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Pacific Journalism Review publishes under a Creative Commons international licence 4.0. Latest analytics and metrics data is available about the journal at SJR Scimago.

Next edition: Call for Papers: PJR: 30 years on – special edition: Will journalism survive?

14-08-2023

Some of the covers of PJR editions over the past 29 years.

The current ‘Governance, disinformation and training’ edition 29 (1&2) of Pacific Journalism Review was published last month. Here is the Call for Papers for the next edition, marking 30 years of publication since it began at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994 – ‘PJR: 30 years on – Will journalism survive?
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Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in latest PJR

31-07-2023

Pacific women show off the colours of the Morning Star flag of West Papuan "independence" at MACFEST2023 in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in July 2023. Image: Stoen/Melanesian Spearhead Group

Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training strategies feature strongly in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.
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Tribute to our late PJR champion Tui O'Sullivan (Te Rarawa)

29-06-2023

https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/announcement/view/39 https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/announcement/view/39One of the founding Pacific Media Centre advisory board members and a strong core member of the Pacific Journalism Review support team, Tui Rererangi Walsh O'Sullivan (Te Rarawa), from Pukepoto, died recently aged 82.

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Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #2/2023 – 28 February 2023

01-03-2023

Professor Steven Ratuva, the first Te Amorangi (pro-vice-chancellor Pacific) at Canterbury University with a stack of Pacific Journalism Review editions. Image: UOC

A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) and Pacific Journalism Review activities, happenings and future events:

Key upcoming dates:
APMN AGM (date April 14, 2023, TBC)
Submissions for next PJR edition close: March 31, 2023

Publication of next PJR edition: July 2023
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Asia Pacific Media Network News Updates #1/2023 – 4 January 2023

07-01-2023

Kia Ora Whānau,
Hepi Niu Yia Olgeta!

A few quick updates on Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) activities, happenings and future events:

Key upcoming dates:
APMN AGM (date TBC in early April)
Submissions for next PJR edition close: March 31, 2023
Publication of next PJR edition: July 2023
Note: Illustrations are on the newsletter PDF. Email the APMN secretary, Khairiah Rahman, if you would like a copy.
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New Asia Pacific nonprofit takes up role of PJR publishing for research

20-09-2022

Asia Pacific Media Network members at a recent meeting in Auckland's Whānau Community Centre. Image: PJR

A new Asia Pacific nonprofit group has taken up the role of publishing the independent Pacific Journalism Review and other research and publication ventures.

The launch of the Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa Inc. (APMN) has ensured the viability of the New Zealand-based 28-year-old journal that was founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994.
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NZ’s Parliament siege, ‘disinformation war’, kava and media change featured in latest PJR

30-07-2022

Detail of an image from the kava photoessay in this edition by Todd Henry.

Frontline investigative articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament protester siege, social media disinformation and Asia-Pacific media changes and adaptations are featured in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.

The assault on “truth telling” reportage is led by The Disinformation Project, which warns that “conspiratorial thought continues to impact on the lives and actions of our communities”, and alt-right video researcher Byron C Clark.
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Pacific Journalism Review 29(1&2) 2023 – Unthemed edition call for papers

20-07-2022

The inaugural annual general meeting of the Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa Incorporated, publishers of Pacific Journalism Review. Image: Nik Naidu

Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa is calling for unthemed papers for the next double edition to be published in mid-2023.

We are seeking papers that fall within our broad remit of covering journalism, media and communication issues in the Pacific region, including Timor-Leste and West Papua. We also welcome submissions from colleagues in the near Asia Pacific region, including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Social justice research network now publishing Pacific Journalism Review

27-06-2022

Asia Pacific Media Network members and Papuan students share the success of Laurens Ikinia (holding the certificate). Image: Del Abcede/PJR

A new Asia Pacific social justice research and publication nonprofit has taken on the role of publishing Pacific Journalism Review.

The interim chair of the Asia Pacific Media Network and founding editor of PJR, Dr David Robie, announced this while presenting the annual Storyboard Award to West Papuan postgraduate communication studies student Laurens Ikinia for his advocacy work during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when he “raised the profile” of the tiny Papuan community in Aotearoa New Zealand with many articles.
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Welcoming a new book on decolonising peace studies through Indigenous research

02-05-2022

Editorial board member Heather Devere (left) and PJR designer Del Abcede catch up at Ponsonby's Little Garden café and discuss Heather's latest book on peace and conflict studies and Indigenous research.

