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NZ: Pacific Media Watch editors now on leave
QUT’s Pacific student journo news bureau team heading for Auckland
AUDIO: RNZ's Sunday talks to David Robie on Pacific human rights
Utopia: The inside story on political blame-shifting and official national indifference
AUDIO: Media freedom 'dire' in Pacific, says author of new human rights book
PACIFIC JOURNALISM REVIEW: 20th Anniversary Conference and Celebration

Special Reports

Secret histories of the Pacific: Media coverage of the region
Friday, June 13, 2014
Alison McCulloch profiles Pacific Media Centre director David Robie, his new book and his lifetime commitment to media...
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Utopia: The inside story on political blame-shifting and official national indifference
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
John Pilger’s latest film, Utopia, recently aired on SBS television. New Matilda owner/editor Chris Graham...
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Why the rich and powerful can't stand public broadcasters
Monday, May 26, 2014
Antony Loewenstein: ANALYSIS: Public broadcasting is under attack for elitism and bias in the UK, US and Australia. But...
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Behind Timor-Leste’s silence instead of outrage over Prabowo’s candidacy
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Maj Nygaard Christensen and Angie Bexley: ANALYSIS: So far, the Indonesian presidential election campaign appears to...
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Multimedia

VIDEO: Stephenson profiles jihadist group behind Iraqi terror on TVNZ
Monday, June 16, 2014
AUCKLAND (TVNZ Breakfast / Pacific Media Watch): Independent investigative journalist Jon Stephenson today profiled...
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AUDIO: RNZ's Sunday talks to David Robie on Pacific human rights
Sunday, June 15, 2014
AUCKLAND (Radio New Zealand Sunday / Pacific Media Watch): Global investigative journalist John Pilger has described...
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Research

Good and bad aid: The rise and fall of two South Pacific universities
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Scott MacWilliam: RESEARCH: The establishment and subsequent operations of the two most important universities in the...
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UNESCO NZ 2014: 'No-one died covering celebrity news'
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Dr Gavin Ellis RESEARCH: Let me begin by putting New Zealand domestic journalism in context. None of the 16 journalists...
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Photo Galleries

PMC director's sabbatical assignment in France, Scandinavia 2013
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 00:06
Pacific Media Centre director professor David Robie travelled to Scandinavia in October 2013 during his global sabbatical. Along with Del Abcede, he...
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PMC director's sabbatical assignment in Timor-Leste 2013
Sunday, January 5, 2014 - 19:15
Pacific Media Centre director professor David Robie worked with La'o Hamutuk (Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis) as a...
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Projects

The life and times over 20 years with Pacific Journalism Review mini doco
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Sasya Wreksono As third year Communications students majoring in Television and Screen Production here at AUT University, we were tasked to...
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IJI - Reporting Europe and the Asia-Pacific project
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Inclusive Journalism Initiative (IJI) is a mobility project between Auckland University of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand), the University of...
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Cafe Pacific

Café Pacific: Timor-Leste raises bar in media suppression with new law
Monday, June 2, 2014
David Robie: OPINION: JOURNALISTS and civil society critical of the flawed Fiji mediascape in the lead-up to the first post-coup general election in...
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Café Pacific: MIDA’s chair finds Fiji TV guilty of ‘hate speech’ and blasts bloggers
Friday, April 4, 2014
David Robie: OPINION: SO THERE we have it. Fiji’s Media Industry Development Authority chairperson Ashwin Raj is going to stamp out all hate...
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Events

Pacific Journalism Review 20th Anniversary Asia-Pacific conference
Thu, 27/11/2014 - 8:30am - Sat, 29/11/2014 - 12:00pm
PACIFIC JOURNALISM REVIEW 20th Anniversary Conference and Celebration Theme: Political journalism in the Asia-Pacific region Programme includes: - Investigative journalism - Documentary films - Media industry panels - PJR celebration
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Pacific Media Watch

NZ: Pacific Media Watch editors now on leave
Friday, June 20, 2014
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Media Centre's Pacific Media Watch freedom project editors are currently on leave and will be back...
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GLOBAL: One al-Jazeera journalist released from Egyptian jail
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
CAIRO (Pacific Media Watch / The Guardian): One of the four al-Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt for covering uprisings has been released from...
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PNG: Profiling the press from colonial days to independence
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): A new book published in New Zealand has taken a look at the changing function of the media in...
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Niusblog

QUT’s Pacific student journo news bureau team heading for Auckland
Friday, June 20, 2014
Journalism students from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia are embarking on a reporting tour next week, looking to help...
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The Life of Pacific Journalism Review - a doco sneak preview
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Anna Majavu A new mini-documentary which celebrates 20 years of Pacific Journalism Review is set to premiere at the PJR’s 20th anniversary...
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Pacific Scoop

Pacific Scoop: Confusion reigns over Timor-Leste’s controversial media law
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Special report by Shannon Gillies in Dili: Confusion reigns over a controversial media law adopted by Parliament but yet to be promulgated in the...
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Pacific Scoop: Democrats win highest ballot for Papua in Indonesian elections
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Nethy Dharma Somba  in Jayapura: The Democratic Party garnered the most votes for the House of Representatives in Papua with a total of 700,150...
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Publications

Pacific Journalism Monograph No 3: Kiribati media. science and politics
Monday, June 16, 2014
Although the Pacific nation of Kiribati has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries to the impact of climate change, little is...
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Toktok No 28 / Winter 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
A new mini-documentary which celebrates 20 years of Pacific Journalism Review is set to premiere at the PJR’s 20th anniversary conference and...
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