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Thursday, May 23, 2013
David Robie: At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust has been Britain's so-called Hackgate scandal involving allegations of phone-hacking and corruption against the now defunct Rupert...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Graham Davis COMMENTARY: The 26th anniversary of the first 1987 Coup has revived some traumatic memories for many of us who lived through it – the shock, the air of menace, the violence, the feeling that Fiji...
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Holly Ryan BACKGROUNDER: While non-communicable diseases in the Pacific have been on the rise over the last few decades and are partially blamed on the dumping of cheap, fatty food in the region, shortages of healthy...
Friday, May 10, 2013
Jane Jeffries REPORT: “Journalism is in crisis in the Pacific region and this is reaching a new level of intensity,” says one editor. But independent Pacific Scoop challenges the status quo.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Jamie Small REPORT: A UN Commissioner says that over the last year her office has received 26 reports of alleged human rights violations in West Papua, many of which are linked to law enforcement officials.
Friday, May 10, 2013
By Lei Shi The Samoan government is proposing a new law that may change the current definition of national identity as a “Samoan”. Iuni Sapolu, a Samoan-born lawyer based in South...
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Greg Asciutto: REPORT: More than 600 journalists have been killed globally in the last decade — 121 died last year alone. They had one thing in common. They were killed for doing their jobs. 
Monday, May 6, 2013
Tim McBride, deputy chairperson of the New Zealand National Commission of UNESCO's sub-commission on communications, offers introductory remarks at the inaugural Pacific Media Centre / UNESCO World Press Freedom Day...
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Professor Mark Pearson says the lack of press freedom in the Asia-Pacific region is well documented with media in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Fiji needing government licences to operate, and journalists in...
Friday, May 3, 2013
Mark Pearson: UNESCO World Press Freedom Day 2013 lecture. Press freedom, social media and the citizen. Pacific Media Centre, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Anna Majavu: REPORT: Many speakers at an Auckland City Council advisory panel seminar say that combating racism means talking about white privilege and white supremacy.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
James Hollings REVIEW: He  Toki Huna (The Hidden Adze): New Zealand in Afghanistan Māori Television: April 24. Producers/directors: Kay Ellmers and Annie Goldson.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Wendy Bacon: OPINION: I had just finished watching an ABC Q&A show about feminism and decided to take a flick through the Sydney Morning Herald on iPad before retiring. I started noticing lots of male images. Had...
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Made Arya Kencana in Denpasar INDONESIAN authorities have been dealt another embarrassing blow when a second video shot by Dutch stunt journalist Kees Van der Spek hit YouTube this week.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
OPINION: Johan Lidberg writes that the defunct media reform is an opportunity squandered. It takes years to build up momentum for change in the media sector.