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Australia: Journalists and Academics Call for Collaboration
Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 11:43 am | Pacific Media Watch
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/australia-investigative-journalists-academics-call-collaboration-7620 More >>
Fiji: A Look At Censorship
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 12:06 pm | Pacific Media Watch
As Pacific correspondent Sean Dorney reports, those who oppose Bainimarama are not allowed any media coverage in Fiji. SD: If you lived in Fiji and your only source of information was a single local national newspaper, the Fiji Sun , you would soon ... More >>
Harawira: On Maori Profile and West Papuan Progress at PIF
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 12:00 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Harawira Condemns Lack Of Maori Profile - Welcomes West Papuan Progress. Outspoken MP and long time Pacific issues advocate Hone Harawira has condemned the lack of Maori representation at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum – but is encouraged ... More >>
McCully Plays Down Fiji, West Papua Issues
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 11:53 am | Pacific Media Watch
Broadcaster Hosts Eid-In-The-Park Celebration
Monday, 5 September 2011, 11:49 am | Pacific Media Watch
An inaugural Eid-in-the-Park celebration yesterday by the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation was meant to allow members of other religions to understand and enjoy the meaning of Eid, says Veena Bhatanagar, programmes director of FBC's Radio Fiji 2. More >>
Tailor-Made for Fiji
Monday, 5 September 2011, 11:47 am | Pacific Media Watch
Fiji has to tailor its regulations according to what it needs. This statement, which I made recently in a presentation to the quarterly meeting of media liaison officers from the Ministry of Information, was reported in The Fiji Times without context, ... More >>
Leave Fiji Ruggers Alone, Tikoitoga Urges NZ Media
Friday, 2 September 2011, 11:13 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation News/Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand media are targeting Fiji's rugby players with questions that could distract them from the Rugby World Cup, says Fiji Rugby Union chairman Colonel Mosese Tikoitoga. More >>
AUT Asia-Pacific Journalism students to cover special Forum
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 1:52 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Nine postgraduate Asia-Pacific Journalism students have been accredited to cover the South Pacific Forum leaders summit in Auckland and related civil society issue conferences next week. More >>
PIF Should Grant Observer Status to Territory of West Papua
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 12:12 pm | Pacific Media Watch
At the 42nd Meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to be held in Auckland next week, AWPA calls on the PIF leaders to grant observer status to genuine representatives of the West Papuan people who are struggling for their right to self determination. More >>
Pacific Forum Leaders Told They Cannot Ignore Papua Conflict
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 11:44 am | Pacific Media Watch
The Pacific Islands Forum is being told it must speak out about the ongoing instability in the Indonesian region of Papua. More >>
Vanuatu Cabinet Minister Trying To Intimidate Media Again
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 9:59 am | Pacific Media Watch
The Media Association of Vanuatu says the Minister of ni-Vanuatu Business, Pastor Don Ken, is again trying to intimidate journalists for reporting on his alleged public drunkenness, Radio NZI reports. More >>
PNG: Provincial Governor sues The National for Defamation
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 9:58 am | Pacific Media Watch
Southern Highlands Governor Anderson Agiru has given notice that he is suing The National newspaper in Papua New Guinea and his former administrator William Powi for defamation. More >>
SHP Governor Sues Newspaper
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 9:57 am | Pacific Media Watch
Southern Highlands Governor Anderson Agiru has given notice that he is suing The National newspaper in Papua New Guinea and his former administrator William Powi for defamation. More >>
Teams Arrive As RWC Gathers Steam
Monday, 29 August 2011, 3:00 pm | Pacific Media Watch
After months of anticipation and preparation in New Zealand, the party is finally set to start. It's just 11 days until the first ball is kicked in the Rugby World Cup and today the first team, Fiji - including controversial player Leone Nakarawa ... More >>
US Cables Reveal Brutality of Fijian Regime
Monday, 29 August 2011, 11:56 am | Pacific Media Watch
Some quiet acts of defiance against Fiji's military regime occurred last week. A large number of spray-painted anti-government slogans appeared overnight on walls around the capital, Suva. More >>
Professor Warns Media Officers
Monday, 29 August 2011, 11:53 am | Pacific Media Watch
Journalism academic Professor Mark Edge has cautioned government media liaison officers on developing media trends and their impact. Professor Edge, head of the journalism division of the University of the South Pacific's School of Language, Arts and Media ... More >>
Photojournalist Launches New Rainbow Warrior Mon Amour Book
Monday, 29 August 2011, 11:36 am | Pacific Media Watch
As the global environmental group Greenpeace prepares to mark four decades of campaigning for a greener planet next month, a French photojournalist who has been bearing witness for the past 30 years has launched a book about the crusade. More >>
Fiji Sun Goes with Fuji - and Digital Printing up Next
Monday, 29 August 2011, 11:17 am | Pacific Media Watch
Computer-to-plate technology is about to hit Fiji. Tabloid daily the Fiji Sun will become the first newspaper in the country to move to the technology, deploying a new Fuji semi-auto system next month to replace its imagesetter equipment. More >>
'Fierce' NZPA News Agency Showdown Looms
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 10:45 am | Pacific Media Watch
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/nz-fierce-nzpa-news-agency-showdown-looms-7590 More >>
Photojournalist Launches New 'Rainbow Warrior Book
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 10:40 am | Pacific Media Watch
PARIS ( Glénat Books/Pacific Media Watch ): As the global environmental group Greenpeace prepares to mark four decades of campaigning for a greener planet next month, a French photojournalist who has been bearing witness for the past 30 years has launched a ... More >>
