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New Book Challenges Pacific Donor Training Culture

A new book is being published next month that challenges the South Pacific's culture of short course training funded by international donors. The book, Mekim Nius: South Pacific Media, Politics and Education, questions the aid gravy train and makes a strong case for journalism education and training at the region's universities.

http://www.asiapac.org.fj/cafepacific/resources/aspac/161104mekimnius.html

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Pacific Journalist Raps NZ 'Travel Journalism With A Whine'

Asia-Pacific Network: 3 October 2003. By Juliet Rowan. New Zealand mainstream media coverage of Pacific issues is often little better than travel writing, says Agence France-Presse correspondent Michael Field. The New Zealand-based correspondent, who has the distinction of being the most banned journalist in the Pacific, derided the coverage as "travel journalism with a whine" during a keynote address at the two-day Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) conference in Auckland. He said New Zealand journalists covering the Australian-led intervention in the Solomon Islands in July wrote stories about the "nobility" of New Zealand's involvement rather than properly analysing the political situation.

http://www.asiapac.org.fj/cafepacific/resources/aspac/031003pima.html

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EngageMedia.org

EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social and environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It's a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication of the mainstream media. EngageMedia aims to demystify and provide access to new video distribution technologies, create an online archive of independent video productions using Open Content licenses and form a peer network of video makers, educators and screening organisations. The website welcome contributions that give context to the actions and issues of our times, in a variety of styles and genres, whether it's documentary, fiction or experimental. The site is moderated but very much participant driven.

http://www.engagemedia.org/

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femLINKpacific

The overarching development objective of their work is to address the imbalances caused by the traditional decision-making structures which impede women and young women's effective participation, especially from the rural population and the poor, to communicate openly on common matters. By developing and implementing a range of women's media initiatives, such as taking a small mobile radio unit out to women and the communities, femLINKpacific offers a "safe space" to articulate and exchange their viewpoints.

http://www.womensmediapool.org/grupos/femlink.htm

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Fiji's peace in a suitcase

This article look at Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, a Fijian grassroots activist flown in to bring firsthand expertise to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's historic conference on UN Resolution 1325 for women's participation in conflict resolution and decision-making. Their "suitcase radio" project, a mobile radio station, takes radio to women in Fijian communities. Currently secretary of Fiji's National Council of Women, Sharon has worked with many organisations over the years, to include women in Fiji's political life and tap their contribution to peace. She founded the women's media NGO femLINKpacific to ensure women's voices are heard. (Rosemary Bechler, Open Democracy, 6 June 2006)

http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-resolution_1325/fiji_3615.jsp

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Murdoch Media and Fiji Editorials Highlighted in Latest Pacific Journalism Review

SUVA, Fiji Islands (June 13, 2002 - Pacific Journalism Review/Pacific Media Watch)- Murdoch and other foreign domination of the New Zealand media, Fiji coup editorials, the Pacific "non solution" on refugees, and rural publishing in Papua New Guinea are featured in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review released this week. "If the concentration of media control in Australia in 1993 was leading to a loss of liberty to dissent at a critical time in Australia, it is even more true of New Zealand today," writes researcher and analyst Bill Rosenberg. His article shows that between the Murdoch group, Independent Newspapers Ltd. (INL), and Auckland-based Wilson and Horton, New Zealand's two media giants own almost 93 percent of the country's metropolitan newspaper circulation.

http://166.122.164.43/archive//2002/June/06-14-22.htm

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Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC)

Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) is a national nonprofit media organization established primarily for the purpose of increasing national public broadcast programming by and about indigenous Pacific Islanders. PIC promotes programming which fosters a deeper understanding of the values inherent in Pacific Island cultures and which enhance public recognition of and appreciation for Pacific Islanders; that is, the descendants of the first peoples of Hawai'i, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and other Pacific Islands.

http://www.piccom.org/

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Pacific Islands Participation in the World Summit on Information Society -- PREP COM2 (PDF)

SOPAC Miscellanous Report 594, Apisake Soakai, WSIS Regional Adviser, February 2005, Geneva, Switzerland. This Report forms one of the key outcomes of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) involvement in the World Summit on Information Society Preparatory Conference 2 (WSIS PrepCom-2) Tunis Phase, at Geneva Switzerland, February 17-25, 2005.

http://www.sopac.org/data/virlib/MR/MR0594.pdf

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Pacific Journalism Review

South Pacific news media, information and communication issues and analysis. Published by Asia-Pacific Network in association with the Journalism Programme, University of the South Pacific. This journal is linked to the website of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney.

http://www.asiapac.org.fj/PJR/

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Pacific Media Watch

The first Regional Media Web Site in the Pacific, the Pacific Media Watch is an independent, non-profit, non-government organisation comprising journalists, editors, researchers, lawyers and other media workers, supporting media freedom, and examining issues of ethics, accountability, censorship, media freedom and media ownership in the Pacific region - 'Serving media freedom since 1996'.

http://www.pmw.c2o.org/

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Pacific News bulletin banned from 34th Pacific islands forum in Auckland

Media Release, August 8 2003 The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC) is accusing the New Zealand Government and the Forum Secretariat for refusing to grant media accreditation to the Pacific News Bulletin (PNB), the only Pacific Islands civil society owned newsletter, to report the 34th Pacific Islands Forum in Auckland beginning August 12, 2003.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5867PCRC120803.html

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Pacific Radio Heritage Collection

A volunteer work in progress to bring together the stories, history, personalities and other events relating to radio broadcasting in the Pacific region. Eventually, the site will list every station with facts, photos, artwork, recordings, examples of advertising and promotional material, stories and interviews from the viewpoints of broadcasters, listeners and others. The project has access to a major historical database on Pacific radio stations and listener archived material dating back to the 1920's. The project covers Australia, NZ, Hawaii and the North and South Pacific regions.

http://www.radiodx.com/spdxr/rhc_pacific.htm

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Pacific warned against media gagging

By Naziah Ali SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): The media in the South Pacific should be wary of efforts by some regional governments to impose control through legislation, says the international editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Hamish McDonald. The Pacific media, he says, could lose its way if politicians are allowed to put pressure on it with any type of legislation.

http://www.pmw.c2o.org/2003/reg4086.html

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Reporters without Borders Annual Report 2008 Asia-Pacific

The report includes surveys of press freedom in every region of the world over the past year and chapters on 98 countries, including European Union members and the United States. The report's introduction lists problems expected in the coming year, especially physical attacks on journalists during key elections in Pakistan (18 February), Russia (2 March), Iran (14 March) and Zimbabwe (29 March) (Reporters without Borders, February 2008).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Report%20ASIA.pdf

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TUVALU: New PM vows to lift restrictions on media freedom

Tuvalu's new prime minister has vowed to lift what he says have been restrictions on press freedom in the country. Apisai Ielemia has accused the previous government of gagging the media, especially the government-run Radio Tuvalu. Mr Ielemia has just taken over as prime minister after an election which saw almost all ministers in the previous government thrown out of Parliament. He says there will be some immediate changes in government transparency. (ABC Pacific Beat, 17 August 2006)

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/s1716937.htm

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