aug

The NZ Mosque Massacre: Dilemmas for journalism and democracy

Edited by David Robie and Philip Cass

Publication

1 Jun

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.