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Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa

West Papuan wounds of suffering – diplomatic pressure on Indonesia needed urgently

COMMENTARY: By Ronny Kareni
Recent videos depicting the barbaric torture of an indigenous Papuan man by Indonesian soldiers have opened the wounds of West Papua’s suffering, laying bare the horrifying reality faced by its people.

We must confront this grim truth — what we witness is not an isolated incident but a glaring demonstation of the deep-seated racism and systematic persecution ravaging West Papuans every single day.

Human rights defenders that the…

Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’

By Kelvin Anthony 
Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism and  “issues of power lie at the heart of this”, new research has revealed.

The study, published in Journalism Practice by researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of the South Pacific, highlights there is a serious need to address the problem which is fundamental to press freedom and quality journalism.

“We…

Earthwise talks to APMN's David Robie on Pacific issues and news media

Pacific Media Watch
Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr Robie, deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network and editor of Asia Pacific Report, talks about the struggle to raise awareness of critical Pacific issues such as West Papuan self-determination and the fight…

USP to host ‘critical issues’ Pacific media conference to shape future

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.

Efeso Collins . . . ’empowering our rangatahi to think beyond the lines’

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…

2024 Pacific Media Conference

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…

Kia Ora Whānau #6


Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #6/2024 – 5 February 2024
Kia Ora Whānau and Happy Waitangi Day tomorrow,
 
A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) activities, happenings and future events:
 
Key upcoming dates:
APMN Annual General Meeting (April 2024 TBC)
APMN Nuclear-Free Exhibition Planning meeting (TBC) 
APMN participation in Pacific Media Summit (USP, Suva, Fiji, 4-6 July 2024)
 Celebration of 30 years publishing of…

Media plurality, independence and Talanoa, a Pacific journalism model

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.)…

Kia Ora Whānau #5

Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #5/2023 – 23 October 2023
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) activities, happenings and future events:
 
Key upcoming dates:
APMN participation in JERAA 2023 (UTS Sydney, 5-7 December 2023)
APMN participation in Pacific Media Summit (USP, July 2024 – more information soon)
 Celebration of 30 years publishing of PJR at the Pacific Media Summit (USP, July…

Pacific archives for Oceania media students


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…

Kia Ora Whānau #4

Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #4/2023 – 4 September 2023
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
 A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) activities, happenings and future events:
 
Key upcoming dates:
APMN participation in AMIC 2023 (Bandung, Indonesia, 28-30 September 2023)
APMN participation in JERAA 2023 (UTS Sydney, 5-7 December 2023)
Call for Papers for next PJR (publication due July, 2024)
Submissions for next PJR edition…

Allegations over cult leader feature in new Muslim Media Watch monitor


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…

Pacific Journalism Review

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…

Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions

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…

Kia Ora Whānau #3

Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #3/2023 – 22 June 2023
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
 A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) activities, happenings and future events:
 
Key upcoming dates:
APMN SGM (date Monday, June 26, 2023 - see separate notice sent from our secretary Khairiah A. Rahman)
Tuwhera Workshop (Wednesday, June 28, 2023 – see attached flyer with venue, Zoom & programme details)
West Papua seminar (Saturday…

Asia Pacific media network plans wider community brief

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…

Asia Pacific Media Network AGM2023

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…

Kia Ora Whānau #2

Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #2/2023 – 28 February 2023
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
 A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) activities, happenings and future events:
 
Key upcoming dates:
APMN AGM (date April 14, 2023, TBC)
Submissions for next PJR edition close: March 31, 2023
Publication of next PJR edition: July 2023

Pictured top: Professor Steven Ratuva pictured with PJR back copies. Image: Macmillan Brown Centre…

Reflections on PNG’s Draft National Media Development Policy 2023


MEDIA RELEASE: Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand
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An urgent rethink is needed on several aspects of the Draft Media Policy


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…

Kia Ora Whānau #1

Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #1/2023 – 4 January 2023
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
Hepi Niu Yia Olgeta!
 
 A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) activities, happenings and future events:
 
Key upcoming dates:
APMN AGM (date TBC in early April)
Submissions for next PJR edition close: March 31, 2023
Publication of next PJR edition: July 2023

Pictured top: Hepi Niu Yia Olgeta - from…

APMN Updates #3

Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #3/2022 - 21 November 2022
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
A few quick updates on APMN happenings and future events:
 
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…

APMN Updates #2

2Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #2/2022 - 13 October 2022
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
A few quick updates on APMN happenings and future events:
 
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…

Submission on proposed NZ Aid Scholarships for Papuan Students

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…

New Asia Pacific nonprofit takes up role of PJR publishing

Asia Pacific Media Network members at a recent meeting in Auckland's Whānau Community Centre. Image: PJR

Asia Pacific Report
A new Asia Pacific nonprofit group has taken up the role of publishing the independent Pacific Journalism Review and other research and publication ventures.

The launch of the Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa Inc. (APMN) has ensured the viability of the New Zealand-based 28-year-old journal that was founded at the University…

APMN Updates #1

Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #1/2022 - 10 September 2022
Kia Ora Whānau,
 
A few quick updates on APMN happenings and future events:

1. Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill
Thanks to Philip and Heather, we were able to make an 11th hour submission this week to the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill, a vitally important development in New Zealand public interest journalism and it is vital for our…

Submission on the Aotearoa New Zealand public Media Bill

Lack of vision or substantial rationale
To the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee
Submission on the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill 
Pacific Journalism Review and the Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa Incorporated

  • While the Pacific Journalism Review and its publisher, Asia Pacific Media Network, welcome the attempt to substantially strengthen Aotearoa New Zealand’s public interest media with a publicly owned media organisation (ANZPM) designed for the digital age…