By Monika Singh
The University of the South Pacific will host a major Pacific international media conference in July to address critical issues in the regional news media sector in the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic and digital disruption.

The conference in Suva, Fiji, on July 4-6 is the first of its kind in the region in two decades.

With the theme “Navigating challenges and shaping futures in Pacific media research and…

By Lucy Xia
The family of Green MP Fa’anānā Efeso Collins say they are “devastated” at his loss and have thanked the public for their patience during a “difficult time”.

Fa’anānā, 49, collapsed and died during a charity event in the Auckland CBD on Wednesday.

In their first statement since his death, his aiga — which includes wife Fia and daughters Kaperiela and Asalemo — said he was “the anchor of our…

Asia Pacific Media Network
Navigating Challenges and Shaping Futures in Pacific Media Research and Practice

The University of the South Pacific’s School of Pacific Arts, Communications and Education (Journalism) will host the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference, with its partners, the Pacific Island News Association (PINA) and the Asia-Pacific Media Network (APMN).

The Pacific region is witnessing unprecedented shifts and challenges in its small and micro media systems due…

Café Pacific
The shrinking mainstream media plurality in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a context for examining publication of campus-based media where student and faculty editorial staff have successfully established an independent Asia-Pacific digital and print press over the past two decades.

New Zealand’s largest city Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) has the largest urban population of Pacific Islanders globally – more than 300,000 people in a total of 1.7 million (Pasifika New Zealand, n.d.)…

By The Junction
If you're ever writing about issues in Pacific nations, there is a rich and detailed free archive of audio, video and text news articles and research abstracts covering a wide range of topics that you can dip into.

It is available here: https://pmcarchive.aut.ac.nz/

The award-winning website was built as part of an extraordinary pioneering initiative led by Professor David Robie, who was then director of the Pacific Media Centre…

By Pacific Media Watch
A new media monitoring watchdog, Muslim Media Watch, published its first edition today featuring a cover story alleging that a Malaysian cult leader who was reportedly now in New Zealand could “create social unrest”.

Named as Suhaini bin Mohammad, he was allegedly posing as a Muslim religious leader and was said to be wanted by the authorities in Malaysia for “false teachings” that contradict Islam.

His cult…

Media and cultural diversity
The Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa is a peer-reviewed journal examining media issues and communication in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.

Founded by Professor David Robie in 1994 at the University of Papua New Guinea, it was later published at the University of the South Pacific.

PJR was published between 2007 and 2020 by the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies…

By David Robie
Advocates and defenders of a nuclear-free Pacific have condemned the AUKUS military pact and warned New Zealand that the agreement would make the world “more dangerous” and should not join.

Pictured above: Activist minister Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua brandishes the petition against the AUKUS military pact at the launch in Auckland today. Auckland Peace Squadron campaigner Reverend George Armstrong is on the right. Image: David Robie/APR

Participants at a Nuclear-Free…

Asia Pacific Media Network
A media network publishing an international research journal has vowed to expand its activities into community media and training initiatives.

The non-profit Asia Pacific Media Network, publisher of the ranked Pacific Journalism Review, says media and community advocates believe there is a need for minority and marginalised groups that feel neglected by the mainstream.

Network chair Dr Heather Devere told the annual general meeting of the…

Minutes of the 2023 Annual General Meeting
Date: 14 April 2023
Time: 10.30am-12noon (NZT), 10.30am (FT), 8.30am (AET)
Venue: Whanau Community Centre and Hub
Unit 7A/165 Stoddard Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland 1041
(Opposite Harvey Norman)

Chair: Heather Devere

In Attendance
Physical: David Robie, Del Abcede, Heather Devere, Khairiah A Rahman, Adam Brown, Nik Naidu, Camille Nakhid, Jim Marbrook, Ernestina Bonsu Maro (guest)
Virtual: Nicole Gooch, Chris Nash, Philip Cass, Lee Duffield, Ena…

We have been asked by several Papua New Guinean journalists for some reflections and suggestions on this draft policy. We are an independent media research and publication collective that has published the Pacific Journalism Review research journal, founded at the University of Papua New…

 

1      Journalism Education Association of New Zealand (JEANZ) annual conference and AGM, 7/8 December 2022

Several people from our APMN whānau will be attending the JEANZ conference and presenting papers or taking part in discussions, among them PJR editor Philip Cass and assistant…

2Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #2/2022 - 13 October 2022
Kia Ora Whānau,

 

1.  Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill

Along with the widely publicised media organisation submissions on the bill (but limited media coverage on public or community submissions – a total of 892 written submissions), our Pacific Journalism Review editor Philip Cass recently gave a…

To the Member of Parliament for Taieri
Papuan Students Association Oceania (PSAO), Asia Pacific Media Network Inc. (APMN) and the Whānau Community Centre and Hub (WCCH), Tāmaki Makaurau                               

The need for a Papuan scholarship like other Pacific students

The Papuan students association urge for the consideration be given to an annual scholarship applicable to the Indigenous…