Saturday, August 6, 2011 - 11:24
The so-called Arab Spring has spawned a revolutionary wave across the Arab world - with protests and uprisings from Algeria to Saudi Arabia. Egypt, Tunisia and Libya have seen the biggest upheavals...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 10:19
Doctoral candidate Rukhsana Aslam, who is the Pacific Media Centre's 2011 Asian Journalism Fellow and a media educator from Pakistan, will examine the concepts of peace journalism and conflict...
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Jon Stephenson: INVESTIGATION: An Afghan-American company that failed to win a multibillion-dollar contract to develop one of Afghanistan's most lucrative mines alleges that the bidding process...
Sunday, February 12, 2012
David Robie: Peace journalism is hardly a new concept, Galtung and Ruge having provided a key conceptual underpinning in 1965 and in later studies. However, while it flourished significantly in parts...
Saturday, October 22, 2011
AFTER NATO – The death of Muammar Gaddafi as a wounded prisoner of war. Disturbing images on Al Jazeera. BEFORE NATO – Independent video of the Gaddafi regime and reasons why the West had...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
AUCKLAND (Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand journalist Jon Stephenson, a research associate of the Pacific Media Centre, has won the written press trophy at the annual Bayeux-Calvados...
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Timothy McDonald SYDNEY (ABC News/Pacific Media Watch): A group of software developers from Brisbane is creating a computer game in which the players are war correspondents reporting from a conflict...
Friday, September 23, 2011
Alexander Winkler AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The little coverage on issues about the so-called Arab spring attests to a “lack of professionalism” in New Zealand media, says a New...
Thursday, May 12, 2011
This statement by journalist Jon Stephenson critiques NZ Defence and government's reaction to NZSAS/Afghanistan issue and the TV3 60 Minutes programme Take No Prisoners. OPINION: On 2 May, chief...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Gordon Campbell in his Scoop column "On bin Laden, Petrobas and Jon Stephenson":
One of the main features of New Zealand's post-Cabinet press conference yesterday was Prime Minister...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
OPINION: The fact that Osama bin Laden, a man who fought his enemies with violence that frequently killed the innocent, is now dead could be a positive development… But it’s a pity that...
Monday, May 2, 2011
Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: A large mansion in a massive compound with 4m to 6m tall walls topped with barbed wire. No telephone or internet connection to the house. And seldom seen residents who...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
MISRATA, Libya: Oscar-nominated director and photojournalist Tim Hetherington and war photographer Chris Hondros both died after a mortar strike in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata overnight.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
David Robie: Was there any real justification in the devastating intervention in Libya - initially French and British-led and now with NATO driving? Is there really a moral case for this "no-fly...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Jeremy Rose: Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch team looks at the media's coverage of the threefold disaster in Japan and examines the progress of al Jazeera into mainstream acceptance while...
