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PHILIPPINES: NUJP raises alarm over safety of media workers after Mindanao shooting

14 Jul

REGION: AUT’s Pacific Media Watch ‘lighthouse’ role in freedom doco

12 Jul

PHILIPPINES: Rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent editor Maria Ressa

11 Jul

WEST PAPUA: Suffering will go on if NZ doesn’t take stand, says Rosa Moiwend

9 Jul

GLOBAL: A Turkish haven for Arab journalists - Al Jazeera's Listening Post

9 Jul

TAHITI: Marchers ‘mourn’ French nuclear weapons test legacy

5 Jul

Timor-Leste free speech, criminal defamation and protecting Maun Bo’ot (‘Big Brother’)

4 Jul

HONGKONG: Pro-democracy broadcaster Citizens’ Radio vandalised

3 Jul

TAHITI: Murder charges laid in case of journalist missing for 22 years

30 Jun

REGION: Ben Bohane wins $10,000 Bougainville mission grant for Pacific journalism

30 Jun

NZ: Herald paywall could turn readers to Stuff, warns AUT lecturer

27 Jun

AUSTRALIA: Journalists’ union joins media organisations in bid for press freedom protection

27 Jun

TONGA: Iconic publisher Kalafi Moala eyes new digital media challenge

25 Jun

REGION: USP staff want Fiji’s Thompson to step aside in probe

24 Jun

REGION: New climate journalism handbook targets ‘existential problem’

22 Jun

AUSTRALIA: Press freedom under police attack – Democracy Now! probes ABC raid

12 Jun

SAMOA: Censorship board bans Elton John movie Rocketman from cinemas

10 Jun

AUSTRALIA: Police raids on ABC: The day news theory became reality

8 Jun

AUSTRALIA: ABC raid 'chilling' for freedom of press - Pacific Media Watch updates

6 Jun

AUSTRALIA: MEAA blasts ‘disturbing assaults’ on press freedom after ABC raid

5 Jun

Pacific Media Watch article

18 Jan

PHILIPPINES: Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’

By Camille Abiel H. Torres, Charm Ryanne C. Magpali, Laurd Menhard Salen of The Varsitarian

MANILA (The Varsitarian/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): A New Zealand media academic and freedom advocate has warned that shutting down the Philippines’ largest and most popular media network would be a move toward dictatorship.

Article

17 Jan

Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption

For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through a ruthless private army and a reported “propensity for beheadings”, the clan cultivated a culture of impunity. Now, however, reports David Robie, a courageous judge has challenged the horror by jailing the masterminds of the 2009 Ampatuan massacre for life.

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Manila

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.

Event

ACMC 2020 - Asian Change, Adaptation and Innovation: Media, Communication and Culture

ACMC 2020 CONFERENCE RATIONALE - November 26-28