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Spreading (dis)trust in Fiji? Exploring COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook forums Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Romitesh Kant,Rufino Varea
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant challenges for the health system across the globe and fueled the surge of numerous rumours, hoaxes, and misinformation regarding outcomes, prevention and cure of the virus. The COVID-19 pandemic has also had severe political, economic and societal effects and affected media and communication systems in unprecedented ways. While traditional journalism has
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Papua and the public: News framing of the 2019 Asrama Papua conflict Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Annisa Nadia Putri Harsa,Lily El Ferawati Rofil
The 2019 Asrama Papua conflict in Surabaya initiated many discourses on racial discrimination and police brutality towards Papuan students in Indonesia. The question arises as to how the public perceive news framing and its effects on public opinion. This question will be answered by examining reports in the newspapers Kompas (published in Jakarta) and Jubi (Jayapura, Papua) which display quite different
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Building independent media: Sustaining democratic freedoms Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Lee Duffield
This article examines trends in new media journalism, identifying an independent sector which began to emerge with the internet circa 2000. It finds that publications from initially single-person start-ups like Crikey, to the large circulation New Daily, have proved viable and durable, providing alternatives to mainstream print and broadcast media. They have specialised in politics while publishing
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Watchdogs under pressure: Pacific Islands journalists’ demographic profiles and professional views Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Shailendra Bahadur Singh,Folker Hanusch
While global scholarship on journalists’ professional views has expanded tremendously over recent decades, the Pacific Islands remains somewhat of a blind spot, with only sporadic research. To address this gap in our knowledge, this study reports the results of a comprehensive survey of 206 Pacific Islands journalists in nine countries, providing a much-needed update of journalists’ demographic profiles
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The making of Ophir - Bougainville stories and silences: An exploration of the documentary Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Wendy Bacon,Nicole Gooch
This article focuses on the making of the award-winning film Ophir in the context of issues relevant to journalism and documentary production. It explores how a partnership of filmmakers, scholars and Bougainvillean community leaders worked to create a documentary that goes beyond bare facts to create deeper meaning. Based on an interview with one of the filmmakers, Olivier Pollet, it discusses issues
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Crisis communication and COVID-19: Covering two Pacific tragedies with storytelling Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 David Robie
Frontline journalism in the age of COVID-19 has posed particular challenges in dealing with personal risk, tackling an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation, and providing valuable news that can be used in vulnerable Pacific countries that have struggled with soaring infections and limited health infrastructure and resources. Five Pacific countries or territories have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic—Fiji
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REVIEW: No return to ‘normal’ when the pandemic has exposed global inequalities Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Krishan Dutta
COVID-19, Racism and Politicization: Media in the Midst of a Pandemic, edited by Kalinga Seneviratne and Sundeep R. Muppidi. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2021. 230 pages. ISBN: 9781527570894 WHILE the COVID-19 pandemic’s relentless cyclone continues across the globe wreaking havoc on economies and social systems, this book sheds light on the adversarial reporting culture
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REVIEW: Noted: Destructive pandemic impact on Global South media Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Lee Duffield
The Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Emerging Economies and the Global South, by Damian Radcliffe. London: Thomson Reuters Foundation. 2021. 142 pages. A NEW publication from the Thomson Reuters Foundation reviews the impacts of COVID-19 on journalism in Emerging Economies and the ‘Global South’. Working on the premise that media and journalism in these regions already face even greater challenges
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The journalist’s ‘toolbox’ of competencies in the Digital-Global Age: Reflections on the global state of research Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Pauline Gidget Estella
The different crises that journalism continues to face worldwide make it imperative to talk about the journalist’s ‘toolbox’, a set of competencies that journalists must have in this so-called age of disruption. This article maps the global state of research on journalistic competence, offers ways of conceptualising journalistic competencies and provides the necessary context by which the development
