University student journalism from Australia, NZ and the Pacific.

The Junction
University student journalism from Australia, NZ and the Pacific.

The Junction
University student journalism from Australia, NZ and the Pacific.

The Junction
Auckland University of Technology

Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZ

AUT offers Journalism in the Bachelor of Communication Studies, a Postgrad Diploma & Masters and PhDs. The Pacific Media Centre has an Asia Pacific option. AUT publishes Asia Pacific Report & Te Waha Nui.

All content by Auckland University of Technology
Radio Tefana

Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru

Auckland University of Technology, Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala
November 25, 2020
Pacific climate defenders

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the Covid-19 pandemic

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
November 7, 2020
Collin Tukuitonga

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
September 9, 2020
Stephanie-Sageo-Tapungu

How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
August 16, 2020
Oscar Temaru

‘I bury people nearly every day, what was our sin?’

Auckland University of Technology, Matthew Scott
July 31, 2020
Lilo Ema Siope

Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the waka

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
July 27, 2020
Opening the door to Pacific environmental and climate change collaborations.

EJN teams up with PMC on new climate project

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
June 23, 2020
Stand With Pal

Students and staff delighted with reinstatement of USP’s Ahluwalia

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
June 23, 2020
Australian plan to bombard the Pacific with "irrelevant" Australian-made programmes like Neighbours.

Australian $17m ‘soft power’ TV push in Pacific misses mark

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
May 29, 2020
John Martinkus

Author warns West Papua conflict is ‘re-igniting’ with new weapons, youth

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
May 23, 2020
Stuff headquarters

Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over Stuff?

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
May 13, 2020
Student helpers in Lami

Solomon Islands students help Fiji cyclone victims

Auckland University of Technology, Ben Bilua
May 9, 2020
Cook Islands beach

Virus tourism collapse threatens poverty for many in Pacific

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 30, 2020
Rugby rivals with the future at stake ... challenger Argentina's Agustín Pichot (left) and the status quo chairman Bill Beaumont (England).

Pacific nations could hold sway in crucial World Rugby vote

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 25, 2020
Fiji health checks are ongoing around the country in an effort to combat Covid-19.

Three recover from COVID-19 in Fiji

Auckland University of Technology, Josefa Babitu
April 24, 2020

‘Stop, listen, Papatūānuku is breathing’

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 22, 2020
New Zealand audience and readership numbers “skyrocketing” because people need factual news, whether it is digital readership, broadcast or television, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 17, 2020
Josefa Babitu

Desperate times unleash digital creativity, flexibility for Pacific journalism schools

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 15, 2020
At Papamoa beach, near Tauranga, witnesses said large crowds were photographed with apparent disregard for the lockdown rules.

Selfish lockdown breaches cause headaches in Fiji, NZ

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 13, 2020
Bauer Media ... Covid-19 blamed for closure but claim disputed by critics.

NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 6, 2020
Bauer Media

Media suffer ‘devastating’ blows on both sides of the Tasman

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 3, 2020
PMC's weekly Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM ... with Sri Krishnamurthi, James Tapp and the Pacific Media Watch team.

Southern Cross:Community & local language papers in danger

Auckland University of Technology
April 3, 2020
Tagata Pasifika crew

Pacific governments ‘working better’ with creative media in pandemic

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
April 1, 2020
Residents of Tembagapura district in Mimika regency, Papua, wait to be evacuated by the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police personnel earlier this month.

Freeport shooting: A sad tragedy, but don’t overlook past Papua repression

Auckland University of Technology, Laurens Ikinia
April 1, 2020
Digital technology innovator Dr Anita Sands ... “humanity has created a puppet that now knows how to pull on the strings of its master.”

Global technology leader warns against ‘digital takeover’ of democracy

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
March 11, 2020
AAP newsroom

Loss of AAP newswire a tragedy for entire Pacific

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
March 4, 2020
My crooked face in 2016 a month after the stroke.

A broken body and mind, but not a shattered spirit

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
February 25, 2020

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
February 19, 2020
Dan McGarry ... devoted 16 years of his life to Vanuatu development.

Vanuatu Daily Post’s Dan McGarry ‘gutted’ over Vanuatu government blocking work permit

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
November 9, 2019

Hong Kong Protests Clip Reel from Hugh Bohane on Vimeo.

