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Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing at the Pacific InternatIonal Media Conference in Fiji . . . Professor Vijay Naidu (from left), Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad and founding editor Dr David Robie. Image: Del Abcede/APMN
Pacific Journalism Review has challenged journalists to take a courageous and humanitarian stand over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in its latest edition celebrating 30 years of publication with several articles about the state of news media credibility and the shocking death toll of Palestinian reporters.
Pacific Journalism Review . . . celebrating 30 years of media research and publication at the 2024 Pacific Media Conference in Suva next week. Image: USP
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 week.
A notable part of the conference on July 4-6 will be the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the journal Pacific Journalism Review.
A Pacific research treasure trove . . . various designs of Pacific Journalism Review over 30 years of publication. Image: APMN/PJR
The nonprofit Asia Pacific Media Network, publishers of Pacific Journalism Review research journal, has now established an umbrella website for its publications and advocacy.
The University of the South Pacific’s School of Pacific Arts, Communications and Education (Journalism) will host the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference in association with its partners the Pacific Island News Association (PINA) and the Asia-Pacific Media Network (APMN), publishers of Pacific Journalism Review.
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 July. 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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The New Zealand-based research journal warns that laws and cultural restrictions are providing barriers to open information and are silencing journalists.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa is no longer accepting submissions. Please submit any manuscripts to our sister publication Pacific Media.
Pacific Journalism Review
Print ISSN: 1023-9499 Online ISSN: 2324-2035
Published by Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa Incorporated, in collaboration with Tuwhera at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Pacific Journalism Review is collaborating with IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, published by the Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for special joint editions on media, climate change and maritime disasters in July 2018.
The University of the South Pacific's Laucala campus in Suva, Fiji. Image: USP
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 
Professor Steven Ratuva, the first Te Amorangi (pro-vice-chancellor Pacific) at Canterbury University with a stack of Pacific Journalism Review editions. Image: UOC
Asia Pacific Media Network members and Papuan students share the success of Laurens Ikinia (holding the certificate). Image: Del Abcede/PJR
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