Sabbatical

Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling

20 Oct

Pacific Media Watch article

6 Apr

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

AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Radio 95bFM/Pacific Media Watch): From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an “authoritarianism creep” by governments in the Asia-Pacific region provided a fast-changing landscape on the Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM today.

Pacific Media Watch article

4 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.