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Pacific Media Centre
Pacific Media Centre
An independent research and publication centre specialising in Asia-Pacific current affairs. The Pacific Media Centre | Te Amokura in AUT University's School of Communication Studies publishes PMC Online, Pacific Journalism Review, Pacific Journalism Monographs, Pacific Media Watch and Asia Pacific Report in partnership with Scoop Media. Director Professor David Robie also publishes the media blog Cafe Pacific.
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KIRIBATI: State television closes with 'financial problems'
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 11:12 am | Pacific Media Centre
Television Kiribati, the government-owned television station, has closed down. President Anote Tong said that apart from the TV's serious financial problems, the station lacked expertise and knowledge in television programming and production. More >>
AUT's Sir Paul Reeves digital media building
Monday, 25 March 2013, 2:27 pm | Pacific Media Centre
The newest building at Auckland University of Technology has been dedicated to a former chancellor of the university, the late Sir Paul Reeves, and is a digital media showcase. More >>
REGION: Jim A. Richstad, PhD, journalist, adventurer, teache
Friday, 8 February 2013, 12:29 pm | Pacific Media Centre
The celebrated American and Pacific media educator, journalist and adventurer Jim A. Richstad has died recently aged 80. He played a huge role in the establishment of journalism training regimes in the Pacific Islands during his work as a researcher ... More >>
Call for Papers: Media and Democracy in the Pacific, USP
Friday, 22 June 2012, 2:34 pm | Pacific Media Centre
Pacific Media Centre | Call for Papers | Media and Democracy in the Pacific, USP, Suva, Sept 5-6, 2012 | Updates More >>
New Pacific Media Freedom Video with a Focus on NZ
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 4:16 pm | Pacific Media Centre
http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/ ENDS More >>
New Media Book Offers Many Cultural Insights
Sunday, 4 March 2012, 12:14 pm | Pacific Media Centre
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/png-new-media-book-offers-many-cultural-insights-young-researchers-7843 More >>
Film screening: Strange Birds in Paradise—A West Papua Story
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 11:11 am | Pacific Media Centre
While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants of West Papua, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk songs with renowned Australian rock musicologist David Bridie – Donny a recent exile to Australia, ... More >>
Samoa's Savali Blasts 'Propaganda-Promoting Journalists'
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 4:50 pm | Pacific Media Centre
The lack of balanced reporting to the point of promoting regime propaganda in the Fiji media, and the subsequent silence from media freedom groups in the region, has prompted Savali News to issue a statement. More >>
French minister calls in mediators to end Maré strife
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 1:14 pm | Pacific Media Centre
France’s Minister for Overseas Territories Marie-Luce Penchard is sending in mediators to Maré Island in New Caledonia’s north-eastern Loyalty Islands following armed indigenous clashes between rival clan factions that left 4 dead and 23 wounded at ... More >>
West Papua: Freedom protesters challenge ‘blind eye’ of West
Monday, 8 August 2011, 5:21 pm | Pacific Media Centre
Last week marked the 48th anniversary of the West Papuan struggle for independence from Indonesia. Thousands took to the streets and international lawyers are making a strong case for West Papuan self-rule. More >>
Indonesian soldier shot dead amid more West Papuan unrest
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 1:23 pm | Pacific Media Centre
An Indonesian soldier was shot dead at a military post in restive Indonesian-ruled West Papua, according to a a Jakarta newspaper report as police and troops hunted rebels blamed for a deadly ambush. More >>
At least 22 die in fresh political clashes in West Papua
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 3:13 pm | Pacific Media Centre
At least 22 people have been killed in fresh political clashes in the Indonesian-ruled Pacific territory of West Papua in the past few days, say Indonesian officials. More >>
Fiji pensioners' battle strikes new legal defining point
Monday, 1 August 2011, 2:58 pm | Pacific Media Centre
Fiji’s system of law and justice is at a historically defining point with the Burness/Shameem case against the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF). For months, FNPF has mounted an expensive and extensive public campaign (media and public meetings) to justify ... More >>
Fiji: Ratu Mara road show rolls on, message is for old guard
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 5:13 pm | Pacific Media Centre
The Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara road show rolled through Papatoetoe at the weekend with a meeting organised by the Fiji Freedom and Democracy Movement New Zealand. A garlanding of the fugitive and former lieutenant-colonel and traditional yaqona ... More >>
NZ: Detained freelance journalist freed, deported by Yemen
Monday, 11 July 2011, 4:04 pm | Pacific Media Centre
A New Zealand journalist arrested in Yemen last month has been released and deported to the United Arab Emirates, according to his family. Glen Johnson, 28, a freelance reporter based in the Middle East, was arrested on June 25 while investigating a ... More >>
Murdoch shuts down News of the World amid hacking scandal
Monday, 11 July 2011, 4:02 pm | Pacific Media Centre
In an astonishing response to a scandal engulfing his media empire, Rupert Murdoch shut down the News of the World on Thursday, Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper. More >>
Fairer Reporting Needed in Fight against Indonesian Corrupti
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 1:00 pm | Pacific Media Centre
Indonesia’s much-lauded press freedoms have not been as beneficial in exposing graft as initially hoped, media experts said on Wednesday. Muhammad Rudi Hartono, chairman of the Surabaya chapter of the Association of Independent Journalists (AJI), ... More >>
FIJI: Samoa Observer praises Tuilaepa's meeting Mara
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 2:59 pm | Pacific Media Centre
As most Pacific leaders duck for cover in the escalating war of words between fugitive Colonel Ratu Tevita Mara and his gun-totting leader Frank Bainimarama, Tuilaepa has emerged as the Pacific’s voice of reason by speaking up in support of the fugitive. More >>
SAMOA:Government appeals to NZ High Court re:Campbell Live
Friday, 17 June 2011, 4:06 pm | Pacific Media Centre
The Samoan government has this week filed an appeal with the High Court in Wellington, New Zealand, against the recent decision by New Zealand’s Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) in which alleged unfair reporting by TV3’s Campbell Live was cleared. More >>
FIJI: Analysis: An overview of the media environment
Friday, 17 June 2011, 3:02 pm | Pacific Media Centre
The media landscape has changed significantly since 2006 – for better or for worse depending on who you speak to, and who is making the observation. The first major change of course – is that we are not free – or as free as we were prior to 2006. More >>