Pacific Journalism Review congratulates the co-editors – Kelli Te Maihāroa, Michael Ligaliga and PJR editorial board member Heather Devere – on their new publication, Decolonising Peace and Conflict Studies through Indigenous Research.
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Latest PJR updated on global databases and also distributed

15-11-2021

Pacific Journalism Review has overcome the challenges of its first “independent” year in 27 years of publication - in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic - and delivered copies to its global subscribers.
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Bougainville, West Papua and Pacific COVID and climate crises feature in latest PJR

30-09-2021

This latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review was originally planned as an unthemed issue with to catch up on a backlog of research articles.

However, a cluster of media papers on COVID-19, climate emergency and the ongoing human rights crisis in West Papua led to it being designated as a “Pacific Crises” edition. It has been published today.
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Next edition: Call for Papers final reminder - Media change, adaptation and culture (28#1, July 2022)

06-09-2021

The current "crises" double edition 27 (1&2) of Pacific Journalism Review was published last September. Here is the updated call for papers for the next edition: Media change, adaptation and culture (28#1, July 2022). Note the revised deadline.

Journal submissions deadline: February 20, 2022
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Pacific Journalism Review out soon – as a 2021 double edition

11-08-2021

Detail from Kasun Ubayasiri’s “neocolonial plate” image as part of his “Manus to Meanjin” journalism photoessay. IMAGE: PJR

Pacific Journalism Review is running late for its mid-year edition for two reasons –- we have established a new production system this year, and we are producing a double edition as a bonus.
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Next PJR edition 27(1): REMINDER: Call for unthemed papers - deadline May 30

26-01-2021

Pacific Journalism Review is calling for unthemed papers for a special edition to be published in mid-2021.
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Climate crisis, coronavirus, and journalism research methodologies top latest PJR edition

29-11-2020

Climate crisis and the global coronavirius pandemic are key themes along with new research methodology strategies in the latest Pacific Journalism Review edition published this month.
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Journalism, Art and Indigeneity - PJR's next supported project for 2021

29-11-2020

https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1147 https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1147
Pacific Journalism Review is supporting a new "Journalism, Art and Indigeneity" seminar and book project in 2021. This project replaces our usual Call for Papers for the next edition as PJR is on sabbatical for the next few months.

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Editorial changes at Pacific Journalism Review for 2021

28-11-2020

The latest Pacific Journalism Review – “Climate Crisis and Coronavirus” – will go live online on Monday and be launched as a print edition on Tuesday. This has been a transition edition as founding editor Professor David Robie has decided to step down from the role after 26 years of publication in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand. He is being succeeded by Dr Philip Cass (pictured) and the journal will take a sabbatical next year before a new stage in its journey.
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Special PJR Melanesian edition offers voice to the voiceless (v26n1)

03-08-2020

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Hostile media environments in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and West Papua pose growing challenges to the Melanesian region’s democracies, says Pacific Journalism Review in its latest edition.

The New Zealand-based research journal warns that laws and cultural restrictions are providing barriers to open information and are silencing journalists.
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PJR now added to the global Directory of Open Access Journals

22-07-2020

Pacific Journalism Review has now been added to the global Directory of Open Access Journals.
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Next edition: Call for Papers: Rethinking the Social World (26#2, November 2020)

03-06-2020

This special issue of Pacific Journalism Review is linked to the ‘Rethinking the Social World’ online symposium on Social Sciences 2020 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on August 24-25. This is a biennial international event organised by the Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada.
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In Progress: Media freedom in Melanesia (26#1, July 2020)

27-04-2020

The next edition of Pacific Journalism Review has a focus on media freedom in Melanesia in collaboration with the Melanesian Media Freedom Forum. It is being edited by Dr Kasun Ubayasiri and Faith Valencia-Forrester of Griffith University, Brisbane, in collaboration with Professor David Robie and Dr Philip Cass of PJR.
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Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ archive

08-02-2020

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.
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Encapsulating the ‘critic and conscience’ role of a university