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A meta-analysis of hate speech in Indonesia: The yielding of an academic discourse to the discourse of authority Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Justito Adiprasetio,Detta Rahmawan,Kunto Adi Wibowo
This article focuses on academic publication on hate speech within Indonesia’s scholarly context. The authors analyse the ongoing discourse on hate speech by conducting a meta-analysis method on Garuda, an official website designed for repository of scholarly publications in Indonesia. By examined 143 scientific articles, this study found that most studies refer to the definition of hate speech from
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The COVID-19 pandemic: Resilience of Indonesian journalists Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Gilang Desti Parahita
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the global news industry to adapt to the current crisis. In some Global South countries, challenges have also come from an existing political instability and economic limitations. Indonesia represents a Global South country where its journalists have struggled to maintain the quality of news while many have faced layoffs. This research involved a survey data with 100
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Digital divide: Mobile internet speeds in the Pacific Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Amanda H A Watson,Rohan Fox
This article outlines mobile internet speeds experienced by 15 smartphone users in the Pacific region. It presents new quantitative data collected over a six-month-long period. The data were collected in order to provide a comparison of places and to look for trends over time. The research was adjusted for confounding factors like weather and building type. The findings indicate substantial differences
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Strings attached: New Zealand’s climate aid in the South Pacific Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Matthew Scott
Commentary: Throughout New Zealand’s history, the nation has maintained a close and privileged relationship with its island neighbours in the South Pacific, exemplified by centuries of trade and migration. As the effects of climate change encroach on South Pacific nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, New Zealand has implemented an aid programme via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Manus to Meanjin: A case study of refugee migration, polymorphic borders and Australian ‘imperialism’ Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Kasun Ubayasiri
This non-traditional research article argues that the refugee and asylum-seeker protests in Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point between April 2, 2020 and April 14, 2021 can be viewed against a backdrop of Australian colonialism—where successive Australian governments have used former colonies in Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea as offshore detention facilities—as a dumping ground for asylum-seekers
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REVIEW: Like the pandemic, climate action is urgent Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 David Robie
Climate Aotearoa: What’s happening and what we can do about it, edited by Helen Clark. Auckland: Allen & Unwin, 2021. 327 pages. ISBN 9781988547633 WHEN the publication of Climate Aotearoa was heralded by Radio New Zealand in April 2021 it was featured along with a striking image and a quote from the collection editor, former prime minister Helen Clark. The illustration by Vinay Ranchhod was a dazzling
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Taliban takeover: Charlotte Bellis faces perils outside ‘enemy territory’ Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Gavin Ellis
New Zealand-born Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett was one of a handful of journalists allowed to stay in Baghdad as the American offensive against Iraq began in 1991. Reporting first from the rooftop of the Al-Rashid Hotel, he chronicled—quite literally – the impact of the bombing campaign. But on Day Four he was taken to a bombed-out building in a suburb that was then an infant milk
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REVIEW: Ophir: Bougainville's epic struggle for freedom Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Catherine Wilson
Ophir: Decolonize. Revolutionize, directed by Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet. Arsam International/Fourth World Films/Ulster University. 2020. 97 minutes. https://www.ophir-film.com/ IN OPHIR (2020), a feature length documentary film about the Bougainville civil war (1989-1998), French filmmakers Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet analyse the devastating conflict and under-reported repercussions
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REVIEW: Tears flow as redundancy stories spell end to journalism’s heyday Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Alexandra Wake
Upheaval: Disrupted Lives in Journalism, edited by Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson. Sydney: UNSW Press. 2021. 368 pages, ISBN 9781742237275 I DOUBT there is anyone who has worked—or currently works—in journalism that would not have tears rolling down their cheeks as they read the stories of redundancy within Australia’s faltering news industry in this carefully edited collection. That’s not to say
