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Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a beacon

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ADDRESS: By Professor Vijay Naidu
Professor Vijay Naidu’s speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva, Fiji, on 4 July 2024. Dr Naidu is adjunct professor in the disciplines of development studies and governance in the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of the South Pacific. 

I have been given the honour of launching the 30th…

Pacific journalists’ resilience shines through at historic conference

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By Justin Latif in Suva
Despite the many challenges faced by Pacific journalists in recent years, the recent Pacific International Media Conference highlighted the incredible strength and courage of the region’s reporters.

The three-day event in Suva, Fiji, earlier this month co-hosted by the University of South Pacific, Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), was the first of its kind for Fiji in the last…

Welcome Mark Pearson . . . at Pacific Media 2024

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Nau mai haere mai Mark Pearson!
A big welcome to Professor Mark Pearson of Griffith University who joined us as an APMN member last week on the opening day of the highly successful Pacific International Media Conference hosted by the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.  

Most of us would know Mark who has been a long-standing member of  the Pacific Journalism Review editorial board and it was great…

APMN's David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings

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PMN Pacific Mornings
A major conference on the state and future of Pacific media has been taking place in Fiji.

Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network, joins Pacific Media Network's #PacificMornings in a live cross to discuss the event and reflect on his work covering Asia-Pacific current affairs and research for more than four decades.

Flashback for our PJR 30th birthday coming up this week in Fiji

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FLASHBACK: Memories from an APMN-West Papua seminar on 28 June 2022 at the Whanau Community Centre and Hub with Laurens Ikinia (holding certificate), who had just been awarded the Storyboard Prize for his contribution to diversity media. Image: APMN
Shared by Nik Naidu (back row left):
Asia Pacific Media Network: 
- We celebrate 30 years of PJR, this coming week in Fiji
- With our Media Conference in partnership with The University…

Kia Ora Whānau #7

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Asia Pacific Network News Updates #7/2024. 28 June 2024.
Kia Ora Whanau and Happy Matariki today.

APMN crew heading for Fiji for the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference
Five of our members have become the Asia Pacific Media Network contingent to the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference being hosted by The University of the South Pacific in Fiji next week.
 
And a sixth member, USP journalism programme head Associate Professor Shailendra…

Pacific Media Conference to celebrate 30th birthday of Pacific Journalism Review

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COMMENTARY: By Mark Pearson
Journalists, publishers, academics, diplomats and NGO representatives from throughout the Asia-Pacific region will gather for the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference hosted by The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, next month.

A notable part of the conference on July 4-6 will be the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the journal Pacific Journalism Review — founded by the energetic pioneer of journalism studies in the…

Former Green MP and ‘conscience of the year’ Keith Locke dies, aged 80

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OBITUARY:  RNZ News/Asia Pacific Report
Former Green MP Keith Locke, a passionate activist and anti-war critic once described as “conscience of the year”, has died in hospital, aged 80.

Locke was in Parliament from 1999 to 2011, and was known as a human rights and nuclear-free advocate.

His family said he had died peacefully in the early hours this morning after a long illness.

Pictured above: Former Green Party MP…

Fiji coup culture - here we go again. More instability?

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COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis, investigative journalist and publisher of Grubsheet.
The Fiji Times totally crosses the line today by using a convicted felon who took part in the 2000 coup to call for the release of the coup frontman George Speight. 

Journalist Josefa Nata spent 23 years in prison for his part in the rebellion. He has served his time and deserves his freedom.

But he does not deserve…

The pen might be mighty, but in war it isn’t much protection

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By Tira Shubart, for News Decoder, a global educational service
With the 156,000 allied troops who came ashore at Normandy on D-Day were 500 news reporters armed only with pens, paper, cameras and recording equipment.

On 6 June 1944, the biggest seabourne invasion in history was launched across the English Channel towards the French coast to establish a base and retake occupied Europe from Nazi Germany.

Known as D-Day — and…

50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a career in Pacific journalism

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By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, manager of RNZ Pacific
This King’s Birthday today, the New Zealand Order of Merit recognises Professor David Robie’s 50 years of service to Pacific journalism.

He says he is astonished and quite delighted, and feels quite humbled by it all.

“However, I feel that it’s not just me, I owe an enormous amount to my wife, Del, who is a teacher and designer by profession, but she has…

Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific

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By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui
Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies expecting change in the face of New Zealand’s Newshub closure next month.

The organisation has content-sharing agreements with traditional NZ media organisations including Stuff, New Zealand Herald, RNZ and TVNZ, and is dependent on them for some news relevant to their readers.

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‘I can’t just stand back’: Kanak pro-independence activist follows mother’s footsteps

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By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist
Jessie Ounei is following in her mother’s footsteps as a Kanak pro-independence activist.

Last Wednesday, Ounei organised a rally outside the French Embassy in Wellington to “shed light on what is happening in New Caledonia“.

She said there was not enough information, and the information that had been reported in mainstream media was skewed.

Pictured above: Kanak activist Jessie Ounei . . . trying…

New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia

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COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono
There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand’s mainstream media has been reporting on in Kanaky New Caledonia. Beyond the efforts to evacuate New Zealanders lies a struggle for indigenous sovereignty and self-determination we here in Aotearoa can relate to.

Aotearoa is part of a whānau of Pacific nations, interconnected by Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. The history of Aotearoa is intricately woven into the…

French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes

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Green Left Show
Indigenous Kanaks in Kanaky (New Caledonia) have sprung into revolt in the last two weeks in response to moves by the colonial power France to undermine moves towards independence in the Pacific territory.

Journalist David Robie from Aotearoa New Zealand spoke to the Green Left Show in Sydney yesterday about the issues involved.

We acknowledge that this video was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing…

How an Irish entrepreneur took the NZ Herald into a new era

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By Michael Horton
In a guest column on the Gavin Ellis website Knightly Views, Michael Horton recalls how a former Irish rugby international entered the history of news media in New Zealand and closed an illustrious chapter during which the Wilson and Horton families had been at the forefront of the country’s newspaper production and the flagship New Zealand Herald.
 
Sir Anthony O’Reilly, who died on May 18 aged…

Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says media educator

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A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation “must come” for Kanaky/New Caledonia.

Dr David Robie sailed on board Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior until it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand in July 1985 and wrote the book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior.

He has also been arrested at gun…

Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots

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ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report (Published APR, 17 May 2024)
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a revered Kanak visionary, was inspirational to indigenous Pacific political activists across Oceania, just like Tongan anthropologist and writer Epeli Hao’ofa was to cultural advocates.

Tragically, he was assassinated in 1989 by an opponent within the independence movement during the so-called “les événements” in New Caledonia, the last time the “French” Pacific territory…

NZ’s first Pinoy Green MP Francisco Hernandez talks climate policy and activism

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Barangay New Zealand’s Rene Molina has interviewed the country’s first Filipino Green MP Francisco Hernandez who was sworn into Parliament on Friday as the party’s latest member.

This is the first interview with Hernandez who replaces former Green Party co-leader James Shaw after his retirement from politics to take up a green investment advisory role.

Hernandez talks about his earlier role as a climate change activist and his role…

TVNZ breached union pact when deciding on programme cuts, ERA rules

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Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has ruled.

It was announced in March that 68 staff members who work for news programmes Midday and Tonight, consumer justice programme Fair Go, current affairs programme Sunday, and the youth programme Re: and in-house video content production were affected by redundancy.

Last month, the company confirmed…