Pacific Media Watch Nius

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

18 Jan

REGION: Radio storytelling and community empowerment in Vinzons

6 Jan

REGION: Pacific Media Watch contributing editor wins Jakarta practicum

18 Nov

REGION: PJR acting editor doubtful Australian TV relevant to Pacific

7 Nov

KIRIBATI: Australian news crew detained for providing ‘false information’

30 Oct

WEST PAPUA: PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on rights violations

29 Oct

AUSTRALIA: Media Freedom Act – here’s how it could work

22 Oct

FIJI: Top USP journo student dedicates win to family

21 Oct

REGION: Who is Judge Dredd and why it matters that media invoke the cartoon character

18 Oct

FIJI: Former USP Vice Chancellor ‘violated’ norms, say staff and students

14 Oct

INDONESIA: Facebook removes hundreds of fake Indonesian, West Papua accounts

7 Oct

WEST PAPUA: Veronica Koman 'won't be silenced' despite daily death threats

4 Oct

REGION: 'Sustainable' Pasifika influence growing in New Zealand society, says academic

2 Oct

REGION: Ethics needed in computing and tech to stop ‘robber barons’, says academic

22 Sep

AUSTRALIA: Attorney-General grants limited protection to embattled journalists

1 Oct

WEST PAPUA: Intimidation of journos condemned

27 Sep

VANUATU: Local journalist to enhance investigative skills in US

24 Sep

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

18 Sep

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

16 Sep

REGION: Media associates pay tribute to ‘Akilisi Pohiva

12 Sep

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.