Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 (2021): Pacific crises: COVID, climate emergency and West Papua

Editors: Philip Cass and David Robie

This edition of Pacific Journalism Review was originally planned as an unthemed edition. However, a cluster of media papers on COVID-19, climate change and the ongoing human rights crisis in West Papua has led to it being designated as a 'Pacific Crises' edition. The edition also features a Photoessay case study on Pacific refugee migration and Australian 'imperialism'; Frontline on the making of the documentary Ophir and the Bougainville 'silences'; and the 'Watchdogs under Pressure' Special Report is a major study on the state of journalism in the Pacific. Included in the unthemed section are articles on sustaining democratic freedoms in the Pacific, a journalists' 'toolbox' of the Digital-Global Age, mobile phones and the digital divide, urban settlement communication in Papua New Guinea, and hate speech in Indonesia. Ten books and documentaries are examined in the Reviews section.

Editor: Philip Cass
Associate and founding editor: David Robie
Frontline editor: Wendy Bacon
Reviews editor: Nicole Gooch
Assistant editors: Khairiah A. Rahman, Nicole Gooch
Online editor: David Robie
Designer: Del Abcede
Proof reader: Linnéa Eltes
Cover: Del Abcede
Tuwhera OJS online support: Luqman Hayes and Donna Coventry
Print edition: PinkLime