Pacific Media Watch Nius

PNG: What are the lessons with Covid-19? Seeing the ironies through a PNG lens

24 Mar

PNG: Marape orders lockdown as Covid-19 response ramps up

23 Mar

REGION: Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

20 Mar

NZ: Borders closed to anyone not a citizen or permanent resident

19 Mar

PNG: Drama and panic as Marape government blunders through first Covid-19 crisis

18 Mar

REGION: More Pacific countries bracing for coronavirus cases as Fiji on alert

18 Mar

REGION: Highly experienced journalist named PMW contributing editor

18 Mar

REGION: Coronavirus threat to Pacific, Papuan students in NZ and a starfish scourge

17 Mar

PNG: Highlands tribal fighting in Porgera – Scott Waide backgrounds the conflict

17 Mar

REGION: Pacific borders tightened further in bid to keep out coronavirus

15 Mar

WEST PAPUA: Education key to better life, says one of 120 students in NZ

15 Mar

COOK ISLANDS: Conservationists rescue coral reefs from starfish scourge

11 Mar

TAHITI: French Polynesia records first coronavirus case with lawmaker

11 Mar

NZ: Stuff's #MeToo campaign two years in

11 Mar

GLOBAL: Scientists call for media sobriety amid Covid-19 fake news ‘infodemic’

11 Mar

NZ: RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ

10 Mar

SAMOA: Sunday Samoan: Sex crimes, truth and pride in Samoa

8 Mar

WEST PAPUA: #I’llridewithyou, West Papua – three women who speak out

7 Mar

NZ: Australian investigative journalist working for Al Jazeera barred entry

7 Mar

TIMOR-LESTE: Murdered journalists a ‘hurdle’ for Jakarta in concealing invasion

6 Mar

Pacific Media Watch article

6 Jul

NZ: RNZ Mediawatch: Forcing the issue of race at the Herald

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
WELLINGTON (RNZ Mediawatch/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): The New Zealand Herald recently published a column which criticises its own record on race. Teuila Fuatai explains why she felt she had to call out the paper that commissioned her.

Pacific Media Watch article

6 Jul

REGION: Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation

AUCKLAND (95bFM/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Thirty five years ago this week Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on board the original Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship that was bombed by French secret agents on 10 July 1985.

He was on board for almost 11 weeks and joined the Greenpeace campaigners in the Marshall Islands to rescue the Rongelap islanders from the legacy of US nuclear tests.

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.