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Café Pacific: Media coverage of war atrocities opens debate on INFOCORE research

NZ: Editors seek rethink on media merger plan rejection over plurality

NZ: ‘Atenisi’s Horowitz at PMC as visiting Pacific research fellow

BURMA: Press law concerns after media chiefs detained

FIJI: Broadcaster formally apologises to FBC

BURMA: ‘Let media in if there is nothing to hide’, says CPJ

Special Reports

Fiji's TC Winston - how the media fared covering 'worst ever' Pacific cyclone

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Cyclone Winston is considered to be the deadliest cyclone to hit the South Pacific region. The Australian tropical...

Dana Wensley: Defend freedom of speech or watch it disappear

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Dana Wensley OPINION: There are as many ways to control the media as there are styles of government. The continuing ban...

Bougainville: Building a sustainable economic future - 'the way forward'

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

John L. Momis: SPEECH: An edited presentation by the Bougainville governor to the Australia Papua New Guinea Business...

Why are journalists in the Philippines dying? Truth a dangerous profession

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Red Batario: BACKGROUNDER: After a brutal fortnight for journalists in the Philippines last year, in which three...

VIDEO: 'Nanogirl' calls for more female Pacific and Māori techno youth

Monday, June 13, 2016

AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Providing pathways to better opportunities for Pacific youth,...

AUDIO: TVNZ's Barbara Dreaver fires back at Fiji PM's 'ridiculous claims'

Sunday, June 12, 2016

AUCKLAND (TVNZ/ RNZ Mediawatch/ Pacifiic Media Watch): As TVNZ's news boss calls for the ban on Barbara Dreaver...

Research

After the Arab Spring: An analysis of the future of journalism in the Middle East

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Journalism in the Middle East has long suffered from the effect of autocratic and corrupt political regimes, which...

From Uni Tavur to Asia Pacific Report: Case studies in campus-based social justice media

Saturday, August 13, 2016

David Robie RESEARCH: For two decades, this paper presenter has been an initiator of a series of independent newspapers...

PMC director's sabbatical assignment in France, Scandinavia 2013

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 01:06

Pacific Media Centre director professor David Robie travelled to Scandinavia in October 2013 during his global sabbatical. Along with Del Abcede, he...

PMC director's sabbatical assignment in Timor-Leste 2013

Sunday, January 5, 2014 - 20:15

Pacific Media Centre director professor David Robie worked with La'o Hamutuk (Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis) as a...

Asia Pacific Report - a new digital initiative on regional journalism

Thursday, December 10, 2015

AsiaPacificReport.nz is a joint non-profit educational-industry venture between Multimedia Investments Ltd (Milnz.co.nz) and AUT’s Pacific...

VIDEO: The PMC Project - a short documentary by Alistar Kata

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

In 2009, a short video was made by AUT television students John Pulu and Sophie Johnson about the work of the Pacific Media Centre. Now a new...

Café Pacific: Media coverage of war atrocities opens debate on INFOCORE research

Sunday, November 27, 2016

By Elena Cavalione of Euronews IN A world torn apart by conflicts old and new, the issue of the media’s role seems to have growing...

Café Pacific: The ‘nuclear free’ Vanuatu girl with the enchanting smile

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

By DAVID ROBIE on Aneityum, Vanuatu She had the most enchanting smile, even though she had lost her baby teeth. Her toothless grin turned...

1 December 2016

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Café Pacific: Media coverage of war atrocities opens debate on INFOCORE research

Events

West Papua's Morning Star flag raising at PMC on December 1

Thu, 01/12/2016 - 12:00pm - 12:30pm

WEST PAPUA INDEPENDENCE DAY 1 December 2016 Please join us in solidarity at the memorial flag-raising at 12 noon on Thursday, 1 December, in the Pacific Media Centre, Level 10, in the Sir Paul Reeves Building, Auckland University of Technology, Wellesley Street. Organised by Asia-Pacific Human Rights Coalition (APHRC) and Pax Christi In association with the Pacific Media Centre