09-08-2019

The launch speech of “The NZ Mosque Massacre” double edition of Pacific Journalism Review marking 25 years of publication of the journal delivered by Professor Guy Littlefair, Dean of the Faculty of Design and Creative Industries and Pro Vice Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology, on 25 July 2019.
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NZ mosque massacre, New Caledonia referendum and Fiji elections top latest PJR edition

20-07-2019

A young woman prays outside Ponsonby Masjid in Auckland during the wave of solidarity in the wake of the Christchurch mosque atrocity on 15 March 2019. Image: Del Abcede/Pacific Journalism Review
New Zealand’s unprecedented “internet-native mass shooting” attack on two mosques, the New Caledonia independence referendum, Fiji’s general election and news media responses are featured in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.
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Call for Papers: Media freedom in Melanesia, (26#1, July 2020)

28-04-2019

https://www.griffith.edu.au/learning-futures/community-internship/events-and-innovation/_nocache

The deadline for the next edition: 26(1) July 2020: February 28, 2020.

The next edition of Pacific Journalism Review after our double special edition last July will be an edition devoted primarily to media freedom in Melanesia.
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Trauma research on Filipino TV journalists covering killings revealed in Pacific Journalism Review

27-11-2018

November cover image excerpt by Fernando G Sepe Jr from his PJR portfolio.

The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately.

Revelations in research published in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review on the trauma experienced by television journalists in the Philippines covering President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called ‘war on drugs’ are deeply disturbing.
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Call for papers final reminder: Special double ‘open theme’ edition for July 2019

21-11-2018

November cover image excerpt by Fernando G Sepe Jr from his PJR portfolio.

The deadline for the next edition: 25(1&2) July: February 24 - TOMORROW.

The next edition of Pacific Journalism Review after our Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific issue out last November will be a double “open theme” publication.
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‘Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific’ edition deadline extended (24#2, November 2018)

24-04-2018

The "Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific" edition of Pacific Journalism Review has an extended deadline of August 4, 2018. This edition will be published in print and online in November.
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'Disasters, cyclones and communication' edition deadline extended

11-12-2017

Peer reviewing and editing of the edition 24(1) "Disasters, cyclones and communication" of Pacific Journalism Review is currently underway.
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Call for papers - PJR24(1) July 2018: Disasters, cyclones and communication

27-09-2017

Papers are being sought for a special themed edition of Pacific Journalism Review based on disasters, cyclones, extreme weather and political economy of climate change media. Deadline: January 20, 2018
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Journalism education in the Asia-Pacific edition

08-09-2017

The next edition of PJR, themed "Journalism education in the Asia-Pacific", (23(2)), due out in November is well under way. Read more about Journalism education in the Asia-Pacific edition
Next PJR editorial deadline looming

18-08-2017

Editorial deadline for the next PJR 23(2) this Sunday, August 20. Read more about Next PJR editorial deadline looming
Climate change edition of PJR now published

21-07-2017

Layout work has already started for several papers in this edition of Pacific Journalism Review 23(1) due out in July.
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Climate change edition under way

27-03-2017

Editorial work has started on the climate change edition of Pacific Journalism Review v23(1) so expect some progess updates soon. Read more about Climate change edition under way
NZ journalists working harder, women disadvantaged, says research in PJR

01-03-2017

New Zealand journalists are working longer hours, and feeling more pressure, both ethically and resource-wise, than they were only two years ago, a new research survey has found.
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'Climate change' edition of PJR - time is running out

19-02-2017

"Climate change" edition - Final call for papers with March 17 deadline extension.
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Tip: Downloading and printing PJR papers

01-02-2017

Tip: Best to use the Download pdf file button and then print from your desktop.
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Pacific ‘cyberbullying’, student protests, 'free' media featured in PJR

29-01-2017

Student protests at the University of Papua New Guinea that led to police opening fire on a peaceful crowd last year, Australian journalism training in the Solomon Islands, “cyberbullying” in Fiji, independent campus media, and Radio New Zealand International’s reporting of the Pacific are among research topics featured in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review.
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Merry Christmas from PJR - and our next edition

16-12-2016

Merry Christmas from Pacific Journalism Review - and our climate change edition Call For Papers. Read more about Merry Christmas from PJR - and our next edition