Bearing Witness 2016: A Fiji climate change journalism case study
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Report by Pacific Media Centre Figure 1: Daku village, Tailevu, Viti Levu, at low tide surrounded by mangroves: Tackling climate change resilience. Image: Ami Dhabuwala David Robie, Pacific Media Centre Friday, July 21, 2017 Abstract In February 2016, the Fiji Islands were devastated by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, the strongest recorded […]
Read More →Why Pacific and Māori communities are rising up for a free West Papua
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz ANALYSIS: By James Borrowdale in Auckland Like apartheid South Africa, I kept hearing. For a long time, the horrors behind the curtain thrown up by South Africa’s racist government weren’t widely known in this country. It wasn’t until the 1981 Springboks tour that the small band of activists, […]
Read More →In Timor-Leste, more power-sharing likely but election hard to pick
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz ANALYSIS: By Dr Michael Leach in Dili Twenty-one parties will contest 65 parliamentary seats and decide who governs Timor-Leste in national elections this Saturday. In a population with a median age of just under 19 years and a voting age of 17, a fifth of Timor-Leste’s 750,000 registered […]
Read More →Indonesian nun offers lifeline to refugees who fled Timor-Leste
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Holy Spirit Sister Sisilia Ketut with a group of women to whom she loaned money to start small businesses in Atambua, Western Timor. Image: ucanews.com By Konradus Epa in Atambua, IndonesiaRostiana Bareto experienced tough living conditions as a refugee when she and her family settled in Atambua, western […]
Read More →€4.5m plan to build El Niño resilience in FSM, Marshall Islands and Palau
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz During an El Niño Southern Oscillation, the pressure over the eastern and western Pacific changes, causing the trade winds to weaken. This leads to an strong, eastward counter current of warmer waters along the equator. Map: Google Earth Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The European Union and the Pacific […]
Read More →NZ protesters bring ‘human face’ to suffering of Manus, Nauru refugees
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Forty minutes of solidarity marked New Zealand’s stand with refugees imprisoned in Australia’s offshore detention centres across the Pacific today. More than 60 people stood outside Australia’s Auckland consulate to protest over more than 1000 refugees stuck in limbo in processing centres likened […]
Read More →Indonesian woman in Saudi Arabia unpaid for 22 years – wins $44,000
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz An Indonesian migrant worker cries during a protest in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy in 2007 in Jakarta, Indonesia, during which a dozen migrant workers urged Saudi Arabia’s government to punish the killers of two Indonesian workers. Image: Jurnasyanto Sukar/EPA By Euan Black in Jakarta An Indonesian […]
Read More →Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz A Moral Truth … investigative journalism is in good heart despite the difficulties being faced by media companies. BOOKS: By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch It’s often been said there are just seven stories in all of literature. If a new collection of a 150 years of investigative journalism in […]
Read More →O’Neill accepts outcome in spite of Morobe election losses to Pangu
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz EMTV News interview with PNC leader Peter O’Neill after the Morobe defeats. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Despite losing four People’s National Congress (PNC) members to Pangu in open seats in Morobe, incumbent Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has accepted the defeats for his party. O’Neill said […]
Read More →PNG’s ruling party has 300,000 ‘ghost voters’ in election, claims analysis
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Counting at the Rigo Open seat at Kwikila in the Papua New Guinea general election this week. Image: EMTV News Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Statistical indicators suggest the Peter O’Neill government in Papua New Guinea has used its power of incumbency to “cook the books” in its favour, […]
Read More →The insecurity legacy of the Rainbow Warrior Affair: A human rights transition from nuclear to climate-change refugees
MIL OSI – MIL OSI – Source: Pacific Media Centre – Analysis published with permission of PMC Headline: The insecurity legacy of the Rainbow Warrior Affair: A human rights transition from nuclear to climate-change refugees Figure 4: A scene on board the Rainbow Warrior with nuclear refugees bound for Mejato from the Eyes of Fire […]
Read More →Dire year for journalists under state of emergency in Turkey
MIL OSI – MIL OSI – Source: Pacific Media Centre – Analysis published with permission of PMC Headline: Dire year for journalists under state of emergency in Turkey Backgrounder on the first anniversary of the failed coup in Turkey by the Reporters Sans Frontières Eastern Europe and Central Asia team. The trial of 19 journalists […]
Read More →UPNG students make ballot voice heard in spite of challenge over IDs
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Papua New Guinea election counting continues with disputed University of PNG ballot boxes included. Image: EMTV News By Elizah Palme in Port Moresby University of Papua New Guinea students have spoken through the ballot in spite of being provided 2000 ballot papers less than needed due to discrepancies […]
Read More →The world climate leaders’ summit you didn’t hear about
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama giving a keynote speech at the Australian-funded CAPP climate talks in Suva … a behind-the-scenes gag on criticism of Australian fuels and influence in the Pacific. Image: The Fiji Times ANALYSIS: By Rod Campbell As much of the world watched the G20 last […]
Read More →Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz COP23 Pacific-sponsored reportage. Image: Flickr/birdyartworks/UNFCCC Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A Wansolwara second-year student journalist from the University of the South Pacific has been included among 10 Pacific journalists who have been chosen to report from this year’s United Nations climate conference (COP23) taking place in Bonn, Germany, on […]
Read More →Indonesian crackdown on peaceful West Papuan UN vote petition signers
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Yanto Awerkion … arrested late last month by Indonesian authorities for gathering signatures on a petition calling for a new United Nations referendum on West Papuan self-determination. Image: Benny Wenda Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for […]
Read More →USP students, France24 team up in smart-phone Fiji climate story
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The France24 Observers climate change report on Fiji featuring ePOP student journalists Koroi Tadulala and Telstar Edrie Jimmy. Video: France 24 Observers – in French Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Broadcast student journalists from the University of the South Pacific have contributed on France 24 as part of the […]
Read More →Pacific exchange student journalists wrap-up internships
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Pacific Cooperation Foundation media interns Shivika Mala and Linda Filiai visit the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Student journalists from across the Pacific region have wrapped-up their 2017 internships. Brandon Ulfsby, Joshua Lafoai, Linda Filiai, Safia Archer and Shivika Mala say their internships […]
Read More →‘Don’t run to courts’ over every PNG electoral row, judge says on elections
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Andrew Thomas reporting from Port Moresby on the issues at stake in this month’s general election in Papua New Guinea. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A Papua New Guinean judge has called on election candidates disputing ballot boxes to follow procedures before “running to the courts” […]
Read More →95bFM, VICE media team up to offer ‘authentic, credible’ NZ news cover
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Vice Media … new NZ media partnership with 95bFM. Image: VM Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand broadcaster 95bFM and youth media company VICE have today announced a new content partnership that will see the two companies bring a daily news column to the country. A fresh source […]
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