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Pacific Journalism Review
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ISSN 1023-9499 · Asia Pacific Network · 1,095 articles in the index
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Documenting hidden apartheid in the Indian diaspora
Commentary: This article provides an account of an independent filmmaker’s work in documenting some of the stories from the global Indian diaspora. Based in Aotearoa New Zealand, with ancestral connections to Fiji, East Africa, UK, US and India, and using documentary making with both its…
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Media plurality, independence and Talanoa: An alternative Pacific journalism education model
The shrinking mainstream media plurality in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a context for examining publication of campus-based media where student and faculty editorial staff have successfully established an independent Asia-Pacific digital and print press over the past two decades. New Zealand’s…
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REVIEW: Contrasting Al Jazeera’s forensic October 7 report with TVNZ’s Tame interview
October 7, directed by Richard Sanders, Al Jazeera Investigations (Documentary); Israeli-Hamas War: Israeli Ambassador on rising deaths in Gaza,TVNZ Q&A with Jack Tame (Current Affairs). FOR a more informed report of what actually took place when Hamas fighters broke through the perimeter fences…
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Challenges for campus and community media in Asia-Pacific diversity
The ‘watchdog’ model has created a journalism culture that is too adversarial and creates conflicts rather than helping to solve today’s problems/conflicts. The panellists assess new journalism paradigms in the Asia-Pacific region where the media is able to make powerful players to account for…
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OBITUARY: Arnold Clemens Ap: His West Papuan legacy lives on
Arnold Clemens Ap was born on 1 July 1946 on Numfor Island in Biak, at the time, part of the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea. After schooling at church missions in Biak, he studied geography at the Teacher Training School of Cenderawasih University in Abepura, Jayapura, between 1967 and…
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A (non) agenda setting study: News coverage of electric vehicles and their popularity in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores the news media framing of electric vehicles (EVs) in New Zealand and theorises the role it may have played in the uptake of EVs in the country. The results were unexpected; the positive valence of EVs, battery life, carbon emissions, the environment, range, public or personal…
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Time to rethink 'watchdog' journalism in the Pacific
For more than five decades, ‘Watchdog Journalism’ has been taught as the yardstick for a free media. With the so-called ‘mainstream’ media becoming increasingly commercialised—both in a global scale and domestically—and with the media being primarily owned by business conglomerates, the ‘watchdog’…
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War on Palestine: How the fates of Gaza and Julian Assange are sealed together
Commentary: Were they being properly reported, two critically important court hearings in February 2024, in London and The Hague, would expose the US ‘rules-based order’ as a hollow sham. Both posed globe-spanning threats to our most basic freedoms. Neither received more than perfunctory coverage…
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Fact check: Still not core journalism curriculum
Fact-checking has become a global industry, with more than 417 fact-checking outlets in 100 countries operating in 69 languages (Stencel, Ryan & Luther, 2023). According to the Duke Reporters’ Lab, half of the world’s fact checkers are associated with media outlets, but there are also 24 affiliated…
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REVIEW: Defending the right to confidential sources and whistleblowers
Journalists and Confidential Sources: Colliding Public Interests in the Age of the Leak, by Joseph M Fernandez. Routledge Research on Journalism Series. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021. 287 pages. ISBN 9780367474126 IN 2015, media law professor Joseph M. Fernandez co-authored a comprehensive article…
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Social media ecology in an influencer group: Intersection between Fiji's media and social media
Social media use in Fiji has expanded in recent years and has become a ubiquitous feature in wider society. Social media ecology focusses and examines the dimensions of an online environment and its interplay with human experiences in user engagement. These dimensions with human experiences in user…
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REVIEW: Even amidst the pain, author manages to show kindness
Excommunicated. A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren, by Craig Hoyle. Auckland: Harper Collins, 2023. 327 pages. ISBN 9871775542018 IN THIS deeply personal memoir, Sunday Star-Times journalist Craig Hoyle turns his lens on his own family and the destructive effects upon them…
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REVIEW: A grim year ahead, but some cause for optimism
Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2024, by Nic Newman. Oxford: Reuters Institute. 2024. 46 pages. DOI: 10.60625/risj-0s9w-z770 EVERY day more and more online content is disappearing behind paywalls as publishers try to protect their dwindling revenues. Whether readers…
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Legacy media outlets also stand in dock over Gaza: How RNZ, ABC and other Western media failed to challenge Israeli war narratives
As Israel faces charges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague of breaching the 1948 Genocide Convention, for many people Western media institutions also stand in the dock. Critics have pointed to a media failure to effectively challenge a narrative that framed Israel’s actions in terms…
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Nurturing resilient journalists: A Fiji case study of student news reporting in challenging Pacific environments
This article examines the multifaceted learning experiences University of the South Pacific (USP) journalism students gain from practical training. It is the latest in a series of papers on applied learning and teaching at USP journalism. Applied training methods take into account the challenges of…
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REVIEW: Noted: Planning for the survival of megacities
Come Hell or High Fever. Readying the World’s Megacities for Disaster, by Russell W. Glen. Canberra: ANU Press. 2023. 482 pages. ISBN 9781760465537. WITH a title straight out a Tom Clancy novel and a writing style that manages to combine facts, analyses and deep understanding of his topic with the…
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Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle
Commentary: For two weeks in May 2024, protests by pro-independence indigenous Kanaks in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia erupted into a wave of rioting; erection of barricades; and burning of factories, shops and homes with the deaths of seven people – five Melanesians and two…
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After the killing fields: Post-pandemic changes in journalism employment in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
This article continues a longitudinal national study of journalism employment in Australia and contributes to new understandings of journalism employment in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Results suggest a shift in the organisational landscape of the media in Australia, with an expansion of…
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Israel’s war on journalism: A Kiwi journalist’s response
Whether it is termed as ‘self-defence’ or ‘mowing the lawn’, the Israel Defence Force (IDF) has common phrases to describe its ongoing attacks on the besieged Palestine enclave of Gaza. The phrases obscure the devastation of death and disaster in the 2023/24 genocidal war on Gaza. While global…
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The morals that shape the news: A study of Aotearoa New Zealand’s newsrooms
This article explores the personal interpretation of the moral world Aotearoa New Zealand newsroom leaders are guided by when shaping the news, or, in other words, it poses the question: Do personal moral values play a role in Aotearoa New Zealand newsroom? In this study, we examine whether…
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