Pacific Media Watch Nius

INDONESIA: Global media decry arrest of environmental journalist

23 Jan

PHILIPPINES: Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back

23 Jan

WEST PAPUA: Why is NZ turning its back on Indonesian human rights abuses?

23 Jan

INDONESIA: Mongabay editor arrested – one month after authorities detained him

22 Jan

FIJI: School workbook condemned for promoting ‘harmful’ gender roles

22 Jan

WEST PAPUA: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children

21 Jan

AUSTRALIA: Hidden women of history: Undercover journalist in asylums, hospitals

21 Jan

PHILIPPINES: Textbooks should highlight Marcos dictatorship atrocities, says Robredo

21 Jan

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

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.