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AUSTRALIA: ABC warrant case shows ‘system is broken’ – change law, says MEAA

28 Feb

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

28 Aug

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

23 Aug

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

9 Aug

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

28 Jul

AUSTRALIA: Increasing surveillance 'deeply concerning', says MEAA

21 Jul

WEST PAPUA: Indonesian crackdown on peaceful UN vote petition signers

17 Jul

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

12 Jul

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Police force rearms after 14 years

17 May

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

2 Nov

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Pacific Media Watch article

9 Apr

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

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): After some weeks of heavy criticism of Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape’s government amid the Covid-19 pandemic, support for the administration has come from a surprising quarter – one of the media.

Pacific Media Watch article

7 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.