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Journalism Schools Stage Combined Hui
Monday, 3 May 2004, 10:12 am | Pacific Media Watch
ROTORUA, NZ (AUT Journalism/Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand's Maori journalism school and the country's largest media course have combined for a two-day hui (workshop) at the Waiariki Institute of Technology's Tangatarua marae. More >>
Graduation Day Reunion A Cause For Celebration
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 8:48 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): It was an occasion to remember for three University of the South Pacific journalism students and their former lecturer when they graduated together during Friday¹s ceremony in Fiji. More >>
Soldier Athlete Attacks Papuan Journalist
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:15 pm | Pacific Media Watch
JAYAPURA, Papua (JP Online/Pacific Media Watch): Dozens of journalists here on Friday condemned an attack on fellow reporter Irwanto by a national athlete in Indonesia's Papua province, and urged the attacker to be dealt with firmly. More >>
Cook Is PM Announces Plans To Create Media Council
Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 8:24 am | Pacific Media Watch
AVARUA, Rarotonga (RA News Online/Pacific Media Watch): Prime Minister Robert Woonton says he has asked Sir John Jeffries, chairman of New Zealand's Press Council, to help establish a similar council in the Cook Islands. More >>
USP Journalism's Coming Of Age
Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 8:17 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): The University of the South Pacific's regional journalism programme marks its 10th anniversary this year. More >>
Life On The Run In The Jungles Of Bougainville
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 9:06 am | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY (Reuters/Pacific Media Watch): Josephine Sirivi spent at least 10 years on the run in the jungles of Bougainville, hunted by Papua New Guinea soldiers because her husband was chief of the rebel forces on the South Pacific island. More >>
Call For 'Stand Alone' Journalism Course At USP
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 9:05 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): The University of the South Pacific's former journalism coordinator, Dev Nadkarni, says journalism should be a stand-alone programme and not part of the Department of Literature and Language. More >>
The School Of Hard Knocks
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 11:05 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): They have covered coups, military insurrections and faced off against armed and dangerous thugs. Their lives have been threatened more than once. Their experiences show that practising journalism in the ³idyllic² ... More >>
Indigenous Language Tv Station Mooted
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 11:04 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): A Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBCL) initiative to set up a Fijian language television station will not only carry programmes in Fijian but also the languages of Rotuma and Rabi islanders. More >>
Bougainville Author Tells Of War Women's Survival
Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 8:29 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Peace advocate Josephine Sirivi today talked of the personal stories of Bougainville's women survivors during a decade of civil war that inspired her into publishing a new book about the conflict. More >>
Broader Coverage On Aceh Demanded
Monday, 5 April 2004, 9:30 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (Jakarta Post Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Indonesian government's restrictions on press coverage of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam may lead to international intervention in the province on suspicions of human rights abuses, which could subsequently result ... More >>
USP journalism head backs university degrees
Tuesday, 30 March 2004, 8:21 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Outgoing journalism coordinator Dev Nadkarni has highlighted the importance of academic qualifications for journalists while calling on the University of the South Pacific to improve journalism training ... More >>
Concerns Over Media Interference Ahead Of Election
Monday, 29 March 2004, 8:59 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (Radio Australia/Pacific Media Watch): As Indonesians prepare for general elections next month, there are allegations that as election fever heats up, political parties have resorted to taking over the media to control it. More >>
NZ: Ruia Mai scoops top honours at awards
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 8:53 am | Pacific Media Watch
ROTORUA (Whakaruruhau/Pacific Media Watch): National Maori radio service Ruia Mai has scooped top honours at the first ever Maori Media Awards. More >>
Timor Leste: New Media For A New Country
Monday, 22 March 2004, 10:20 am | Pacific Media Watch
DILI (KNIGHTline International/Pacific Media Watch): Whenever I get discouraged with the slow pace of media development in East Timor, I take a moment to reflect on the remarkable determination of the journalists with whom I work. Joanico do Amaral, ... More >>
Press Freedom Under Threat In Indonesia
Monday, 22 March 2004, 10:18 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (TAPOL/Pacific Media Watch): Press freedom in Indonesia is coming under sustained attack from big business and the courts with the encouragement of Megawati Sukarnoputri's government. A number of lawsuits for libel have been filed against publications in ... More >>
Rulings Support Sect's Harassment Of Journalist
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 8:22 am | Pacific Media Watch
PARIS (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) today condemned intimidation and harassment of Australian freelance journalist John Macgregor by the Elan Vital sect and a series of rulings by the Queensland Supreme ... More >>
Tonga Kingdom Faces Media Laws Legal Challenge
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 9:15 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (North & South/Pacific Media Watch): In the wake of the Tongan government denying operating licences to dissenting publications, a New Zealand magazine journalist has warned that the Pacific kingdom will soon face an "extraordinary" lawsuit ... More >>
Opinion - Politicians 'want media on leash'
Monday, 15 March 2004, 9:02 am | Pacific Media Watch
Cook Is (Cook Islands News/Pacific Media Watch): Get ready to take the "Raro" off Rarotonga if Norman George¹s Democratic Party government gets its way over imposing controls on the media. Rarotonga media law will end up looking like Tonga media law ... More >>
COOK IS: Journalist warns of media crisis
Friday, 12 March 2004, 8:55 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Café Pacific/Pacific Media Watch): Cook Islands freelance journalist Jason Brown has described the country's news industry as being in crisis but says the timing of the government media review should be viewed with suspicion. More >>