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COVID-19 vaccine online misinformation in Fiji: Preliminary findings Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Romitesh Kant,Rufino Varea,Jason Titifanue
Digital media, opens a vast array of avenues for lay people to effectively engage with news, information and debates about important science and health issues. However, they have also become a fertile ground for various stakeholders to spread misinformation and disinformation, stimulate uncivil discussions and engender ill-informed, dangerous public decisions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, antivaccination
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The role of collaborative journalism in West Papua: A Jubi and Tirto case study Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Ana Nadhya Abrar
In this article, the author explores the collaboration between Tirto and Jubi in reporting on the Wamena and Jayapura riots in September 2019 in what has been described as the Papuan Uprising. The collaboration was greatly influenced by the desire of both media to improve the quality of news on human rights violations in West Papua. Tirto is an Indonesian online media outlet. Its journalists often
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The weather is never neutral: Then and now Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Jeremy Rees
Reporting on the weather may seem at first glance to be a very light story, but it can actually be a serious reflection of how we see ourselves and our changing perception of the world. In 1996, the author embarked on a light-hearted survey of 23 daily papers to find what New Zealand newspapers’ weather reports said about their attitudes to the world. In the middle of the 2020 COVID lockdown he re-ran
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REVIEW: Truly critical and honest appraisals of The Guardian’s record as a guardian of power still needed Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 David Edwards
Capitalism’s Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian, edited by Des Freedman. London: Pluto Press. 2021, 320 pages. ISBN 9780745343341; 9780745343358 A collection of essays, Capitalism’s Conscience—200 Years of the Guardian, has been recently published. Edited by Des Freedman, professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, the volume notes that Guardian editor Kath Viner promised
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'I want to buy my own block of land': Representation of urban settlement communities in Papua New Guinea Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Wilma Molus,Verena Thomas,Jackie Kauli,Laurie Buys
Urban settlements are home to around half the urban population of Papua New Guinea. Since the end of the Second World War, PNG towns and cities have experienced significant growth of urban settlements. Urban dwellings were established on customary and untransformed state lands. With limited support for services from government, informal settlements in the urban landscape have often been perceived from
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REVIEW: Moruroa Files: The files, the book and the lies Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Ena Manuireva
Toxique: Enquête sur les essais nucléaires français en Polynésie, by Sébastien Philippe and Tomas Statius, and the Moruroa Files microsite. Paris: PUF/Disclose, 2021. 192 pages. ISBN 9782130814849https://moruroa-files.org/ THE COMBINATION of nuclear expertise (Sebastien Philippe), inquisitive journalism (Tomas Statius) and the investigative approach by Interprt (a collective of architects specialising
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REVIEW: New book explores never-ending Chamberlain saga Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Philip Cass
Feral Media: The Chamberlain Case 40 years On, by Belinda Middleweek. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly, 2021. 188 pages. ISBN 9781922454454. I HAVE only seen the Rock once and that was on a junket with TAA, flying a bunch of journos from a week in Perth back to Townsville via the Alice and Darwin. Our 727 circled in a banking turn over the big red monolith to give us all a good look. I never had
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REVIEW: Noted: Entire region ignored by UNESCO manual Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Philip Cass
Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Handbook for Journalism Educators. Paris: UNESCO, 2019. 304 pages. ISBN 9789231004568 WHILE this book will be of immense benefit to anybody teaching about the broader issues of immigration and trying to train journalists and journalism students to write on the topic with more understanding, it is a pity that it so effectively ignores the Pacific. This book has some
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EDITORIAL: COVID is still with us Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Philip Cass
In last year’s final edition we joked that we would eventually come to use BC to stand for Before COVID and AD for After the Donald. Well, Donald Trump is out of office, but COVID-19 is still with us, laying waste to countries, engendering all sorts of insane conspiracy theories and threatening the lives of journalists trying to cover the pandemic.
