Pacific Journalism Review (Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology)
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The copyright law and Papua New Guinea
Get PDFPapua New Guineans would not be impressed by fancy arguments advanced elsewhere —that it is immoral to copy somebody else's work and that a country should adopt copyright laws to enhance its international standing
People, News and Government
No full textLike all rights and freedoms, freedom of the press sometimes gets a rough handling by various authorities and governments throughout the world. In the Pacific, the right must be preserved for the interests of the people
Regional conflicts: getting both sides
Get PDFHow well has the mass media in the South Pacific fared covering military, social and political conflicts in the region— such as Bougainville? What are the problems encountered by journalists covering such disputes
FORUM: Give 'new kid on the block' a fair chance
No full textJournalism lecturer Sorariba Nash's article, A free Ride to Propaganda, in PJR #1(1) is an example of blind, steel-trap tenacity. - Letters by Henry Chang (PNG), The National (Australia), Peter Cronau (Australia), David Ingram (Australia), and Suzanne Layton (Australia
Self-censorship: the most insidious gag
No full textJournalists feel the pressures to conform to the accepted values of their workplace. But those values come not just from editors and producers above them, but significantly from the journalists' peers—their fellow journalists
A blurred and distorted view of PNG
Get PDFSome "mischievous" news media do not present a full portrait based on real life in Papua New Guinea but a caricature— without the humour of a cartoon— which too often misses the point. 
A photographer's date with a nuclear death
Get PDFPresident Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And dilemmas for journalists covering the riots in Papeete and the junkets by French authorities. The Vanuatu government banned news reports on protests. A journalist on board the original environmental campaign ship Rainbow Warrior -- bombed by French secret agents a decade ago -- recalls the events. He was later arrested by the French military
REVIEW: Vibrant, stimulating view of region's nationalism, media: Review of: Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific, by David Robie
No full textReview of: Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific, by David Robie. London, Zed Books, 1989; Sydney: Pluto Press, 1990; Manila: Malaya Books, 1991.
Events in recent years in the South Pacific have dispelled hitherto widely held perceptions of the region as a peacefully modernising backwater of traditional societies. In particular, the 1987 coups in Fiji galvanised the attention of politicians and academics. But in truth, this was just one of a series of crises besetting South Pacific island states. David Robie's Blood on their Banner goes beyond the many accounts focusing on the Fiji coups to link together a range of events under the rubric of responses to colonialism and the emergence of Pacific nationalism. His credentials for doing this are excellent
REVIEW: Independent news champion of the developing world: Book review of News on a knife-edge by Richard Bourne.
No full textReview of News on a Knife-edge: Gemini Journalism and a Global Agenda by Richard Bourne. London: John Libbey.
'Biafra is dying bloodily and terror stricken. The triumphant Nigerian Army is advancing into the chaotic heart of General Ojukwu's breakaway country. The demoralised Biafran Army has been stunned by the blitz-krieg onslaught mounted by the Federal forces and now offering little resistance and feeling.