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REGION: Media critics see new report as hopeful for ‘dysfunctional’ national bodies
Sunday, April 7, 2013
National media associations in the Pacific have been reported as “dysfunctional and fractured” and are seen by some as irrelevant. However, a proposed new scheme may help provide a...
Australian media reforms: Lessons from a narrow escape to a fragile freedom
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Mark Pearson: OPINION: It is just over a week since Australia's Gillard government withdrew the four media reform bills for which it could not garner the necessary support from the crossbench MPs.
NZ: Law Commission proposes converged media standards body
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
WELLINGTON (NZ Law Commission / Pacific Media Watch): The Law Commission is recommending a single new body be set up to provide New Zealanders with a consistent set of news media standards and a...
REGION: 'Dysfunctional, fractured' Pacific media groups need support, report says
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Daniel Drageset: AUCKLAND: (PACMAS / Pacific Media Watch): A new report on how to strengthen Pacific media association paints a bleak picture of the state they are in right now. The report compiled...
PNG: Media industry hit by assaults, ethics issues and no leadership
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre Online / Pacific Media Watch): Harry Pearl reports on a media industry malaise in Papua New Guinea.
PNG media industry hit by assaults, ethics issues and no leadership
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Harry Pearl: ANALYSIS: What’s going wrong in the South Pacific’s biggest media industry? An Asia-Pacific Journalism special report.
PNG: Media Council criticised for lack of action over assault on reporter
Sunday, October 21, 2012
PORT MORESBY (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): A group representing journalists in Papua New Guinea has raised concerns at the lack of action from the PNG Media Council after an...
NZ: Raise level of media 'accountability' debate, say PJR editors
Sunday, October 14, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): News media need to raise the media accountability debate to the level of media regulation to recover from the News of the World phone hacking "debacle",...
FIJI: Media workers body formed
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Torika Tokalau SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): Journalists have always been the voice of the people.
PNG: Media union calls for Manus ban to be lifted
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
SYDNEY (MEAA / Pacific Media Watch): The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is concerned that foreign journalists have been banned from accessing the proposed Regional Processing Centre for...
REGION: Pacific journalists visit tsunami-damaged Japan
Monday, May 28, 2012
TONGA (Matangi Tonga/Pacific Media Watch): A group of Pacific journalists, including Tonga's Telesia Adams, has toured tsunami hit areas in Iwaki city, Japan, that was devastated by the...
GLOBAL: Journalism in crisis - a deeper look at the survival of a profession
Friday, May 25, 2012
Gavin Ellis OPINION AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre Online /Auckland University / Pacific Media Watch): There has seldom been a time in the past century when journalism has not been "in crisis...
REGION: Islands Business editorial on an united media front
Thursday, May 17, 2012
SUVA (Islands Business / Pacific Media Watch): Editorial quote: "It is a positive development that there is a realisation that the regional media puts up a united front rather than a splintered...
Fijian students press forward for media freedom
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Covering the Pacific Islands isn't a simple task. Each country has its own unique culture and broad issues. There are so many political stories, so many development stories and the whole region...
PNG: Former Media Council chief calls on ‘isolated’ news groups to win citizen allies
Monday, May 7, 2012
PORT MORESBY (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch):  A former president of the PNG Media Council has called on “isolated” Pacific news organisations to strike a better relationship...

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