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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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VANUATU:Assaulted publisher raises concerns on minister case
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 2:58 pm | Pacific Media Centre
Daily Post publisher Marc Neil-Jones has written to the Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Judicial Services Commission, Ralph Regenvanu, voicing concern over the refusal of Public Prosecutor Kayleen Tavoa to step down from handling the prosecution ... More >>
Papua: Students Face ‘Subversion’ Charges over Flag-Raising
Thursday, 9 June 2011, 3:15 pm | Pacific Media Centre
Five students from the University of Papua (UNIPA) are to go on trial on a charge of "maker" - subversion, JUBI reports. More >>
Fiji Times Makes Digital Upgrade to Comply With Media Decree
Friday, 3 June 2011, 4:14 pm | Pacific Media Centre
Fiji's daily news portal, Fiji Times Online, will remain inactive until its computer system is reprogrammed to ensure bylines are automatically attached to all stories when uploaded. This was confirmed by Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley, who ... More >>
FIJI: Mara seeks united opposition to Bainimarama's regime
Friday, 3 June 2011, 4:10 pm | Pacific Media Centre
ieutenant-Colonel Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, one of four Fijian senior military officers who with Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama overthrew the democratically elected government of Fiji on 5 December 2006, has confessed that what they did was illegal. More >>
Attacked Commentators Slam 'Outlandish' Fiji Blog Smear
Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 9:34 am | Pacific Media Centre
Leading Pacific journalists and academics have condemned a popular anonymous Fiji blog for an "outlandish” smear campaign against them. More >>
Fugitive Colonel Strikes Back At Regime Leader On YouTube
Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 9:31 am | Pacific Media Centre
The fugitive Fiji army colonel who fled to Tonga last week after being charged with sedition in an alleged mutiny plot against the military backed dictatorship has struck back with two new video messages posted on YouTube. More >>
Maori Party Calls For Scrutiny Of RNZ's Axing Waatea News
Monday, 16 May 2011, 10:38 am | Pacific Media Centre
Radio New Zealand’s decision to stop broadcasting Waatea News bulletins as a cost-cutting measure needs proper scrutiny, says the Maori Party. “Maori voices are not well represented on Radio New Zealand,” said Maori Party language and culture spokesperson ... More >>
FNU Student Journalists Launch First Ever Video Production
Monday, 16 May 2011, 10:32 am | Pacific Media Centre
The sacrifice made by students of Fiji National University’s media and journalism school was rewarded today as they launched their first ever video production. More >>
Wikileaks And The Public Right To Know
Friday, 13 May 2011, 9:55 am | Pacific Media Centre
>Five months after Julian Assange’s arrest, international debate continues about the impact and ethics of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Professor Wendy Bacon of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism explains why new media outlets ... More >>
Australia’s Pacific fantasy and a diplomatic bloody nose
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 11:56 am | Pacific Media Centre
The Australian foreign policy establishment has been plunged into an agonising debate with the gradual realisation that Canberra’s long-standing hardline approach to events in Fiji has failed. More >>
Media Alliance May Help Pacific 'Move Forward', Says PIMA
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 11:49 am | Pacific Media Centre
The formation of an alliance among some Pacific media networks is a chance for the region to ‘move forward’ in forming networks and relationships, says Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) chair Iulia Leilua. More >>
McCully Complaint Against SST Story On Fiji Upheld
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 11:46 am | Pacific Media Centre
The New Zealand Press Council has ruled against the Sunday Star-Times newspaper for an article on Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama which was deemed "grossly inflated". More >>
Mob Storms Newspaper Office, Three Reporters Injured
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 10:44 am | Pacific Media Centre
The office of the daily newspaper The Orbit in Medan, North Sumatra, was attacked on 3 May 2011 by employees of a company named in the paper's report as sponsoring gambling, media reports said. Three reporters were injured and a still undetermined ... More >>
Vanuatu Publisher 'Famous' In Googling - For Being Assaulted
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 9:56 am | Pacific Media Centre
When the son of Vanuatu publisher Marc Neil-Jones was surfing the internet one day, he asked if his father was only famous for getting assaulted. When he googled “Neil-Jones assault", there were at least 197,000 pages. More >>
Assaults, threats and jail all in a day’s work in Vanuatu
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 10:30 am | Pacific Media Centre
I have spent 29 years in the media industry in Melanesia in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu and have had first hand experience on difficulties trying to pioneer freedom of press in Vanuatu which has only had independent media since the mid 1990s, as ... More >>
World Press Freedom Day opinion: Three Perspectives In Fiji
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 9:46 am | Pacific Media Centre
Two reputable NGOs in Fiji - ECREA and the CCF - made press statements on the UN World Press Freedom Day - neither of which was published in the local media, but the media did publish a statement by the Acting Deputy Permanent Secretary of Information, ... More >>
Clarence House Blocks Australian Satire Of Wedding
Monday, 2 May 2011, 9:33 am | Pacific Media Centre
PARIS (Reporters sans frontières/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders deplores the actions of the BBC and the Associated Press Television News (APTN) in censoring satirical coverage of Friday's royal wedding in London by The Chaser, an ... More >>
Papuan lawmaker wants police chief fired for shooting deaths
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 9:23 am | Pacific Media Centre
A Papuan legislator has called for the firing of the provincial police chief following two people being shot dead in Dogyai district in Indonesian-ruled West Papua this week. More >>
PNG Post-Courier: PNG Land Reform Is A Sham
Monday, 18 April 2011, 10:35 am | Pacific Media Centre
PORT MORESBY (Post-Courier/Pacific Media Watch): Is the present government involved in a conspiracy to take over all customary land in Papua New Guinea? More >>
Fiji Will Attend World Cup Despite Sanctions Threat - IRB
Monday, 18 April 2011, 10:28 am | Pacific Media Centre
WELLINGTON (SBS Television/ReutersPacific Media Watch): Fiji are expected to take their place at the World Cup in New Zealand later this year, International Rugby Board (IRB) chief executive Mike Miller has said, despite local media reports of ... More >>
