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PMW: Track Record As Pacific Media and Protest Case Study
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 2:31 pm | Pacific Media Watch
LONDON ( University of Westminster News / Pacific Media Watch ): A New Zealand-based media freedom monitoring and advocacy agency has played a significant independent role in the Pacific region for almost two decades, a global media and protest conference ... More >>
Turkey's ‘Woman In Red’, Protest and the Pacific Media
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 2:43 pm | Pacific Media Watch
LONDON ( Cafe Pacific / Pacific Media Watch ): The so-called “woman in red” became a reluctant icon of a people’s revolt in Turkey this month. More >>
New PJR Challenges Pacific Censorship, Political ‘Shackles'
Monday, 27 May 2013, 1:59 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND ( Pacific Media Centre / Pacific Media Watch ): Fiji’s brand of post-coup media censorship and other Pacific political curbs are challenged in the latest Pacific Journalism Review published today. More >>
NZ: AUT new home for Rialto 48Hours filmmaking contest
Sunday, 26 May 2013, 1:34 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Rialto Channel 48Hours filmmaking contest is on, and the Auckland leg of the national New Zealand competition is based AUT University's new Sir Paul Reeves Building communications precinct. More >>
NZ: Māori TV targets Hawke's Bay for regional strategy
Friday, 24 May 2013, 11:50 am | Pacific Media Watch
An AUT journalism graduate working for Māori Television says it is "awesome" the broadcaster is sending her back home to Hawkes Bay to broadcast local stories. Aroha Treacher, who reports for the station's nightly te reo news programme, Te Kāea, ... More >>
Audio: Pacific Trade, Sustainable Fishing & West Papua
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:32 pm | Pacific Media Watch
WELLINGTON ( Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch ): Economic trade, sustainable fishing and a more responsive approach to the West Papua conflict were issues raised by New Zealand delegates at a recent Pacific forum. More >>
Fiji: Professor Narsey 'Gagged' Over Media Freedom Speech
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 2:44 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch ): A former University of the South Pacific professor says he was stopped from addressing journalism students on World Press Freedom Day earlier this month. More >>
PNG: Defence Force Investigates Shooting of Young W Papuan
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 1:12 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY ( PNG Post-Courier / Pacific Media Watch ): A 19-year-old man is receiving treatment for gunshot wounds after about five Papua New Guinea soldiers allegedly opened fire on him and two other West Papuans. More >>
Disturbing trends for journalists’ protection
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 1:38 pm | Pacific Media Watch
A leading journalism academic has voiced concern at the high levels of digital surveillance facing journalists today and has urged journalists to adopt a new ethical model of reporting for social good. More >>
KIRIBATI: 'Bring back TV in Kiribati' plea by journalists
Monday, 29 April 2013, 5:27 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Journalists in Kiribati have called on the government to bring back Kiribati TV. Editors of Uekera and Newstar newspapers said government must do something about the only television for the country. More >>
FIJI: Bainimarama on talk-back radio to promote constitution
Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 12:18 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama will over the next couple of days feature on several talkback radio shows to answer questions about the controversial new Fijian draft constitution. In a press release on Monday it was announced that the deadline ... More >>
Social advocate Father Barr relieved after regime backs down
Sunday, 27 January 2013, 11:55 am | Pacific Media Watch
Social justice advocate Father Kevin Barr says he is relieved after the Fiji government withdrew an order to have him removed from the country. More >>
VANUATU: FM107 believes in talking - not closing down
Wednesday, 16 January 2013, 10:41 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT VILA ( Vanuatu Independent / Pacific Media Watch ): Radio FM107 has acknowledged receiving a letter signed by Prime Minister Sato Kilman to “cease operations” and confirms the matter is now in the hands of its lawyers. The lawyers have advised ... More >>
O'Neill blasts 'colonial mentality' over mine media report
Wednesday, 16 January 2013, 10:02 am | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY ( PNG Post-Courier / Pacific Media Watch ): Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has attacked "false and misleading claims" by a mining company as reported in the Australian Financial Review , the PNG Post-Courier reports. More >>
USP Graduate To Present Gender Media Coverage In Fiji
Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 2:19 pm | Pacific Media Watch
USP Graduate To Present Gender Media Coverage In Fiji Elections Findings http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pmc-blog/usp-graduate-present-gender-media-coverage-fiji-election-findings More >>
Registration 'Blows Away' Journalist
Monday, 12 November 2012, 5:31 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch ): The enthusiasm shown among locals to vote in the 2014 Fiji General Elections has "blown away" award winning US journalist Lea Thompson. More >>
Fiji Media Workers Body Formed
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 2:44 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA ( The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch ): Journalists have always been the voice of the people. More >>
'Right To Know' Just an Ideal in the Cooks
Sunday, 30 September 2012, 12:03 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The “right to know” is something media relish talking about, as it forms the basis of the fourth estate. Often people forget that as taxpayers, they should be talking about it, too. More >>
Repúblika Manifesto Pledges To 'Emerge From Media Shadows'
Friday, 14 September 2012, 5:38 pm | Pacific Media Watch
My first political memory is of the middle of 1987, as a six-year-old engulfed in the aftermath of the Pacific’s first coup d’état carried out by a dashing (at the time) Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka. More >>
Fiji Sun Wins Panpa Award for PM's Flood Appeal
Friday, 14 September 2012, 5:34 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Fiji Sun's strong commitment to helping the Prime Minister’s Flood Relief Appeal has helped win the newspaper a major regional media award. The Fiji Sun took an unprecedented three awards at PANPA, the biggest newspaper competition for Southeast Asia, Australia, ... More >>