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EDITORIAL: Under the pandemic siege Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Philip Cass,David Robie
It is possible that future generations will think that BC stands for Before Coronavirus—and possibly that AD stands for After the Donald. All joking aside, here in Aotearoa New Zealand we have been far luckier than most countries, with early and decisive action by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her advisers rapidly bringing the pandemic threat under control. Several Island nations remain COVID-free
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REVIEW: Exposing reality about the mythic ‘age of truth’ Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 David Robie
Myth of ‘Free Media’ and Fake News in the Post-truth Era, by Kalinga Seneviratne. New Delhi, India: Sage. 2020, 348 pages. ISBN 9789353881276 Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia, edited by Kalinga Seneviratne. New Delhi, India: Sage: 2018, 353 pages. ISBN 9789352805518 POST-TRUTH? Was there ever really such a thing as the Golden Age of Truth as trumpeted by the
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REVIEW: Noted: Lockdown sanity and survival in the age of Zoom Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Tony Clear
Lockdown Lawyers: A Collection of COVID-19 Poetry, edited by Emma Trevett and Jon Whitfield, QC. London, UK: Legal Action Group. 2020, 96 pages. 978-1-913648-00-8 I ACCEPTED the invitation from my son-in-law (a barrister in London) to contribute to this anthology, with an antipodean poem I had written reflecting on COVID-19 and ANZAC day 'They shall grow…'. When the anthology, commissioned as a fundraiser
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Micro-celebrity participation and risk communication in Indonesia Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Lidwina Mutia Sadasri
Information dissemination in the media, specifically social media, is one of the critical channels of information related to the COVID-19 outbreak sought by the public. The information presented has been related to accurate and reliable situation reports and false information in various forms, not only text-based but also audio and visual. The chaos of data, coupled with a central response that seemed
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The political affordances of the ‘coconut wireless’: Rotumans on social media in the 2018 Fiji elections Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Rufino Varea,Jason Titifanue,Romitesh Kant,Renata Varea
As a unique group of people, Rotumans make up less than two percent of Fiji’s population, and as a minority Indigenous ethnic group in Fiji, they have remained relatively hidden and silent in political affairs. Outmigration from the island has led to more than 80 percent of Rotumans residing outside of Rotuma. In recent times, the Rotuman diaspora has heavily relied on the use of ICTs and new media
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FRONTLINE: The nexus of political documentary and alternative journalism Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Norman Zafra
This article is a critical commentary of how political documentary embodies the traits and functions of alternative journalism. I explore this notion through Obrero (‘worker’) my independent documentary project about the labour migration of Filipino workers to Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, after the earthquake in 2011. This article maps out the points at where the theories and practices of alternative
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The ebb and flow of ‘eve-teasing’ in the news: Front page coverage of street harassment of women in Bangladesh Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Rajoanna Mowly,Nasya Bahfen
Eve-teasing is a euphemism for street-based sexual harassment, which is a widespread issue across Bangladesh affecting the emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing of Bangladeshi women. The media can play a vital role by covering news and raising awareness of eve-teasing. Historically, the headlines in Bangladesh focused on more obvert forms of gender violence—rape, murder, acid attacks—framing eve-teasing
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FRONTLINE: Jill Emberson: A lifetime of bearing witness to help others Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Wendy Bacon
Jill Emberson, an award-winning Australian journalist of Tongan heritage died in 2019. She achieved national attention for her campaign to provide a voice for all women suffering from ovarian cancer and for more and fairer funding for ovarian cancer research. Through an analysis of her programmes and interviews with colleagues, this article focuses on Emberson’s journalism from daily news coverage
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REVIEW: Bookshelf: Reading something as flimsy as a novel Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Michael Field
In this section of Pacific Journalism Review we ask our regular contributors to pick three books that have played an important part of their academic, professional or writing lives. In this issue, the selection is by veteran Pacific affairs reporter MICHAEL FIELD. Tales of the Tikongs, by Epeli Hau’ofa. Honolulu, US: University of Hawai’i Press. 1994. 104 pages. ISBN 9780824815943. Man Alone, by John
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REVIEW: New paradigms plus technology could change the way we report on race Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Lee Duffield
Reporting on Race in a Digital Era, by Carolyn Nielsen. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. xiii, 236 pages. ISBN 978-3-030-35220-2/ISBN 978-3-030-35221-9 (eBook) CAROLYN NIELSEN has proposed a role for journalism in resolving political oppression, offering a case study on the crisis surrounding street killings of African Americans by police. This United States journalism academic provides a review
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Journalism competence and the COVID-19 crisis in Southeast Asia Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Pauline Gidget Estella
The COVID-19 crisis across the world has posed a daunting challenge to journalism as a discipline. Indeed, how the journalism profession performs at this time could have game-changing implications on its already beleaguered role as a source of information in society. This article deals with the subject of journalistic competencies necessary in such crisis times, when interpreting and disseminating
