Security

PHILIPPINES: Duterte's brutal 'war on the poor' and also those reporting it

29 Aug

WEST PAPUA: Southern Cross explores 'endemic' violence by Indonesian forces

24 Aug

NZ: Southern Cross on nuclear weapon ban treaty, US Asia-Pacific presence

10 Aug

AUSTRALIA: RSF condemns 'alarming bid' to crack message encryption

29 Jul

AUSTRALIA: Increasing surveillance 'deeply concerning', says MEAA

22 Jul

WEST PAPUA: Indonesian crackdown on peaceful UN vote petition signers

18 Jul

GLOBAL: Autocracy strikes back - media freedom under siege in Arabia

13 Jul

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Police force rearms after 14 years

18 May

GLOBAL: Women's Media Foundation launches security app for journalists

3 Nov

Café Pacific: From a coconet spy tempest to TPPA secrecy

10 Mar

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Pacific Media Watch article

18 Sep

FIJI: Pacific journos converge in Suva to discuss ‘critical issues’

By Wansolwara staff
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): Twelve leading journalists from 11 Pacific Island countries will converge in Suva, Fiji, this Friday to discuss critical issues affecting the region including climate change and natural disaster relief and recovery and regional security.

Pacific Media Watch article

16 Sep

WEST PAPUA: Veronica Koman speaks out against Indonesian police 'intimidation'

AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman has spoken out for the first time since police accused her of inciting unrest in West Papua two weeks ago.

In an international press statement released on Facebook, Koman said she had chosen not to respond to the accusations as they were an attempt to divert attention away from the “real crisis currently gripping West Papua".

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.