Pacific Media Watch Nius

FIJI: Police detain 3 NZ journalists investigating Chinese developer

4 Apr

REGION: Cuba boosting ‘Pacific connection’ in defiance of US blockade

3 Apr

NZ: Mediawatch: Reporting Islam before and after 15/3

31 Mar

NZ: Facebook to clamp down on hate in response to Christchurch mosque attack

30 Mar

PHILIPPINES: Editor Ressa arrested on new charge against embattled Rappler

30 Mar

NZ: How journalists can improve diversity in the media

28 Mar

GLOBAL: RSF condemns China’s ‘global press freedom threat’ in new report

26 Mar

AUSTRALIA: Social media bosses face jail over terror content after Christchurch

26 Mar

NZ: How Christchurch mosque assault has made a mark on media

25 Mar

GLOBAL: New Zealander’s image of togetherness chosen for Time magazine

23 Mar

NZ: Online hate speech ‘gives green light’ to religion, race attacks

20 Mar

REGION: Pacific Media Watch student editor takes up key news role

19 Mar

NZ: Citizens have no good use for machine guns - NZ Herald editorial

19 Mar

NZ: Christchurch terror attacks - advertisers to pull social media ads

19 Mar

NZ: ‘Blood everywhere’ - 50 deaths in massacre at mosques, reports RNZ

15 Mar

REGION: Journalism education at USP – a 30-year struggle for free press

13 Mar

NZ: Hearts and minds – how new media ‘cold war’ soft power impacts

12 Mar

INDONESIA: Activist’s arrest shows Widodo ‘no different’ from Suharto, says AJI

9 Mar

WEST PAPUA: ‘Not a big deal’ claim police, reject UN call for snake probe

23 Feb

TONGA: Hard-hitting documentary explores ‘deportee dumping’ lives

19 Feb

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