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February 5, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University News Corp Australia and Google have announced the creation of the Digital News Academy in partnership with the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. It will provide digital skills training for News Corp journalists and other ... <a title="Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/journalism-academics-question-news-corps-deal-with-google-and-melbourne-business-school/" aria-label="Read more about Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A global Papuan students abroad umbrella organisation has appealed for a meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to air their grievances over changes to the scholarship system which they say are unfairly impacting on their studies. In a statement today responding to a letter by the Indonesian Ambassador to New Zealand ... <a title="Papuan students appeal for meeting with President Jokowi to air grievances" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/papuan-students-appeal-for-meeting-with-president-jokowi-to-air-grievances/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan students appeal for meeting with President Jokowi to air grievances">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A global Papuan student welfare advocacy group has condemned the Indonesian government’s disruption of autonomous local education grants supporting studies abroad, branding the move as “assassinating” indigenous human resource development. The International Alliance of Papuan Student Associations Overseas (IAPSAO) issued an open letter today headed “Do not disturb and hinder [us] ... <a title="Global Papuan student body condemns Jakarta’s disruption of study funds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/global-papuan-student-body-condemns-jakartas-disruption-of-study-funds/" aria-label="Read more about Global Papuan student body condemns Jakarta’s disruption of study funds">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
A report on the Next Generation Radio project … covering climate change in Fiji in real time. Video: Next Gen SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Betz in Ninole, Hawai’i As Cyclone Cody got set to pummel Fiji in early January, students at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji were getting set to start ... <a title="Boosting Pacific digital media skills amid a cyclone – all part of the job" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/boosting-pacific-digital-media-skills-amid-a-cyclone-all-part-of-the-job/" aria-label="Read more about Boosting Pacific digital media skills amid a cyclone – all part of the job">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji parents are advised not to send their children to school today if they are not feeling well as the country is rocked by a third wave of the covid-19 pandemic. That was the advice from the Ministry of Education as the last term for 2021 begins on January 4 ... <a title="Fiji parents warned about sick children in back-to-school catch-up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/fiji-parents-warned-about-sick-children-in-back-to-school-catch-up/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji parents warned about sick children in back-to-school catch-up">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
RNZ Pacific A law professor in Noumea says New Caledonia is now faced with a period of high uncertainty — be it political, economic or institutional. Mathias Chauchat said referendum voters were made to believe that with yesterday’s no vote, the provisions of the 1998 Noumea Accord had become void. The Noumea Accord lapsed with ... <a title="New Caledonia faced with uncertainty over Noumea Accord legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/new-caledonia-faced-with-uncertainty-over-noumea-accord-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia faced with uncertainty over Noumea Accord legacy">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific ReportIncoming new vice-chancellor for Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Toelesulusulu Dr Damon Ieremia Salesa is keenly aware that he has broken through another glass ceiling. The son of a factory worker made New Zealand history last week, as the first Pacific person to be ... <a title="AUT’s new academic head seeks to build relationships around Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/auts-new-academic-head-seeks-to-build-relationships-around-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about AUT’s new academic head seeks to build relationships around Pacific">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report Keynote speakers professor David Robie and Glenda Gloria, executive editor of Rappler, addressed “truth and justice” on the opening day of the Asian Media Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) conference in Auckland. Dr Robie opened the conference yesterday with his topic “Journalism education ‘truth ’ challenges in an ... <a title="‘No stranger to media freedom threats’, but hope at communication forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/no-stranger-to-media-freedom-threats-but-hope-at-communication-forum/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No stranger to media freedom threats’, but hope at communication forum">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two Asia-Pacific media commentators. “Without journalists who will tell it like it is no matter the consequences, the future will continue to be one of alternate facts and manipulated opinions,” Rappler ... <a title="Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/media-advocates-tell-of-struggle-for-survival-and-truth-at-asia-pacific-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific forum">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2021
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific Report A Filipina journalist who cut her teeth as a young reporter in the Marcos dictatorship years and now heads an investigative digital media outlet and a New Zealand journalist who was on board the bombed Rainbow Warrior environmental campaign ship are keynote speakers at an Asia-Pacific conference opening ... <a title="Rappler chief editor and Asia-Pacific media keynotes at ‘pandemic’ forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/25/rappler-chief-editor-and-asia-pacific-media-keynotes-at-pandemic-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler chief editor and Asia-Pacific media keynotes at ‘pandemic’ forum">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2021
By Poreni Umau and Phoebe Gwangilo in Kokopo Kokopo Business College in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain province has evicted male students by force from its dormitories and dumped them onto the streets after a spate of school disturbances on Monday. Police brutality against male students is alleged and female students were also reportedly ... <a title="PNG police throw out Kokopo business students after drunken parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/18/png-police-throw-out-kokopo-business-students-after-drunken-parties/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police throw out Kokopo business students after drunken parties">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2021
RNZ Pacific The new vice-chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology is calling on young Pasifika peoples pursuing their education to stay the course. Toeolesulusulu Dr Damon Salesa, who is currently a pro vice-chancellor at the University of Auckland takes up his new role at AUT in March. He is the first person of Pacific ... <a title="‘Transform lives’ with education, new vice-chancellor for AUT tells Pasifika" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/18/transform-lives-with-education-new-vice-chancellor-for-aut-tells-pasifika/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Transform lives’ with education, new vice-chancellor for AUT tells Pasifika">Read more</a>
