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Estonia’s high price of energy independence –‘we have lost our wetlands, our...
Estonia may lie a continent and an ocean away from the two biggest polluters in the world – China and the United States – but the nation cannot lay claim to climate innocence. Having mined oil shale...
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Tonga’s Democracy Coalition faces uncertain future, says academic
By Kendall Hutt The future of Tonga’s Democracy Coalition remains uncertain as next year’s election looms, a Nuku’alofa-based educator has concluded in a public seminar in Auckland last night. Dr...
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Pacific ‘cyberbullying’, PNG student protests, ‘free’ media featured in PJR
A mini-documentary about 20 years of publication of the research journal Pacific Journalism Review, produced by AUT University screen production and television student Sasya Wreksono to mark the...
View ArticleChasing media freedom story ‘opened passion’ for new PMW editor
Award-winning Auckland University of Technology graduate journalist Kendall Hutt has been appointed contributing editor for the Pacific Media Watch freedom project for 2017. Hutt says she is extremely...
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Pacific student journalists passionate about reporting climate change
University of the South Pacific student journalists talk about climate change and their daily lives — and the future. Video: Julie Cleaver/Kendall Hutt/PMC By Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in Suva...
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Papuan street art, freedom seminar pose challenge at Jakarta’s WPFD2017
Photographs by David Robie and Bernard Agapa in Jakarta The World Press Freedom Day organisers, UNESCO and the Indonesian Press Council, marginalised the highly sensitive issue of West Papuan media and...
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Benny Wenda — advocating for a Free West Papua
Photographs by Del Abcede West Papuan parliamentarian in exile and human rights advocate Benny Wenda spoke to about 80 students, staff and activists at Auckland University of Technology last night. He...
View ArticleSouthern Cross: PNG election security, Fiji coups, Manus Island shooting, and...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie speaks to Radio 95bFM’s The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson about security operations for the Papua New Guinea general...
View ArticleSouthern Cross: Media climate study, free speech in Indonesia and Timor-Leste...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk Pacific Media Centre’s Kendall Hutt speaks with host of Radio 95bFM’s The Wire Amanda Jane Robinson about a study on how journalists cover climate change, free speech in...
View ArticlePMW editor talks of concerns over martial law in southern Philippines
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch’s Kendall Hutt spoke with 95bFM’s The Wire host Tess Barnett today about martial law in the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines. She says this is...
View ArticleSouthern Cross: 30 years of N-free Aotearoa – Pacific leaders seek healthier...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk AUT Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch freedom project editor Kendall Hutt speaks with 95bFM’s The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson on the weekly radio programme...
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Images: PMC journalists, academics, students and mentors celebrate 10 years
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Participants at the Pacific Media Centre’s 10th anniversary celebration last Thursday held a silent vigil calling for justice for the victims of the 2009 Ampatuan massacre...
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USP celebrates 50 years and leads research action on climate change
Bearing Witness crew Blessen Tom and Hele Ikimotu’s video story of USP’s ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations and climate change. Video: AUT Pacific Media Centre By Hele Ikimotu with visuals by...
View ArticleReviving the ‘lost skills’ of traditional waka Pacific voyaging
Waka (or va’a) voyager and environmental advocate Schannel van Dijken talks about the Pacific and Samoan ocean sailing traditions and the challenges of climate change. Video: Pacific Media Centre By...
View ArticleWhere in the world is the Pacific? NZ researchers talk strategy reset
A diverse group of scholars discuss “resetting” New Zealand’s Pacific-oriented foreign policy agenda. Video: Blessen Tom/NZ Institute of Pacific Research By Sri Krishnamurthi Debate has been lively and...
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Sedition, coup-era media law and nerves keep lid on Fiji press
Sri Krishnamurthi With the date for this year’s second Fiji general election since the 2006 coup yet to be announced, one of the questions is will there be a free media for the campaign? Sri...
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Oil victory thanks to NZ ‘people power’, says Greenpeace chief
By Rahul Bhattarai Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman praised the “people power” that gained an important victory in the “oil war” when the Rainbow Warrior docked in Auckland yesterday for a...
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SODELPA’s Rabuka confident of winning power in Fiji election
By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre Fiji’s Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) leader Sitiveni Rabuka is confident of winning government benches in the 2018 general election....
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Boe climate and security pact big step forward, but lacks a gender drive
The major item on the agenda at last week’s Pacific Islands Forum was climate change. However, a gender gap appears to be at play within climate change itself. Jessica Marshall reports for Asia Pacific...
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Refugees, journalist detention in Nauru ‘overshadow Pacific issues’
Support was widespread for journalist Barbara Dreaver’s detention at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru earlier this month. But, reports Maxine Jacobs for Asia Pacific Journalism, some commentators...
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Fisherman kept in ‘abject’ conditions at sea repatriated from Fiji, says lawyer
By Rahul Bhattarai An allegedly “enslaved” Indonesian fisherman on board Yu Shun 88, a Taiwanese flagged tuna longliner, has now been repatriated from Fiji to his homeland, says an Auckland lawyer....
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Young PMN journalist ‘flips the switch’ on Pasifika news stories
By Leilani Sitagata Becoming a journalist wasn’t always on the radar for a young Pasifika reporter from Auckland who covered the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit in Nauru earlier this month....
