About Pacific Media

Pacific Media : Te Koakoa: Ngā Rangahau is being launched in 2024 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Pacific Journalism Review.

The Pacific Media publication series offers journalists, journalism academics and community activists and researchers an outlet for quality research and analysis in a long-form article of up to 15,000-25,000 words, or a series of papers, and more opportunities for community collaborative publishing. While associated with Pacific Journalism Review and modelled on an earlier title at the Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Journalism Monographs, the new publication series provides a broader platform for longer research than has generally been available in the journal. Earlier editions of PJM have included a diverse range of journalism research from media freedom and human rights in the Asia-Pacific to Asia-Pacific research methodologies, climate change in Kiribati, vernacular Pasifika media research in New Zealand, and post-coup self-censorship in Fiji.

The name Te Koakoa for the Pacific Media Monographs, a longer form research publication companion to Pacific Journalism Review in te reo Māori can be translated literally either as ‘the sooty shearwater/shorttailed shearwater’ or as ‘The Joy’. Te Koakoa : Ngā Rangahau means research (in the plural). Many thanks to Professor John Moorfield of Auckland University of Technology for his advice on te reo with the Pacific Media Centre (Te Amokura) linkages to seabirds.

The international editorial board is here.

Abstracts are considered on a rolling basis and published occasionally, usually once a year.

Publication Frequency

Monographs are usually published once a year with their own Table of Contents.

Open Access Policy

These monographs provide immediate open access to their content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving and preservation

This journal's content is preserved using the the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS archiving systems.

LOCKSS is a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

CLOCKSS is global archive that preserves content on behalf of all libraries and scholars worldwide. CLOCKSS preserves content in 12 strategically chosen libraries across the globe to optimize the content’s safety against political and environmental threats.  More...