AUT appoints new head of Communication Studies school
By Olivia Allison Auckland University of Technology has appointed a new head of the School of Communication Studies, the largest in New Zealand, the university has announced. She is Professor Berrin...
View ArticleFred Wesley: Our environment message needs to be in every corner of the globe
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley Today is a special day. On June 5 every year there is a concerted effort to promote awareness on the importance of our environment, issues that affect it and hopefully things...
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PMC to host visiting Pacific exchange student journalists
Pacific Media Watch News Desk The Pacific Media Centre will host three student journalists today in the opening session of a two-week attachment media programme sponsored and organised by the...
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Pacific exchange journalists begin NZ media ‘awareness’ internship
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Pacific exchange journalists kicked off their two-week internship in New Zealand with a visit to the Pacific Media Centre. Sponsored by the...
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Pacific exchange student journalists wrap-up internships
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...
View ArticleWansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team
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...
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Only 10% NZ school leavers ‘Asia-ready’ and just one-third ‘in zone’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Less than 10 percent of school leavers are “Asia-ready” and only 36 percent are “in the zone” when it comes to Asia readiness, shows new research released by the Asia New...
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Climate change in Asia-Pacific, advocacy journalism in PJR
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Climate change research ranging from Australia and Indonesia to Fiji and Vietnam feature in the latest Pacific Journalism Review in the first publication to focus on media...
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AUT’s cultural diplomacy venture with Indonesia a ‘step into future’
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Auckland University of Technology has launched a “first of its kind” Indonesia Centre in a cultural diplomacy initiative. “This is both a celebration and a step forward into...
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PMC’s David Robie and Gadjah Mada team in Indonesian academic exchange
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Professor David Robie, director of the Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, and seven academics from Indonesia’s Universitas Gadjah Mada will be on...
View Article‘You’re my hero’– UST students pay tribute to teachers in record bid
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk In a bid to set a new Guinness world record, 16,729 students from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines, today trooped to the UST Open Field to thank their...
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‘Asia-Pacific uniting, working together’ – Gadjah Mada team arrive in NZ
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Academics from the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia have arrived in New Zealand in a major research initiative. In the first communication...
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PMC’s monographs launched on Tuwhera in ‘exciting initiative’
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor The Pacific Media Centre’s peer-reviewed research monographs have been launched on the Auckland University of Technology Library’s open access...
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Max Lane brings millennial generation closer to works of Pramoedya
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk from Surya Malang, Indonesia The name Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia’s foremost writer who was born in 1925 and died in 2006, still resonates to this day, not just in...
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Scott Waide: Why sorcery superstition thrives in PNG where services are poor
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea In the early hours of October 23, 2017, a woman in her late 40s was dragged out of her home by a mob who accused her of practising sorcery. Until then,...
View ArticleKiribati – a Pacific ‘drowning paradise’ fighting for its existence
DW Documentary reports on Kiribati’s struggle for survival with climate change. Video: DW DOCUMENTARY: By Markus Henssler Climate change and rising sea levels mean the island nation of Kiribati in the...
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How academic researchers are opening online access and ousting profiteers
By Duncan Graham in Malang, East Java The academic world is supposed to be a bright-lit landscape of independent research pushing back the frontiers of knowledge to benefit humanity. Years of...
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PMC collaboration media project with NZ Institute for Pacific Research
A NZ Institute for Pacific Research profile on researcher Dr Cath Conn and health development by Brandon Ulfsby and Hele Ikimotu of AUT. Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre embarked...
View ArticlePoor Vanuatu pay ruling risks negative impact on security, say upset police
By Richard M. Nanua in Port Vila Some Vanuatu police officers have raised dissatisfaction on the implementation of the Government Remuneration Tribunal (GRT) ruling taking effect today, claiming it...
View ArticlePNG doctors call for compulsory post-mortems to stem sorcery killings
By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby Post-mortems should be compulsory in alleged sorcery-related deaths, says Papua New Guinea’s National Doctors’ Association (NDA). Legislation must be enacted by...
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