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Pacific Island news outlets 'vulnerable' to geopolitical influence, Singh tells ABC

ABC Pacific Beat
Diplomacy and geopolitics often dominates the media coverage of the Pacific region, but what impact is the geopolitical competition between China, the US, Australia and others having on the media itself?

Veteran media academic Associate Professor Shailendra Singh (APMN member), head of journalism at The University of the South Pacific, says that like Pacific governments, regional news outlets are also grappling with increased aid and attention.

"What we are…

Pacific Journalism Review in the news

Asia Pacific Media Network
Our article by David Robie about 30 years of Pacific Journalism Review published by DevPolicy Blog of Australian National University's Development Policy Centre was widely picked up by news media in the region.

After initially being republished by the Fiji-based regional Pacnews service, it was also published at least three national dailies -- the PNG Post-Courier, The Fiji Times and the Fiji Sun.

Ironically, it…

AI-created editorials: What in HAL’s name was the Herald thinking?


COMMENTARY: By Dr Gavin Ellis in Knightly Views
Integrity is the most valued element of a news organisation’s reputation. Without it, it cannot expect its audience to lend credence to what it publishes or broadcasts. So, The New Zealand Herald has dealt itself an awful blow.

Its admission that it used generative AI to scrape content and then create an editorial about the All Blacks came only after it was caught out…

Pacific Journalism Review at 30 – a strong media legacy

COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Devpolicy Blog
Pacific Journalism Review (PJR) began life three decades ago in Papua New Guinea and recently celebrated a remarkable milestone in Fiji with its 30th anniversary edition and its 47th issue.

Remarkable because it is the longest surviving Antipodean media, journalism and development journal published in the Global South. It is also remarkable because at its birthday event held in early July at the…

Navigating challenges and shaping futures - Call for submissions

NAVIGATING CHALLENGES AND SHAPING FUTURES: Call for submissions
Pacific Media is calling for papers and panel presentations for a special edition to be published in late 2024 drawing on the submissions at the recent Pacific International Media Conference with the theme “Navigating Challenges and Shaping Futures in Pacific Media Research and Practice” in Suva, Fiji, on 4-6 July.

We are seeking submissions covering journalism, media and communication issues in the Asia Pacific…

US election: 5 ways to manage your news consumption to reduce anxiety

By Mark Pearson, Journlaw
As I started to disappear into the vortex of 24/7 media coverage of the US election, I recalled the news anxiety I experienced in 2020 at the start of the covid-19 pandemic which prompted me to write an article for The Conversation titled “Coronavirus: 5 ways to manage your news consumption in times of crisis“.

I republish an edited version here …

Following events in the…

Report of the Pacific International Media Conference, Suva, Fiji, 2024

By Dr Adam Brown
The Pacific International Media conference was held 4–6 July 2024 at the Holiday Inn, Suva, Fiji. The organising partners were the The University of the South Pacific (USP), the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), and the Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN).  Main sponsors were the US Embassy in Fiji and the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM), with several other supporting bodies.

Dignitaries who attended came from…

Polarised media undermines democracy, professor warns at Pacific media conference

By Kaneta Naimatau in Suva
In a democracy, citizens must critically evaluate issues based on facts. However in a very polarised society, people focus more on who is speaking than what is being said.

This was highlighted by journalism Professor Cherian George of the Hong Kong Baptist University as he delivered his keynote address during the recent 2024 Pacific International Media Conference at the Holiday Inn, Suva.

According to Professor George when…

Facebook reportedly censors posts by Solomon Islands news outlet

Facebook has reportedly temporarily blocked posts published by an independent online news outlet in Solomon Islands after incorrectly labelling its content as “spam”.

In-Depth Solomons, a member centre of the non-profit OCCRP (Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project), was informed by the platform that more than 80 posts had been removed from its official page.

According to OCCRP, the outlet believes opponents of independent journalism in the country could…

It takes more than global chaos to change the front page

Knightly Views, by Gavin Ellis
The computer chaos that enveloped much of the world on Friday told us something about almost all of New Zealand’s daily newspapers: Either their deadlines mean they are no longer newspapers, their priorities lie elsewhere, or their "news" values are shot to hell.

I say “almost all” because one newspaper stood out from its contemporaries. The Otago Daily Times was the only paper that led its…

A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva
Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific, including its media, to re-assert itself and chart its own path, rooted in its unique cultural, economic and environmental context.

The tone for the discussions was set by Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Information and Communications Technology Timothy Masiu, chief guest at the official dinner of the…

PANG talks to APMN journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues

PANG Media
The PANG media team at this month’s Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David Robie and questioned him on his views about decolonisation in the Pacific.

Dr Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), a co-organiser of the conference, shared his experience on reporting on Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua’s fight…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…
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