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June 15, 2019
David Robie ISBN/code: 9781927184578 Price: $20.00 Publication date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Publisher: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in association with SciDev.Net and the Pacific Media Centre: Manila and Auckland. “Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local readers, is understandable. However, the mass media also need to ... <a title="Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/15/science-writing-and-climate-change-a-new-environmental-journalism-book/" aria-label="Read more about Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
An excerpt from the cover of Mekim Nius – Tok Pisin for “newsmaking”. David Robie Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Abstract The news media is the watchdog of democracy. But in the South Pacific today the Fourth Estate role is under threat from governments seeking statutory regulation, diminished media credibility, dilemmas over ethics and uncertainty over ... <a title="Mekim Nius: South Pacific media, politics and education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/mekim-nius-south-pacific-media-politics-and-education/" aria-label="Read more about Mekim Nius: South Pacific media, politics and education">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2019
Research David Robie Monday, June 10, 2019 Abstract As critical issues such as climate change, exploited fisheries, declining human rights and reconfiguration of political systems inherited at independence increasingly challenge the microstates of Asia-Pacific, approaches to news media and journalism education are also under strain. University based journalism education was introduced to the South Pacific ... <a title="Karoronga, kele’a, talanoa, tapoetethakot and va: expanding millennial notions of a ‘Pacific way’ journalism education and media research culture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/10/karoronga-kelea-talanoa-tapoetethakot-and-va-expanding-millennial-notions-of-a-pacific-way-journalism-education-and-media-research-culture/" aria-label="Read more about Karoronga, kele’a, talanoa, tapoetethakot and va: expanding millennial notions of a ‘Pacific way’ journalism education and media research culture">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Fair Go assistant producer and a recent AUT graduate Blessen Tom and current postgraduate student Sri Krishnamurthi embarked in May on a storytelling project about Pacific Media Watch. They are interviewing the founders and some of the journalists and students involved on the media freedom project, which was launched in 1996 at the time of ... <a title="Pacific Media Watch documentary under way – the highlights 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/pacific-media-watch-documentary-under-way-the-highlights-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Watch documentary under way – the highlights 2019">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
A member of the Police Response Team in Solomon Islands on patrol during the election of the prime minister in Honiara. Image: Gino Oti/RNZ Pacific By Koroi Hawkins in Honiara Police in Solomon Islands remain on high alert after Wednesday’s riots which broke out across the capital Honiara shortly after Manasseh Sogavare was announced the ... <a title="Solomon Islands police remain on high alert in the wake of political unrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/solomon-islands-police-remain-on-high-alert-in-the-wake-of-political-unrest/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands police remain on high alert in the wake of political unrest">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
By Rosalie Nongebatu, editor of Wansolwara A Solomon Islands academic says the only body that can find a legitimate solution to his country’s current crisis is the National Parliament. Senior politics lecturer at the Suva-based University of the South Pacific, Dr Gordon Nanau, said this following the unrest and rioting in Honiara yesterday by a ... <a title="‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of Honiara riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/leave-it-up-to-parliament-says-usp-academic-in-wake-of-honiara-riots/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of Honiara riots">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
Police say some people decided to take the law into their own hands and marched through some streets of the capital, fighting, causing public disturbances and property damage, reports the Solomon Star. RNZ Pacific reports that an uneasy calm has returned to the capital while Sogavare rejected accusations his past governments have “failed” Malaita over ... <a title="30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/30-arrested-in-honiara-post-election-riots-as-calm-returns-to-capital/" aria-label="Read more about 30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Rioting in Honiara today after the parliamentary election of Manasseh Sogavare as Prime Minister. Image: Screenshot from Dan Dãñzõ Kakadi video By RNZ Pacific Police in Solomon Islands called for calm today after rioting broke out in the capital of Honiara over the election of Manasseh Sogavare as the new prime minister. Sogavare’s win – ... <a title="Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/solomons-police-call-for-calm-to-counter-riots-after-pm-elected/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Surya holds a Tamil community placard proclaiming “we will overcome the darkness” in today’s Auckland vigil for the victims on Sri Lanka’s Easter bomb attacks. Image: David Robie/PMC Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk About 60 people from the Sri Lankan community and human rights advocates gathered in Auckland’s Aotea Square today in a solidarity vigil for ... <a title="Auckland Sri Lankan community holds vigil for terror bomb victims, survivors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/auckland-sri-lankan-community-holds-vigil-for-terror-bomb-victims-survivors/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland Sri Lankan community holds vigil for terror bomb victims, survivors">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Radio Morobe … “The Morobe provincial government has neglected its upgrading and funding in the last 10 years or more”. Image: Post-Courier COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 1990s listening to NBC Radio – Radio Kundu – which was informative and always reaching out to the mass population of Papua ... <a title="Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/sylvester-gawi-deplorable-neglect-of-pngs-voice-of-the-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Papua New Guinean media … RSF says journalists faced intimidation, direct threats, censorship, prosecution and bribery attempts. Image: EMTV News By RNZ Pacific Democracies across Asia and the Pacific are struggling to resist disinformation and protect press freedoms, according to a new report. Reporters Without Borders released its 2019 index last Thursday showing an increase ... <a title="Asian and Pacific nations struggling over media self-censorship, says RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/asian-and-pacific-nations-struggling-over-media-self-censorship-says-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about Asian and Pacific nations struggling over media self-censorship, says RSF">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
The trailer for Will Watson’s documentary on Bougainville peacemaking, Soldiers Without Guns. FILM REVIEW: By David Robie While a gripping film about the apocalyptic Bougainville war, or more accurately the peace that ended the decade-long conflict, opened in cinemas across New Zealand last week, an island roadshow has been taking place back in the Pacific. ... <a title="How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/how-soldier-guitars-culture-and-faith-paved-way-for-bougainvilles-peace/" aria-label="Read more about How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace">Read more</a>
