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TONGA: PM 'Akilisi Pohiva names ex-political friend then foe as media adviser

PNG: 37 deaths in Southern Highlands, 16 in Hela as PNG relief efforts go on

NZ: Gender and diversity research at AUT turns 10

REGION: NZ Foreign Minister questions China's influence in the Pacific

PNG: Morobe Governor's staff fined, set free over assault on journalist

AUSTRALIA: Walkley winner Monica Attard joins UTS as journalism head

Special Reports

Climate change media tools helpful, but more Pacific indigenous perspectives needed

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

CLIMATE: Sylvia Frain: Cyclone Gita interrupted the timely and relevant second Pacific Ocean Climate Change Conference...

Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific - an introduction

Friday, December 1, 2017

INTRODUCTION: David Robie. 10th Anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre, 30 November 2017

PMC focuses on Asia-Pacific 'journalism under duress' for 10th birthday event

Monday, November 20, 2017

PUBLICATION: The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom...

Terror in Indonesia – the threat posed by returning Islamic State fighters

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

BACKGROUNDER: Jewel Topsfield reports from Jakarta. More than 500 Indonesian IS supporters are still...

AUDIO: Independent news coverage shrinks as NZ Newswire shuts down

Sunday, February 18, 2018

By Colin Peacock WELLINGTON (RNZ Mediawatch/Pacific Media Watch): The closure of Australian-owned news agency New...

VIDEO: West Papua one step closer to MSG membership, says Wenda

Saturday, February 17, 2018

By Meriba Tulo PORT MORESBY (EMTV News/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): West Papua’s application to...

Research

Fanohge Famalåo’an & Fan’tachu Fama’lauan: Women Rising Indigenous Resistance to Militarization in the Marianas Archipelago

Friday, December 15, 2017

RESEARCH: Sylvia C. Frain: This project examines how Indigenous women nonviolently resist the invisible and visible...

Indonesian double standards over press freedom endanger safety of Papuan journalists

Friday, November 24, 2017

RESEARCH: David Robie: It was ironical that the most evocative demonstration of freedom of the press in Indonesia since...

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 Journalism projects and internships 2018

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The Pacific Media Centre is running several Asia-Pacific projects again this year and along with Asia Pacific Journalism (Semester 2) we have a new...

PMC collaboration media project with NZ Institute for Pacific Research

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Pacific Media Centre embarked on a collaboration project with the NZ Institute for Pacific Research in 2017 with Pasifika student journalists...

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...

7 March 2018

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TONGA: PM 'Akilisi Pohiva names ex-political friend then foe as media adviser

Events

'Safe food' governance after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster

Tue, 13/03/2018 - 4:30pm - 6:00pm

PMC SEMINAR: Enacting ‘safe food’ through ruling discourse in the aftermath of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. Presented by doctoral candidate Karly Burch