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Under the shadow of the state: Media framing of attacks on West Papuan students on Indonesian online media Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Justito Adiprasetio
The attack on the West Papua student dormitory in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, on 16 August 2019 by the Islamic Defender Fronts (FPI), Communication Forum for Retired Children of the Indonesian Military/Police (FKPPI) and Pancasila Youth (PP) sharpened Indonesia’s crisis with West Papua. The baldly racist attack then ignited repression, as well as demonstrations from West Papuans in various cities
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Injustice versus insecurity: Climate-induced displacement in the Fijian and New Zealand public discourses Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Akhteruz Zaman,Jahnnabi Das
Debate surrounding climate-induced displacement has attracted considerable critical attention in recent years. This debate has engendered diverse perspectives including the North-South divide, solidarity with affected people and climate justice. In this study, the authors consider how various policy advocates have attempted to influence public discourses about climate displacement in Oceania. Using
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Coping with change in India’s media: Struggles of English-language journalists in an evolving mediascape Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Levi Obijiofor,Shailendra B. Singh
In recent times, journalism, worldwide, has been undergoing significant changes. Some of the major revolutions have occurred in India, the world’s largest democracy. The size and face of Indian news media have seen rapid transformations owing to major economic, technological, and political developments in the country in recent decades. The focus of this research is on how India’s English-language media
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Media representation of environmental issues in Malaysia Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad Saleh,Harald Heinrichs
This research aims to discover the types of environment issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) newsletters, and to examine the factors in the selection of environmental issues by both social actors. Two methods were employed for the purpose of this study. First, a quantitative content analysis were conducted on 2,050 environmental articles
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The politics of local government environmental evaluations: Assessing bureaucracy in post-Reformasi Indonesia Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Laila Alfirdaus,S. Rouli Manalu
This article argues that bureaucracy plays politics in Indonesia, not only during the electoral periods, but also in public service. Using the case of environmental evaluation in local government, where natural resources comprise most of the local economy, this article discusses the politics of bureaucracy in undergoing daily governing processes. The environment and natural resource businesses are
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FRONTLINE: Gentle sounds, distant roar: a watershed year for journalism as research Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Chris Nash
The Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) 2020 decision on disciplinary categories has profound implications for journalism as a research discipline. Journalism Practice and Professional Writing retain their six-digit Fields of Research (FoR) code within the Creative Arts and Writing Division, a new six-digit FoR of Journalism Studies has been created in the Division
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REVIEW: Lively account of the Middle East conflict Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 John Minto
Dances With Death – Perilous Encounters Reporting on Hostilities in the Turbulent Middle East, by Tuma Hazou. Auckland, NZ: Tuma Hazou. 2020, 148 pages. 978-0-473-50605-6 DANCES with Death is an extraordinary personal account of Palestinian journalist Tuma Hazou’s experiences from a 40-year journalism career mostly spent reporting from the war-ravaged Middle East. As a young Palestinian, Tuma was accepted
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REVIEW: Noted: Fix the system before it’s too late Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Philip Cass
The Broken Estate: Journalism and Democracy in a Post-Truth World, by Mel Bunce. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2019. 224 pages. ISBN 9780947518356 NEW ZEALAND has probably the worst television systems of any OECD nation, media ownership so concentrated that there is only one truly independent newspaper left, plummeting readership levels and almost insuperable economic challenges. And yet, as
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REVIEW: Media must build and retain trust Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Philip Cass
A Day Like Today, by John Humphrys. London, UK: William Collins, 2019. 400 pages. ISBN 9780007415595 400pp. JOHN HUMPHRYS will be less well known outside the UK than his contemporary from BBC World, John Simpson, but his autobiography is an entertaining and informative recounting of his career and well worth reading. For more than three decades he presided over BBC Radio 4’s flagship early morning
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The discourse of climate migration: Unravelling the politics of ASEAN’s environmental policies Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Anggita Marthin,Louis Budiman
Climate change has inevitably created impacts globally ranging from regulatory changes to affecting social communities. Among these impacts, climate migration becomes the unprecedented and significant one. Millions of migrants are environmentally displaced and the Southeast Asia region is noted as one critical hotspot of the movement. This issue presents challenges for the Association of Southeast
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FRONTLINE: The sociology of a pandemic: Countering a COVID 'disinfodemic' with a campus media initiative Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 David Robie,Sri Krishnamurthi
Parallel with the global spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a dangerous ‘disinfodemic’ has been infecting the flow of information worldwide. Communication and media outlets have faced a new challenge with not only being responsible for reportage and analysis of a fast-moving public health emergency—the biggest this century, but forced to sift through the mass circulation of falsehoods that have
