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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

AUSTRALIA: RSF condemns police raid on journalist’s home as ‘intimidation’

5 Jun

AUSTRALIA: MEAA protests over police raid on News Corp journalist’s home

4 Jun

Pacific Media Watch article

18 Nov

REGION: Pacific Media Watch contributing editor wins Jakarta practicum

By Sri Krishnamurthi

AUCKLAND: (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): The 2019 Pacific Media Watch contributing editor has been selected for a 6-week journalism practicum in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Michael Andrew was one of two New Zealand candidates selected for the Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies Journalism Professional Practicum (ACICIS), which will see him living in one of Asia’s largest cities and reporting on local and regional issues.

Pacific Media Watch article

7 Nov

REGION: PJR acting editor doubtful Australian TV relevant to Pacific

AUCKLAND: (SBS News/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Acting editor of the Pacific Media Centre's Pacific Journalism Review Dr Philip Cass has cast doubt on the success of Australia's plans to export TV shows to the Pacific.

In November last year, the Scott Morrison government announced a $17 million deal to share 1000 hours of top-rating Australian content a year with the Pacific in an effort to improve connections in the region.

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