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July 17, 2019
Figure 10: A Kanak voter wearing a ‘Kanaky New Caledonia’ flag tee shirt at the Loyalty Islands special polling booth in Vallee du Tir, Noumea. Image: David Robie David Robie Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Abstract The French-ruled territory of New Caledonia, or Kanaky, as Indigenous pro-independence campaigners call their cigar-shaped islands, voted on their political ... <a title="Independence for Kanaky: A media and political stalemate or a ‘three strikes’ Frexit challenge?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/17/independence-for-kanaky-a-media-and-political-stalemate-or-a-three-strikes-frexit-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Independence for Kanaky: A media and political stalemate or a ‘three strikes’ Frexit challenge?">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Event date and time: Friday, July 26, 2019 – 17:00 – 18:30 JOIN US for this Pacific Media Centre‘s smorgasbord “launch” mid-winter fono and celebration for: + Two new documentaries on climate change and media freedom + The latest Pacific Journalism Review themed on “The NZ Mosque Massacre: Dilemmas for Journalism and Democracy” + The ... <a title="PMC’s mid-winter smorgasbord video, PJR and website ‘launch’ fono" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/pmcs-mid-winter-smorgasbord-video-pjr-and-website-launch-fono/" aria-label="Read more about PMC’s mid-winter smorgasbord video, PJR and website ‘launch’ fono">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
ANALYSIS: By Bates Gill of Macquarie University As China solidifies its new status as superpower and cementing its influence in the Pacific, The Conversation is launching a series looking at what this means for the world – how China maintains its power, how it wields its power and how its power might be threatened. Chinese ... <a title="Xi Jinping’s grip on power is absolute, but new threats to his ‘Chinese dream’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/xi-jinpings-grip-on-power-is-absolute-but-new-threats-to-his-chinese-dream/" aria-label="Read more about Xi Jinping’s grip on power is absolute, but new threats to his ‘Chinese dream’">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2019
ANALYSIS: By Pip Hinman in Sydney Long-time Australian climate campaigner David Spratt and former fossil fuel company executive Ian Dunlop have issued a bold call for unlikely partners to work together to avoid climate catastrophe. In particular, their policy paper, Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach appears to call on the national security sector ... <a title="Climate crisis: Bold call for security partners to prevent ‘catastrophe’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/26/climate-crisis-bold-call-for-security-partners-to-prevent-catastrophe/" aria-label="Read more about Climate crisis: Bold call for security partners to prevent ‘catastrophe’">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2019
By David Robie in Bangkok A leading cyber security expert has called on universities to play a more active role in implementing ethics and legal frameworks for communications smart technology to save society from an Orwellian future. Mohamed El-Guindy, an Egyptian consultant to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC-ROMENA), says communication research programmes ... <a title="Bring ethics into global smart tech, warns UN cyber expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/22/bring-ethics-into-global-smart-tech-warns-un-cyber-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Bring ethics into global smart tech, warns UN cyber expert">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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April 30, 2019
By Michael Andrew More New Zealand journalists have been seeking ways to “prevent tragedy” through their reporting, shows new research published in Columbia Journalism Review. The research, which analysed domestic and international coverage of last month’s Christchurch terror attacks, found that New Zealand news media preferred to focus on the victims, their relatives and the ... <a title="NZ journalists focusing on ‘tragedy prevention’, says CJR research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/nz-journalists-focusing-on-tragedy-prevention-says-cjr-research/" aria-label="Read more about NZ journalists focusing on ‘tragedy prevention’, says CJR research">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
A Papua New Guinean soldier guards the road to Panguna, Bougainville, 1989. Image: David Robie David Robie Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Abstract ‘The original [Panguna mine] agreement overrode our customs, denied us our land rights and was too rushed. It contradicts our way of life; what comes from the land should benefit the landowners … ... <a title="Bougainville: The valley of the Rambos, 1989" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/bougainville-the-valley-of-the-rambos-1989/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville: The valley of the Rambos, 1989">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2019
AUT is a strategic partner for New Zealand’s Techweek19 programme next month, on May 20-26, and the only NZ university taking part. Dr Roseanne Ellis and Professor Guy Littlefair talk about innovation. Video: AUT By Alison Sykora Auckland University of Technology is 16th in the world in the newly released Times Higher Education University Impact ... <a title="Times global university sustainability index ranks ‘creative’ AUT 16th" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/06/times-global-university-sustainability-index-ranks-creative-aut-16th/" aria-label="Read more about Times global university sustainability index ranks ‘creative’ AUT 16th">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2019
ANALYSIS: By Professor Paul Spoonley in Auckland New Zealand police continued today to respond to events following shootings at two mosques in central Christchurch yesterday. The national security threat level has been lifted to high. Mosques across New Zealand have been closed and police are asking people to refrain from visiting. So far, 49 people ... <a title="Christchurch mosque shootings must end NZ innocence over right-wing terrorism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/16/christchurch-mosque-shootings-must-end-nz-innocence-over-right-wing-terrorism/" aria-label="Read more about Christchurch mosque shootings must end NZ innocence over right-wing terrorism">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2019
New Zealand … “respected global leader that can be an innovation lab for the rest of the world in climate change”. Image: NZPI Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand has the opportunity to be a climate change “innovation lab” for the rest of the world, says an international planner and former United States political candidate. ... <a title="NZ could be ‘innovation lab’ for climate change strategy, says planner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/12/nz-could-be-innovation-lab-for-climate-change-strategy-says-planner/" aria-label="Read more about NZ could be ‘innovation lab’ for climate change strategy, says planner">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2019
David Robie, Pacific Media Centre Monday, February 25, 2019 Abstract In 2016, the Pacific Media Centre responded to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston by initiating the Bearing Witness journalism project and dispatching two postgraduate students to Viti Levu to document and report on the impact of climate change ... <a title="Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/25/bearing-witness-2017-year-2-of-a-pacific-climate-change-storytelling-project/" aria-label="Read more about Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project">Read more</a>
