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SAMOA: Bonding amid the post-tsunami hardship
Samoa Observer/ Pacific Scoop: 4 October 2009
If there is something positive to come out of this tsunami in Samoa, it’s the way in which our people quickly responded to the call for help. Read more
SAMOA: Bloggers respond - nation will "remember this day forever"
Global Voices/ Pacific Scoop: 4 October 2009
Bloggers and citizen journalists are reacting to the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, destroying crops, property and killing more than 170 people. Read more
SAMOA: Picking through the devastation after the tsunami
Savali/ Pacific Scoop: 3 October 2009
At 10.00am on the day the deadly tsunami struck the southern coast of Samoa’s island of Upolu, we arrived at the village of Malaela in the Aleipata district – among the first people to get there. Read more
TONGA:Crown Prince calls for 'closure' on Ashika tragedy
Pacific Media Watch: 20 August 2009
NUKU’ALOFA: Tonga's Crown Prince Tupouto’a Lavaka has tried to bring closure to Tonga’s worst marine tragedy by asking those who have been rescued and the families of the 72 people still missing “to remember and to celebrate . . . life.” Read more
TONGA: Reflections on the Princess Ashika disaster
Pacific Media Centre/ TNews: 19 August 2009
A TNEWS special report reviewing the Princess Ashika disaster with a live studio audience. Pro-democracy movement leader and MP ‘Akilisi Pohiva - who described the tragedy as "manslaughter by neglect" - and ‘Uliti Uata in Tonga discuss the aftermath and give the studio audience a chance to ask questions. Read more
TONGA: Ashika tragedy - Niuean policewoman gave life of service
Pacific Media Watch/ Matangi Tonga: 9 August 2009
Niuean policewoman Sisiliah Puleheloto was working in the Solomons with the RAMSI police force. She is one of two people confirmed drowned in the Princess Ashika tragedy in Tongan waters. The ferry capsized last Wednesday carrying 141 passengers - 93 people are still missing. Read more
NZ: Pacific poll post-mortem – Māngere sticks to Labour roots
Pacific Media Centre: 14 November 2008
Su’a William Sio’s general election victory in Māngere last weekend shows the electorate is still clearly a Labour stronghold, but supporters’ loyalty to the party is not blind, say media commentators. Read more
Region: Threading the Oceanic 'ula 
Pacific Media Centre and Mana Magazine, October-November 2008
Qiane Corfield-Matata packed her laptop and her camera and spent eight days with the Aotearoa delegation at the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in American Samoa. Read more
NZ ELECTIONS 08: Standing up for the underdog
Pacific Media Centre, 29 October 2008
Natasha Burling profiles Tamaki Labour candidate Josephine Bartley and her lifelong struggle to make a difference for Pacific families and community. Read more
Pasifika Media News:
PIMA 2008 - Pac2thefuture Conference
10 October 2008
2008 PIMA Conference news website produced by AUT University student journalists, postgraduate students and staff. Held at AUT, this year’s theme is "Pasifika in the digital era". Read more
GLOBAL: Robert Fisk on the US Soldier's Creed
Pacific Media Centre, 11 September 2008
British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk talks about the code and ethos of American soldiers to New Zealand journalists, journalism students and civil society advocates at a Pacific Media Centre seminar at AUT University, Auckland. Watch video
GLOBAL: Robert Fisk profile - Sticks, stones and ‘balanced’ tragedies
Pacific Media Centre, 9 September 2008
Why is Robert Fisk so hacked off with the way much of the Western media portrays the Middle East conflicts? Katie Llanos-Small interviews an author who has reported three decades of horror and injustice to find some answers. Read more
NZ: Pacific media book launching
Pacific Media Centre, 29 August 2008
Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres launches two new Pacific media books – Media and Development and South Pacific Islands Communication, published by the Pacific Media Centre. Radio journalism students Melissa Fidow and Natasha Greer report on the Media Diversity Forum on the AUT University marae on 25 August 2008. Listen
NZ: The challenges of diversity
Pacific Media Centre, 29 August 2008
Radio journalism student Melissa Fidow and Natasha Greer report on the Media Diversity Forum on the AUT University marae on 25 August 2008 . Listen
NZ: Voices of media diversity
Pacific Media Centre, 25 August 2008
Aaron Taouma, chair of the Pacific Islands Media Association, was at today’s Media Diversity Forum on the AUT marae and recorded these impressions of the nature of “diversity”. Listen
KANAKY: Filming Grande Terre - Part 2
OnFilm, June
AUT's School of Communication Studies television lecturer Jim Marbrook concludes his account of his recent experience shooting a doco in Kanaky with the Sony EX1 camera. Read more
Don't publish and be damned: An advocacy media case study
Global Media Journal, 3 June 2008
A research paper about advocacy media, social issues marketing and the Te Waha Nui newspaper advertisement controversy - C. Jane Berney and David Robie. Read more
KANAKY: Filming Grande Terre
OnFilm, 29 April 2008
NZ: Māori Television Anzac special boosts homage by the young
Pacific Media Centre, 21 April 2008
NZ: New book showcases legacy of Pasifika Styles exhibition
Pacific Media Centre, 21 April 2008
NZ: Papa Pita [Sharples]
Tu Mai, November 2007
Taken by fire, by Vaimoana Tapaleao
Mana, August 2007
EAST TIMOR: The fledgling free press
Radio NZ's Mediawatch - 22 July 2007
TAHITI: Trouble in paradise – the legacy of French nuclear testing
Al Jazeera - 28 June 2007
Hypocrisy over threat to media freedom exposed in Honiara conference
Mediawatch, 10 June 2007
NZ: Marcus Lush talks to David Robie about a Nuclear-Free New Zealand
Radio Live, 8 June 2007
NZ: photo essay - Inter-Faith dialogues Waitangi 2007
Scoop, 30 May 2007
Pacific Media adopt Honiara action plan
Pacific Magazine, 28 May 2007
FIJI: Journalists describe intimidation by government
Pacific Beat, 25 May 2007
REGION: Pacific HIV/Aids crisis needs big boost in education and prevention campaigns
Vincent Murwira - 18 May 2007
REGION: Health and stability – the new challenges in the Pacific
Vincent Murwira - 3 May 2007
NZ: New Zealand yet to ban illegally harvested timber
Vanessa Forrest - 13 April 2007
Media ethics reports 2007
Te Waha Nui, 26 April 2007
Silencing dissent
12 April 2007
Fiji at the cross roads: At sixes and sevens?
Lloyd Ashton, Anglican Taonga, Easter 2007, pp. 18-25
East Timor presidential elections
BBC World, April 2007
Tsunami strikes Solomon Islands
Niu FM - 2 April 2007
Opposition grows against new Births, Deaths and Marriages Bill
Scoop, 1 April 2007
A deeper look at France's role in the Pacific
Oceania Flash, 3 March 2007
From Fiji to Fallujah: The war on Iraq and the privatisation of Pacific security
Pacific Journalism Review - September 2006
Ben Bohane’s portrayal of spirit and war in Melanesia
See also: photo gallery, Pacific Journalism Review - September 2006