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Reporting Black Lives Matters: Deaths in custody journalism in Australia Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Bonita Mason
George Floyd’s death at the knee of USA police sparked protests and renewed reporting of Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia. As the 30th anniversary of the release of the final report of the Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody approaches, it is timely to update Wendy Bacon’s 2005 research on deaths in custody journalism. While most deaths in custody continue to pass
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A common conception of justice underlies Pacific churches’ message on climate change Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Philip Cass
This article presents an overview of the role mainstream churches can play in mitigating the climate change crisis in the Pacific and their role in facilitating climate induced migration. It builds on earlier work by the author (Cass, 2018; 2020) with a focus on Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea. Both Catholic and Protestant churches share a concern for the future of the planet based on the principles
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Reversing silences in West Papua: Interdisciplinary research and (audio) documentary Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Belinda Lopez
Journalism about West Papua is in many ways an act of translation. It involves not only translating between languages, but also disciplines, audiences and knowledges. This article examines how interdisciplinary research—such as anthropology and history— might intersect with journalism as a means to understand and challenge existing gaps in translation, or ‘silences’ about West Papua in the past and
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Solidarity statement by academics attending MMFF Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Melanesia Media Freedom Forum
Delegates to the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum express their solidarity with media workers in Melanesia in their struggle for freedom of expression, security, and professional recognition. Delegates note the words of Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Dame Meg Taylor who told the Asia Lecture at Griffith University, Brisbane, on 11 November 2019: ‘We live in unprecedented times of change
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REVIEW: Noted: Study of diasporic film making raises intriguing questions Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Philip Cass
Migrant and Diasporic Film and Filmmaking in New Zealand, edited by Arezou Zalipour. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2019. 209 pages. ISBN 9789811313783. IF PEOPLE think about diasporic cinema in New Zealand, they probably think about comedies like Sione’s Wedding or Curry Munchers or web series like Flat3. What they all have in common is an attempt to portray different aspects of a particular diasporic
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REVIEW: Noted: Building bridges for climate change science Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Philip Cass
Science Writing and Climate Change, by Crispin C.Maslog, David Robie and Joel Adriano. Manila, Philippines: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication, 2019. 106 pages. ISBN 9789718502198 DESPITE the omnipresent threat of climate change, journalists still face an uphill battle communicating accurate and timely information to the public and governments, many of whom, sadly, still need to be convinced
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REVIEW: Bookshelf: Guide to best practice journalism in the future Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Lee Duffield
IN THIS edition of Pacific Journalism Review we begin a new section, Bookshelf, where we ask our regular contributors to pick three books that have played an important part of their academic, professional and writing lives. We begin with this selection by retired journalism academic, blogger and regular contributor to these pages, LEE DUFFIELD. SuperMedia: Saving Journalism so it can Save the World
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PREVIEW: Tonga needs Pōhiva’s message so kingdom can move forward Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Philip Cass,Michael Field
THE LATE Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva was a clear visioned man whose message was still current, according to veteran Pacific journalist Michael Field. Field, who is writing a biography of Pōhiva, says a book about his life will be useful to the kingdom. Tongans needed Pōhiva’s message, he said (Field, 2020).
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REVIEW: West Papua’s highway of blood and betrayal Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 David Robie
The Road: Uprising in West Papua, by John Martinkus. Carlton, Vic: Black Books Inc. 2020. 114 pages. 978-1-760-64242-6 The rugged mountainous highlands of New Guinea stretch from the Owen Stanley range in the east of the independent state of Papua New Guinea through the Star mountains straddling the border with Indonesian-ruled West Papua westwards through the perpetually snow-capped Puncak Jaya, at
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REVIEW: The sacking of an editor Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Jeremy Rees
Commentary: On 25 July 1972, the Board of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation decided to terminate the editorship of Alexander MacLeod with three months' pay, effective immediately. The Listener had only had three editors since its launch as a broadcasting guide in 1939. Its founder Oliver Duff and successor Monty Holcroft, the revered editor of 18 years, built it up as a magazine of culture,
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Mobile phone registration in Papua New Guinea: Will the benefits outweigh the drawbacks? Pacific Journalism Review Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Amanda Watson
Commentary: The government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has introduced a requirement for mobile phone registration. This commentary is a comprehensive analysis of the registration regulation, the process and key challenges. The paper is based on close observation of developments over several years, including attendance at court cases on the issue. The commentary includes: a description of the regulation