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August 2, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica The obscure UN organisation attempting to set rules for the exploitation of deep-sea metals is facing a potential shake-up as more nations call for a mining moratorium and a new candidate for its leadership vows to address perceptions of corporate bias. The number of countries against the ... <a title="Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/nations-join-ranks-to-delay-deep-sea-mining-approval-by-un-regulator/" aria-label="Read more about Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), has produced fresh insights into the legacy of Pacific nuclear-free and anti-colonialism activism. The community storytelling group Talanoa TV, an affiliate of the Whānau Community Centre and ... <a title="Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/former-fang-president-vijay-naidu-talks-pacific-anti-nuclear-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
Delegates at a Pacific media conference in Fiji two weeks ago heard harrowing stories of female reporters facing threats of violence and harassment. This raised the question: is enough being done to protect female reporters in the Pacific region? In 2022, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, in partnership with the University of the South Pacific ... <a title="‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment and worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/culture-plays-a-big-part-female-journalists-in-pacific-face-harassment-and-worse/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment and worse">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
By Jai Bharadwaj of The Australia Today A pivotal book, Waves of Change: Media, Peace, and Development in the Pacific, has been released at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference hosted by the University of the South Pacific earlier this month in Suva, Fiji. This conference, the first of its kind in 20 years, served ... <a title="Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/groundbreaking-book-waves-of-change-launched-at-pacific-media-conference-in-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in Fiji">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
By Ivy Mallam of Wansolwara Media professionals have been urged to undergo gender sensitisation training to produce more inclusive, accurate and ethical representation of women in the news. Fiji Women’s Rights Movement executive director Nalini Singh emphasised that such training would help avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes and promote diverse perspectives, ensuring media coverage reflects the ... <a title="Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all genders’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/nalini-singh-calls-for-media-coverage-that-reflects-realities-of-all-genders/" aria-label="Read more about Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all genders’">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2024
Pacific Journalism Review Pacific Journalism Review has challenged journalists to take a courageous and humanitarian stand over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in its latest edition with several articles about the state of news media credibility and the shocking death toll of Palestinian reporters. It has also taken a stand in support of WikiLeaks founder ... <a title="Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/12/pacific-journalism-review-turns-30-and-challenges-media-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2024
By Mark Pearson Journalists, publishers, academics, diplomats and NGO representatives from throughout the Asia-Pacific region will gather for the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference hosted by The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, next month. A notable part of the conference on July 4-6 will be the celebration of the 30th anniversary of ... <a title="Pacific Media Conference to celebrate 30th birthday of Pacific Journalism Review" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/22/pacific-media-conference-to-celebrate-30th-birthday-of-pacific-journalism-review/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Conference to celebrate 30th birthday of Pacific Journalism Review">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Asia Pacific Report For more than 76 years, Palestinians have resisted occupation, dispossession and ethnic cleansing, culminating in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Yet in the midst of this catastrophic seven months of “hell on earth”, it is a paradox that there exists an extraordinary oasis of peace and nature. Nestling in an Al-Karkarfa hillside ... <a title="How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/how-palestine-fights-ecocide-with-biodiversity-and-sustainability-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2024
Koi Tū New Zealand cannot sit back and see the collapse of its Fourth Estate, the director of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, Sir Peter Gluckman, says in the foreword of a paper published today. The paper, “If not journalists, then who?” paints a picture of an industry facing existential threats and held ... <a title="New Koi Tū future report calls for overhaul of outdated NZ mediascape to restore trust" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/01/new-koi-tu-future-report-calls-for-overhaul-of-outdated-nz-mediascape-to-restore-trust/" aria-label="Read more about New Koi Tū future report calls for overhaul of outdated NZ mediascape to restore trust">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Just a third of New Zealanders now say they trust the news. That is the major finding of Auckland University of Technology’s research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD)’s fifth annual Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand report, reports RNZ News. Trust in news in general fell from 42 percent last ... <a title="New research report shows major drop in media trust in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/new-research-report-shows-major-drop-in-media-trust-in-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about New research report shows major drop in media trust in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand’s only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year — and it will mark the occasion at the Pacific Media International Conference in Fiji in July. Founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, PJR also published for ... <a title="PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/pjr-to-celebrate-30-years-of-journalism-publishing-at-pacific-media-2024/" aria-label="Read more about PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A community-based Asia-Pacific network of academics, journalists and activists has now gone online with an umbrella website for its publications, current affairs and research. The nonprofit Asia Pacific Media Network, publishers of Pacific Journalism Review research journal, has until now relied on its Facebook page. “The APMN is addressing a gap in ... <a title="Asia Pacific community and media research group goes online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/asia-pacific-community-and-media-research-group-goes-online/" aria-label="Read more about Asia Pacific community and media research group goes online">Read more</a>
