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USP academic warns media officers over 'balance'
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 10:36 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch ): Journalism academic Professor Mark Edge has cautioned government media liaison officers on developing media trends and their impact. More >>
Aussie Media Groups to Boycott World Cup
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:37 am | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY ( Stuff.co.nz Rugby Heaven/Pacific Media Watch ): In an unprecedented move, Australia's leading news media organisations have informed the International Rugby Board that they will not be seeking accreditation to cover the World Cup in New Zealand, ... More >>
Mobile Phones in Png Rural Villages 'Double-Edged Sword'
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:26 am | Pacific Media Watch
Mobile Phones in Png Rural Villages 'Double-Edged Sword', Says Researcher. A study by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher Amanda Watson has explored the way new mobile technology, in areas which did not have landline, internet or ... More >>
Govt Hits Out at International Media Reports
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 3:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Fiji government has hit out at international media reports on the death of a New Zealand woman in the country as inaccurate. Permanent Secretary Sharon Smith-Johns said a recent report by New Zealand journalist Michael Field was "grossly inaccurate, ... More >>
Rebuilding Public Trust In Media and Journalism
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 2:20 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Can the Australian media really self-regulate successfully? It's worth looking to Norway to see how the media there cleaned up their act without legislation, writes Johan Lidberg The fallout from the phone hacking scandal engulfing the British arm ... More >>
Media Alliance Mourns Loss of Abc News Crew
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 1:54 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (MEAA/Pacific Media Watch): The Media Alliance is saddened to learn of the feared deaths of three ABC greats: senior journalist Paul Lockyer, cameraman John Bean and pilot Gary Ticehurst. Police are expected to confirm in the next few days ... More >>
Te Waha Nui's Student Journalism Sister is Reborn
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10:41 am | Pacific Media Watch
Launched yesterday, the new-look Te Waha Nui - published by the AUT University journalism students - is a more dynamic, interactive and multimedia site than its predecessors, says editor and postgraduate journalism student Alexander Winkler. More >>
Media Integral in NCD Fight
Thursday, 11 August 2011, 12:21 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The media is an integral part of health promotion, says Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) healthy Pacific lifestyles section head Dr Viliami Puloka. Dr Puloka said non-communicable diseases (NCDs) had no respect for the size of an island, skin ... More >>
Need A Council Story? Just Make It Up
Thursday, 11 August 2011, 12:20 pm | Pacific Media Watch
It seemed like a relatively straightforward task for Newbytes trainee journalist Abanob Saad, but it resulted in extraordinary behaviour from some of Brisbane City Council’s “media advisors”. Saad’s job was to research and write a news story ... More >>
Hacking a Litmus Test for Australian Independent Journalism
Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 11:40 am | Pacific Media Watch
Writing about the boss is a delicate proposition for journalists. Go in too hard and your job could be on the line; too soft and readers quickly come to suspect whose side you’re on. More >>
One Confirmed Dead in Fiji Times Paper Van Accident
Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 11:34 am | Pacific Media Watch
A passenger has died and two others have been admitted to Nadi hospital in western Fiji after a Fiji Times newspaper van veered off the road and overturned at Nalovo, outside Nadi, today. More >>
Vanuatu Journalists Fear Ongoing Threats from Political Lead
Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 11:33 am | Pacific Media Watch
Journalists at Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation are raising concerns about ongoing political intimidation in the wake of threats of legal action by the Minister of ni-Vanuatu Business, Radio NZ International reports. More >>
KFC Exits Fiji after Colonel's Secret Recipe Is Quarantined
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 2:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Colonel Sanders appears to have met his match in Fiji, with KFC closing all three of its outlets after the food-safety agency slapped the restaurant chain's top-secret herbs and spices blend in quarantine. More >>
Fiji Pensioners Launch Website to Inform Public on Cutbacks
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 3:45 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Fiji's pensioners launched a website today to make information available about the government's intention to cut their superannuation payments by two thirds. The website can be accessed at fijipensioners.com or savefijipensions.com. More >>
Times to go up by 10c
Monday, 1 August 2011, 2:19 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The cover price of The Fiji Times will increase by 10c from Monday, August 1. The new price of The Fiji Times (Monday to Friday) will be 90c. The Saturday edition will be $1. The price of The Sunday Times will be 90c from August 7. The prices apply ... More >>
Pacific Paper Founded With No Press 'But Tons of Vision'
Monday, 1 August 2011, 2:17 pm | Pacific Media Watch
apua New Guinea’s weekly Tok Pisin newspaper Wantok has been described as the longest surviving vernacular publishing icon in the South Pacific since its humble beginnings in 1969. Although not the first to be published in Tok Pisin, this newspaper has ... More >>
Philippines: Military Involvement in Activists' Murders
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 4:56 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Philippine government's failure to investigate and prosecute extrajudicial killings fuels further military abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government should ensure that officials vigorously investigate serious human ... More >>
NZ Group Plans Auckland Fiji 'Democracy' Rally at World Cup
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 4:54 pm | Pacific Media Watch
A pro-democracy Fijian group is threatening to protest in Auckland just as the Rugby World Cup begins in New Zealand. About 250 people - predominantly Fijians - gathered in Papatoetoe last night for a rally organised by the Fiji Democracy and Freedom ... More >>
Papua: Acting PM Accuses Murdoch Daily of Trying to Oust Him
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 4:48 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has come under fire from one of the furthest flung corners of his media empire this week, with Papua New Guinea’s acting prime minister accusing one of the media baron’s papers of trying to oust him, reports Agence ... More >>
Former Fiji Army Colonel Wants Further Sanctions on Regime
Friday, 22 July 2011, 12:54 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Former Fiji army colonel Ratu Tevita Mara says he has told New Zealand foreign affairs officials there is a need for new sanctions against Fiji’s interim regime. Mara is in New Zealand for five days of meetings with Fiji pro-democracy groups and has ... More >>
