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Special PJR Melanesian edition offers voice to the voiceless (v26n1)

03-08-2020

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