Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
Media and cultural diversity
The Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa is a peer-reviewed journal examining media issues and communication in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. Founded by Professor David Robie in 1994 at the University of Papua New Guinea, it was later published at the University of the South Pacific. PJR was published between 2007 and 2020 by the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology. From 2021 it is being published by Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa Incorporated in association with Tuwhera Publishing at AUT and the University of the South Pacific Journalism Programme. PJR is a ranked journal with DOAJ, SCOPUS metrics and Web of Science. The journal has published 465 double blind peer-reviewed research articles and has 2586 citations (Source: Typeset.io, 2022).
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Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza
11-07-2024
Pacific Journalism Review
Pacific Journalism Review celebrates 30 years of publishing at the Pacific InternatIonal Media Conference in Fiji . . . Professor Vijay Naidu (from left), Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad and founding editor Dr David Robie. Image: Del Abcede/APMN
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Current Issue
Vol. 30 No. 1and2 (2024): Gaza, genocide and media - PJR 30 years on, special double edition
Published:01-07-2024
Edition editors: David Robie and Philip Cass
When editor Philip Cass and I, as founding editor, started planning for this 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review, we wanted a theme that would fit such an important milestone. At the time when we celebrated the second decade of the journal’s critical inquiry at Auckland University of Technology with a conference in 2014, our theme was ‘Political journalism in the Asia Pacific’, and our mood about the mediascape in the region was far more positive than it is today (Duffield, 2015). Three years later, we marked the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre, with a conference and a rather gloomier ‘Journalism under duress’ slogan. The PJR cover then featured a gruesome corpse at the height of Rodrigo Duterte’s callous and bloodthirsty ‘war on drugs’—and on media—in the Philippines. Three years later again the PMC itself had been closed in spite of its success.
In the middle of last year when we settled on a call for papers for PJR with the theme ‘Will journalism survive?’ we seemed to be on the right track given the post-COVID-19 pandemic surge of conspiracy theories and disinformation, Trumpian fake news and assault on democracy, and a disturbing global decline in public confidence and trust in mainstream media. The profession of journalism was and remains under grave threat.
However, little did we reckon on 7 October 2023 and the fact that the world would be thrown into such a dystopian upheaval as a result of a surprise and extraordinarily daring attack on Israel by Hamas resistance fighters breaking out of Gaza, the world’s ‘largest open-air prison’.
EDITORIAL NOTE: After the editorial of Pacific Journalism Review and the lead article in this edition (Vol 30, No 1&2) about the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were printed, he was set free and he arrived back in Australia after a plea bargain.
Editor: Philip Cass
Founding and production editor: David Robie
Frontline editor: Wendy Bacon
Assistant editors: Khairiah A. Rahman, Nicole Gooch
Reviews editor: Philip Cass
Online edition editor: David Robie
Designer: Del Abcede
Proof readers: Linnéa Eltes
Cover design: Del Abcede
Cover photo: David Robie
Tuwhera OJS online support: Donna Coventry and Sophie Baker
Print edition: PinkLime
Editorial
EDITORIAL: Gaza, genocide and media: Will journalism survive?
David Robie
7-12
Articles (Themed)
War on Palestine: How the fates of Gaza and Julian Assange are sealed together
Jonathan Cook
14-21
Israel’s war on journalism: A Kiwi journalist’s response
Jeremy Rose
23-27
Legacy media outlets also stand in dock over Gaza: How RNZ, ABC and other Western media failed to challenge Israeli war narratives
Mick Hall
28-47
Articles
Fact check: Still not core journalism curriculumReport from WJEC Roundtable
Alexandra Nicole Wake, Gordon Farrer, Sonny Thomas
48-62
After the killing fields: Post-pandemic changes in journalism employment in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
John co*kley, Peter Chen, Joanna Beresford, Alexis Bundy
63-79
When safe is not enough: an exploration of improving guidelines on reporting mental illness and suicide
Jane Stephens, Helen M. Stallman
81-95
Artificial intelligence (AI) and future newsrooms: A study on journalists of Bangladesh
Sanjoy Basak Partha, Maliha Tabassum, Md. Ashraful Goni , Priyanka Kundu
96-110
A (non) agenda setting study: News coverage of electric vehicles and their popularity in Aotearoa New Zealand
Linda-Jean Kenix, Jorge Bolanos
111-125
The morals that shape the news: A study of Aotearoa New Zealand’s newsrooms
Federico Magrin
126-138
Social media ecology in an influencer group: Intersection between Fiji's media and social media
Jope Tarai
140-151
Commentaries
Documenting hidden apartheid in the Indian diaspora
Mandrika Rupa
152-159
Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle
Eugene Doyle
160-165
Frontline
Challenges for campus and community media in Asia-Pacific diversityINTRODUCTION
David Robie, Kalinga Seneviratne, Shailendra Singh
166-170
Media plurality, independence and Talanoa: An alternative Pacific journalism education model
David Robie
171-188
Nurturing resilient journalists: A Fiji case study of student news reporting in challenging Pacific environments
Shailendra Singh, Geraldine Panapasa
189-204
Time to rethink 'watchdog' journalism in the Pacific
Kalinga Seneviratne
205-216
Photoessay
Challenging the Pacific ‘blind spots’ through images
David Robie, Del Abcede
217-239
Obituary
OBITUARY: John Pilger, a 'maverick' globe-spanning journalist 9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023
John Jiggens
240-245
OBITUARY: Arnold Clemens Ap: His West Papuan legacy lives on1 July 1946 - 26 April 1984
Nic Maclellan
246-250
Reviews
REVIEW: A grim year ahead, but some cause for optimismReview of Reuters Trends and Predictions 2024, by Nic Newman
Philip Cass
253-255
REVIEW: Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repressionReview of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world, by Antony Loewenstein
David Robie
256-261
REVIEW: Even amidst the pain, author manages to show kindnessA review of Excommunicated. A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren, by Craig Hoyle
Annie Cass
262-263
REVIEW: Story of Rabaul eruptions has lessons for wider PacificReview of Return to Volcano Town: Reassessing the 1937-43 volcanic eruptions at Rabaul, by R. Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall (editors)
Philip Cass
264-266
REVIEW: Contrasting Al Jazeera’s forensic October 7 report with TVNZ’s Tame interviewReview of October 7 (Documentary), directed by Richard Sanders; and Israeli-Hamas War: Israeli Ambassador on rising deaths in Gaza (Video), presented by Jack Tame
Malcolm Evans
267-269
REVIEW: Defending the right to confidential sources and whistleblowersReview of Journalists and Confidential Sources: Colliding Public Interests in the Age of the Leak, by Joseph M. Fernandez
David Robie
270-273
REVIEW: Noted: Planning for the survival of megacitiesReview of Come Hell and High Fever, by Russell W. Glen
Philip Cass
273-274
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Print ISSN: 1023-9499
Online ISSN: 2324-2035
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