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Climate change and security big focus for Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru
Climate change is a major worry to the Pacific Islands and it was the major talking point at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) earlier this month. Barbara Dreaver of Television New Zealand, who was...
View ArticleDear Heather, we’re really talented, empowered – and we’re not leeches!
The Plantation Conversations video. By Leilani Sitagata Since media personality Heather Du Plessis-Allan’s “leech” comments late last month, some of New Zealand’s Pasifika community have responded with...
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Pacific storytelling with a focus on the ignored and ‘untold’ issues
A video made by an AUT screen production graduate, Sasya Wreksono, marking the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC PROFILE: By Craig Major of AUT News Based at Auckland University...
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‘I was coerced into the 1987 coup,’ admits Sitiveni Rabuka
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Asia-Pacific Report A repentant Sitiveni Rabuka, the Fiji military strongman who sparked off the country’s “coup culture” in 1987, admits he was “coerced” by the defeated...
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Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes
A look at the lives of Pacific Islanders who choose to ignore or struggle to embrace their heritage. Video: Plastic Polynesia trailer By Leilani Sitagata Two final-year communication studies students...
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30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital
Police say some people decided to take the law into their own hands and marched through some streets of the capital, fighting, causing public disturbances and property damage, reports the Solomon Star....
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PMC projects creative ‘grab bag’ unveiled at midwinter showcase
By Michael Andrew A creative “grab bag” of projects has been unveiled by the Pacific Media Centre in a showcase of collaboration across academic and communication communities. Held at Auckland...
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Gallery: Guardianship photo shoot with the Ihumātao ‘protectors’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre’s Del Abcede joined the Ihumātao “protectors” protest at the weekend to soak up the atmosphere of guardianship over the future of the sacred...
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Special Report – The unmasking of Hong Kong
A special multimedia report by Hugh Bohane in Hong Kong As China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the birth of its Communist Party on October 1 with an extravagant military parade, down south in Hong...
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Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling
Iran attracts an onslaught of negative media in New Zealand and Western media. But is it fair or deserved? David Robie has spent several weeks travelling in the country on sabbatical and finds the...
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Iran’s great global adventurers – around the lost world in 10 years
David Robie, concluding his three-part series about Iran, profiles an extraordinary pair of Tehran brothers who have been pioneering global research adventurers. They have been dubbed the “Persian...
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Vanuatu Daily Post’s Dan McGarry “gutted” by Vanuatu government’s action to...
Dan McGarry. Image: David Robie/PMC By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Media Director of the Vanuatu Daily Post group, Dan McGarry, is devastated by the Vanuatu government’s decision to reject...
View ArticleCoronavirus threat to Pacific, Papuan students in NZ and a starfish scourge
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre’s weekly Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM has featured the latest Pacific news brought to you by Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri...
View ArticleSouthern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time
Pacific Media Watch From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an “authoritarianism creep” by governments in the Asia-Pacific region provided a fast-changing...
View ArticlePacific coronavirus: NZ’s big decision, j-schools and media closures
Pacific Media Watch Into the fourth week of lockdown in New Zealand, and today’s weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern Cross radio programme covers what journalism schools are doing in the Asia-Pacific...
View ArticleSouthern Cross covers pandemic lockdown and media ‘fast one’
Pacific Media Watch Well into the alert level 3 phase of New Zealand’s covid-19 coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and today’s weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern Cross radio programme covers what is...
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Gallery: The virus shackles are off … but where was the social distancing?
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch hops on a bus from Onehunga to Auckland to check out day one of New Zealand’s new coronavirus status – alert level 2. Alert level two...
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Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed by Professor David Robie, in his...
View ArticleO’Neill arrest featured on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
Pacific Media Watch The arrest of former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on his arrival home in Port Moresby was featured today on Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross segment on Radio...
View ArticleSouthern Cross: Buyout offer saves AAP and gives Pacific a breather
Pacific Media Watch A reprieve for the newsagency Australian Associated Press (AAP) is featured today on Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross segment on Radio 95bFM. An article written by student...
View ArticleUSP leadership crisis talking point with Michael Field on Southern Cross
Pacific Media Watch Host Sherry Zhang interviewed veteran Pacific affairs journalist Michael Field who broke last week’s story on the secret BDO New Zealand accountancy report into allegations of...
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Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Thirty five years ago this week in another life Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on board the original Rainbow Warrior,...
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From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie, who sailed on the original Rainbow Warrior to Rongelap atoll and is author of the book Eyes of Fire. Thirty five years ago today the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was...
View ArticleSouthern Cross: Uproar over ABS-CBN denial of TV licence by government
Pacific Media Watch Host Oscar Perress talked to contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Sri Krishnamurthi today about Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s government rejecting a licence for the...
View ArticleLoimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary
Pacific Media Watch Host Zoe Larsen Cumming had much to discuss on a new documentary, the exquisitely made Loimata – The Sweetest Tears, which was launched last Saturday to a full house at the ASB...
View ArticleNew covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire’s Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in...
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How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action
The project video – read the linked story. By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre Climate change action has been “shelved” for the moment in Papua New Guinea says a postgraduate media...
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Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for decades covered events in the Middle East and elsewhere as a...
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