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Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst

March 17, 2020

This chart shows the extent that the initial Chinese outbreak of Covid-19 was confined to Hubei province, a province with a population similar to that of Italy. And it shows that, while Hubei still has more recorded deaths per capita than Italy, Italy has more than twice as many active (unrecovered) cases per person. Italy’s ... <a title="Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/keith-rankin-graph-analysis-covid-19-virus-west-is-worst/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst">Read more</a>

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Scientists call for media sobriety amid Covid-19 fake news ‘infodemic’

March 11, 2020

By Dr Crispin Maslog in Manila As fake news on Covid-19 spreads faster than the virus, scientists call for a halt to the “infodemic”. As China admits that the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is now the worst public health crisis that the country has faced since its founding, a group of scientists has sent out a ... <a title="Scientists call for media sobriety amid Covid-19 fake news ‘infodemic’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/scientists-call-for-media-sobriety-amid-covid-19-fake-news-infodemic/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists call for media sobriety amid Covid-19 fake news ‘infodemic’">Read more</a>

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Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks

March 11, 2020

By Paul Spoonley of Massey University In the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immune to far-right extremist violence. A year on, I’m not sure enough has changed. I have researched far-right extremism for decades – and ... <a title="Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/far-right-extremists-still-threaten-nz-a-year-on-from-christchurch-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks">Read more</a>

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A toilet paper run is like a bank run – economic fixes similar

March 9, 2020

By Alfredo R. Paloyo of University of Wollongong Panic buying knows no borders. Shoppers in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States have caught toilet paper fever on the back of the Covid-19 coronavirus. Shop shelves are being emptied as quickly as they can be stocked. This panic buying is the result ... <a title="A toilet paper run is like a bank run – economic fixes similar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/09/a-toilet-paper-run-is-like-a-bank-run-economic-fixes-similar/" aria-label="Read more about A toilet paper run is like a bank run – economic fixes similar">Read more</a>

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ALP’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run faster to win the race

February 25, 2020

By Will Steffen of the Australian National University Opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s announcement on Friday that a Labor government in Australia would adopt a target of net-zero emissions by 2050 was a big step in the right direction. But a bit of simple maths reveals the policy is too little, too late. Perhaps the most ... <a title="ALP’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run faster to win the race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/25/labors-climate-policy-too-little-too-late-we-must-run-faster-to-win-the-race/" aria-label="Read more about ALP’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run faster to win the race">Read more</a>

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Climate change research aims to give back Pacific’s ‘sustainable voice’

February 24, 2020

Pacific Media Watch A University of Waikato researcher says some of the current colonial representations of climate change in the Pacific are obscuring Pacific voices and failing to recognise the importance of Indigenous knowledge in the fight against the changing climate. Dr Jessica Pasisi’s thesis, Niue Women’s Perspective and Experiences of Climate Change – a ... <a title="Climate change research aims to give back Pacific’s ‘sustainable voice’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/24/climate-change-research-aims-to-give-back-pacifics-sustainable-voice/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change research aims to give back Pacific’s ‘sustainable voice’">Read more</a>

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Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ Pacific media archive

February 9, 2020

A video made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pacific Journalism Review in 2014. Video: Sasya Wreksono/PMC Pacific Media Watch Tuwhera, the open access repository and publisher of Auckland University of Technology, has added 16 years of back copy editions of Pacific Journalism Review to the digital resource. The full text articles from a further ... <a title="Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ Pacific media archive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/09/tuwhera-expands-the-pjr-critical-inquiry-pacific-media-archive/" aria-label="Read more about Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ Pacific media archive">Read more</a>

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Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals

January 21, 2020

By Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald in Sydney In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New York and became a household name, Catherine Hay Thomson arrived at the entrance of Kew Asylum in Melbourne on “a hot grey morning with a lowering sky”. Hay Thomson’s two-part ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/hidden-women-of-history-australian-undercover-journalist-in-hospitals/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals">Read more</a>

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Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’

January 18, 2020

By Camille Abiel H. Torres, Charm Ryanne C. Magpali, Laurd Menhard Salen of The Varsitarian in Manila A New Zealand media academic and freedom advocate has warned that shutting down the Philippines’ largest and most popular media network would be a move toward dictatorship. Professor David Robie, director of the New Zealand-based Pacific Media Centre ... <a title="Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/18/media-academic-warns-shutting-key-tv-channel-would-be-step-to-dictatorship/" aria-label="Read more about Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’">Read more</a>

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Pacific reporting among first casualties of NZ media crisis, says academic

November 1, 2019

By Michael Andrew International and Pacific reporting are among the first casualties of struggling New Zealand newsrooms as they try to cut costs to make up for decreasing advertising revenue. This was the bleak message from Dr Mel Bunce, a media academic speaking at Auckland University of Technology earlier this week. Discussing her latest book, ... <a title="Pacific reporting among first casualties of NZ media crisis, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/01/pacific-reporting-among-first-casualties-of-nz-media-crisis-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific reporting among first casualties of NZ media crisis, says academic">Read more</a>

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Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report

October 3, 2019

By Jamie Tahana of RNZ Pacific For 74-year-old Teaga Esekia, a chief from the Tuvalu island of Vaitupu, the ocean is a lifeblood. “Tuvaluans, they have different types of months, not like January to December,” said the elderly but agile man, who still climbs coconut trees every day. “They have their seasons according to fish ... <a title="Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/03/ocean-at-breaking-point-pacific-angst-at-latest-climate-report/" aria-label="Read more about Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report">Read more</a>

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Ethics needed in computing and tech to stop ‘robber barons’, says lecturer

September 22, 2019

By Michael Andrew Social media and tech industries have been replicating the ugliest aspects of capitalism from the 1800s, according to an AUT computer science lecturer. Associate Professor Tony Clear says that social media and tech executives are taking advantage of unregulated markets in a similar way as wealthy industrialists or “robber barons” who exploited ... <a title="Ethics needed in computing and tech to stop ‘robber barons’, says lecturer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/22/ethics-needed-in-computing-and-tech-to-stop-robber-barons-says-lecturer/" aria-label="Read more about Ethics needed in computing and tech to stop ‘robber barons’, says lecturer">Read more</a>