Pacific Journalism Review (Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology)
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TV talk in PNG: A search for policy in a weak state
Get PDFThe reasons for the nation-state's weakness are many, but the course of TV talk over the last 10 years in Papua New Guinea reveals one reason in particular: the sacrifice of long-term-state-building to the immediate demands of electoral strategy
SPICOL conference revisted
Get PDF"In theory it worked well, as the PO position has grown out of the recommendations of the firt SPICOL. In practice the theory has problems. Journalism students who set up times for the interviews often had to wait well beyond the set time for dignitaries to appear. Some of these officals have yet to meet journalists for the planned interviews..." 
Flosse appeals tribunal ruling lifting Radio Tefana ban
No full textFrench Polynesia's president Gaston Flosse has appealed against a decision by the territory's Administrative Tribunal in a bid to keep pro-independence journalists out of government press conferences
REVIEW: Turning point for France in the Pacific? Reviewed book by Nic Maclellan and Jean Chesneaux
No full textReview of After Moruroa: France in the South Pacific, by Nic Maclellan and Jean Chesneaux. Melbourne/New York: Oceania Press.
This is an up-to-date review of French social, political and enviromental, politics in the region during the past two centuries that should certainly teach, or at least challenge, any expert's knowledge on the issue. 
Is freedom of the Pacific press really free? MEDIA BUY OUTS 4
No full textThe sale of the Daily Post and the draconian decision by a Samoan court to gag the Observer are worrying developments for the Pacific news media.
Even if the Fiji Government upholds its promise to stay out of the Daily Post's day to day activities, as appears to be the case so far, the public can no longer have the same confidence in the impartiality of the newspaper after the state buy out. When it comes to "independence" two issues usually arise together: the need for independence and the need to be seen to be independent
Fiji TV's struggle for good service
Get PDFFiji TV has behaved in the fashion of most commercial broadcasters: it has sought popular programming, and it has built a respected independent news bulletin. But politicians want news that is Government public relations and "worthy" programming. 
Having fun playing God
Get PDFFiji lawyer Richard Naidu filed a personal judical review action against Fiji Islands Minister for Telecommunication Ratu Inoke Kubuabola's decision to direct Fiji TV to broadcast the Hongkong Sevens tournament live on Fiji One. The case for why the minister's direction ser a dangerous precendent. 
Post-Courier stays put: MEDIA BUY OUTS 7
No full textThe PNG Post-Courier is one of the most influential and independent newspapers in the South Pacific. Rumours of its likely sale to business and political interests close to Prime Minister Bill Skate stirred a recent controversy. 
Online journalism at USP
Get PDFThe universities of the South Pacific and Papua New Guinea have played pioneering roles in the development of media education resources in the South Pacific. One student training newspaper was the first online publication in the region and another, Wansolwara, was the first online newspaper in Fiji. 
REVIEW: From a Suva gossip column to Fleet Street: Reviewed book by Phillip Cass
No full textReview of A Hack's Progress, by Phillip Knightley. London: Vintage.
Knightley's book is self critical, especially about the value of his writing on the intelligence service during the Cold War and he refers to himself as "the world's worst war correspondent" for assuring his editor at the Sunday Times that there would be no war in the Middle East — on the eve of the Six Day War. For a journalist who has achieved so much prominence for his work as an investigative journalist for the quality British press and his subsequent books, Knightley appears to have been singularly uncertain about what he wanted to do for a living.