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Legends of NFIP: Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism

Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), has produced...

From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific

In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since...

Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years in politics

By Patrick Decloitre French Polynesia’s veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his...

A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined...

Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a beacon

Professor Vijay Naidu’s speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the...

531pi’s Ma’a Brian Sagala talks nuclear-free Pacific with David Robie

Pacific Media Watch Radio 531pi Breakfast Talanoa host Ma'a Brian Sagala talks about the Rarotonga Treaty with Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie. The treaty...

Asia Pacific Report: A New Zealand nonprofit journalism model for campus-based social justice media

By David Robie For 13 years (2007-2020), the Pacific Media Centre research and publication unit at Auckland University of Technology published journalism with an "activist"...

Pacific media freedom under greater attack than ever

By Samisoni Pareti in Suva With the trial of three newspaper executives underway in Fiji in May on charges of sedition, the assault of a...

Media freedom under attack in the Pacific

By Samisoni Pareti in Suva With the trial of three newspaper executives underway in Fiji in May on charges of sedition, the assault of a...

Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?

Pacific Media Watch Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -- this...

Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’

REVIEWS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth “coup...