Special Report – The unmasking of Hong Kong

Auckland University of Technology, Video by Hugh Bohane
October 6, 2019
Andreas Harsono

Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
August 29, 2019
Ihumātao flag girl

The call of Ihumātao: Migrant communities standing with Māori

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
August 14, 2019
Journalist and documentary maker Blessen Tom ... two films produced this year, on climate change and media freedom in the Pacific. Image: Michael Andrew/PMC

Pacific documentaries, investigative journalism given midwinter showcase

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
August 4, 2019
West Papuan human rights defender Rosa Moiwend at the Pacific Media Centre this week with publications from the centre. Image: Del Abcede/PMC

West Papuan suffering will go on if we don’t take a stand, says Rosa

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
July 9, 2019
The Junction elections 2019

Student journos form ‘biggest newsroom’ to cover election

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
May 22, 2019
UN Secretary-General António Guterres with Climate Change Minister James Shaw ... “It is absolutely crucial to have the leadership of the youth”. Image: Michael Bradley/RNZ/PMC

UN Security-General tells youth be ‘noisy as possible’ on climate change

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
May 16, 2019
Journalism students Kirisitiana Uluwai (from left), Apenisa Vatuniveivuke and Eparama Warua engage with the audience during World Press Freedom Day celebrations at the University of the South Pacific’s in Suva yesterday. Wansolwara editor Rosalie Nongebatu was also on the panel but not in this picture.

Student journos call for quality, factual reporting in USP free media debate

Auckland University of Technology, Wansolwara Students in Suva
May 5, 2019
Solomon Islands police in riot gear during yesterday's post-election disturbances in Honiara.

‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of Honiara riots

Auckland University of Technology, Rosalie Nongebatu
April 25, 2019
Educate to Liberate curators Pauline Smith and Ari Edgecombe ... a window on the police and immigration crackdown on illegal "overstayers" in the 1970s. Image: Michael Andrew/PMW

Dawn Raids – Pasifika ‘liberated’ to talk about painful past

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
April 10, 2019
A voter casts his ballot during the 2019 Solomon Islands general election on Wednesday. Image: Island Sun/Wansolwara

Solomon Islands students ‘denied’ opportunity to vote in election

Auckland University of Technology, Rosalie Nongebatu
April 5, 2019
Cuba's Leima Freire speaking in Auckland on behalf of ICAP ... programmes "helping disadvantaged people". Image: Michael Andrew/PMC

Cuba boosting ‘Pacific connection’ in defiance of US blockade

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
April 5, 2019
Participants in Auckland's "Love not hate" rally last Sunday ... "understanding the voice, listening, using dialogue."

How journalists can improve diversity in our media

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
March 28, 2019
Omer Bin Nasir, a former journalist now AUT security guard and doctoral student ... "black Friday for Muslims ... but we now feel more secure living in New Zealand." Image: PMC/David Robie

Students on NZ massacre: ‘We want to stay as a country, unified, always’

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
March 22, 2019
Sasya Wreksono: "Thank you to my fellow Kiwis for their outpouring of support for the Muslim community, especially for those directly affected." Image: PMC/David Robie

We mourn, reflect and face up to NZ’s fragment of darkness

Auckland University of Technology, Sasya Wreksono
March 21, 2019
Hate speech ... “The problem of socially-conditioned hatred is so much larger and more intricate than the capacity of any sort of censorship to control it.” Image: PMC/David Robie

Online hate speech ‘gives green light’ to religion, race attacks

Auckland University of Technology, Michael Andrew
March 20, 2019

Reviving the ‘lost skills’ of traditional waka Pacific voyaging

Auckland University of Technology, Hele Ikimotu, Blessen Tom
February 24, 2019

Life on Fiji’s Rabi Island – simple, peaceful and full of smiles

Auckland University of Technology, Hele Ikimotu
January 24, 2019
APEC Haus ... Port Moresby's custom-designed convention centre especially built for the Asia-Pacific economic leaders' summit.

PNG’s post-APEC dream leaves rural sector behind

Auckland University of Technology, Pauline Mago-King
December 11, 2018
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama … reelected with easily the strongest personal vote in the Fiji general election but his FijiFirst party has lost ground since 2014.

2018 Fiji elections – ‘fake news’ fills media vacuum

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
November 24, 2018
The 1987 Fiji military coups leader Sitiveni Rabuka as he was back then

‘I was coerced into the 1987 coup,’ admits Sitiveni Rabuka

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
November 16, 2018
Fiji Media Industry Development Authority (MIDA) chair Ashwin Raj (left) and Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem at a press conference in Suva.

Fiji’s poll: fake news and social media trolls

Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
November 15, 2018
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