Communication Studies 2020 Awards
Director of Pacific Media Centre retires
The worlds first Islamic mindfulness app
Independent NZ media ownership booms
New Professors and Associate Professors
Professor gets horror studies editorship
Design & Creative Tech Postgrad Awards
Freemasons Scholarship recipients 2020
AUT launches new advertising campaign
PJR spotlights media strain in Melanesia
Technology, journalism and democracy
Filming Loimata a family affair
Can social media help combat racism?
Techweek 2020 AUT playlist launched
Turning the lens on Māori journalism
$10k climate and Covid-19 grant
Crisis, disintegration and hope
Documentary looks at Māori culture
Reframe your mindset during COVID-19
Pacific governments and media crackdown
Knowing ourselves through film
Why radio matters so much, 100 years on
Broadcasting sector in serious trouble
Keeping the waka moving forward
Say kia ora to the new Internz
Cookbook sales fund refugee scholarship
AUT a 5-star university across all categories
PR students help hundreds of non-profits
AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings
19 first in family scholarships awarded
Pacific Journalism Review turns 25
Kiwi to lead world journalism education body
AUT student receives NDF scholarship
Grace makes global Badass Women list
DCT confirms two new Heads of School
Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues
To build social cohesion, our screens need to show the same diversity of faces we see on the street
Pacific countries score well in media freedom index, but reality is far worse
62% increase in AUT researchers
Diversity celebrated at cookbook launch
Asia Pacific Report covers Christchurch
Farewell to Professor Ian Shirley
Celebrating AUT through the years
Gaining skills for the workplace
Newspapers shrink local news gaps widen
Professor reports on historic referendum
New Cookbook to fund scholarship fund
New Professors and Associate Professors announced
Minister launches sustainable blueprint
THE rankings place AUT in NZ top three
AUT 2019 domestic and international fees
Communications alumni reconnect with AUT
5 questions with Professor Wayne Hope
Marking World Press Freedom Day
AUT increases presence in QS subject rankings
Journalism under duress in the Asia-Pacific – PMC turns 10
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in an event next week marking its 10th anniversary.
AUT student shows spirit at the 2017 Attitude Awards
An AUT student has been heralded for her advocacy work at last week’s Attitude Awards.
Indonesian academic exchange an opportunity for unique collaboration
Pacific Media Centre Director, Professor David Robie will join academics from around the world in a global academic exchange with Indonesia's Universitas Gadjah Mada. In return, seven academics from the Indonesian university will visit AUT for the first communication and publication research collaboration of its kind in New Zealand.
Māori and Pacific Early Career Academic Programme
A new generation of Māori and Pacific lecturers is taking up residence at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
The 2018 Early Career Academic Programme offers up to six Māori and Pacific scholars their first, full-time, permanent appointments as research-active lecturers.
AUT alumna bound for The Happiest Place on Earth
AUT communications graduate, Molly Dagger, is heading to the U.S to take part in the annual Disney World Cultural Exchange Programme.
AUT student shortlisted for a Canon Media Award
An AUT student is in the running to win Student Journalist of the Year at this year's Canon Media Awards.
Pacific Journalism Review research - Journalists working harder, women disadvantaged
New Zealand journalists are working longer hours, and feeling more pressure, both ethically and resource-wise, than they were only two years ago, a new research survey has found.
AUT appoints new Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of DCT Faculty
Professor Guy Littlefair has been appointed by Auckland University of Technology (AUT) as the new Dean of its Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies (DCT) and Pro-Vice Chancellor. He will take up the position in July 2017.
Student documentaries featured on RNZ National
In early 2017, RNZ National featured a number of radio documentaries made by final-year Bachelor of Communication Studies students.
Exploring what it’s like to look for love as a 40-something year-old woman, a grandfather recovering from a stroke and the life of a bushman are just some of the stories made by AUT students.
Te Pou Tatau Pounamu NZ Peace Foundation award for Christina Milligan
Screen Production lecturer Christina Milligan was among the recipients at the Nga Aho Whakaari (Maori Film Practitioners) 20th Anniversary awards. Christina, director Kim Webby and coproducer Roger Grant received the Te Pou Tatau Pounamu NZ Peace Foundation award for “their contribution to peace and aroha”.
AUT student nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year
AUT Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies student Joshua Iosefo has been nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year at the New Zealander of the Year Awards.
World Journalism Congress at AUT
The CEO whose organisation stood behind the release of the Panama Papers will be a speaker at the World Journalism Congress to be held at AUT in July this week. Peter Bale runs the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington DC, one of the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative centers in America.
Fiji placement enlightens aspiring climate change journalists
A two-week journalism stint in Fiji, dubbed “Bearing Witness”, has lent new perspectives on the effects of climate change on AUT journalism student Ami Dhabuwala and graduate TJ Aumua.
PMC director calls for ‘voice for the voiceless’ at Pacific human rights forum
Giving voice to the voiceless and championing the rights of all people by telling the truth was the message given to the Human Rights and the Media forum in Fiji organised by the region’s Pacific Community.
PMC director gives media awards keynote, research seminar at Pacific university
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie has visited Fiji as the guest of the regional University of the South Pacific to present a keynote address at the annual journalism awards night and to present a research seminar for academics.
Journalism under threat - ‘digital first’ strategies put journalists last
Journalism in New Zealand is threatened by the constant culling of editorial jobs and current affairs programmes. The 2015 JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report observes that in this year alone 60-70 jobs were removed from newsrooms and current affairs production. This report is the fifth produced by the AUT’s research centre Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD).
Journalism Conference gets UNESCO Grant
AUT has won a UNESCO grant to help support the World Journalism Education Congress being hosted at the City Campus in July 2016.
Taberannang Korauaba: Why Tuvalu? A call to regain leading role on climate change
PhD candidate Taberannang Korauaba from AUT’s Pacific Media Centre gives us some insight into what drove him to research climate change communications in the South Pacific.
Opinion: How peace journalism can challenge ‘war voyeurism’
As the unprecedented human tide of refugees flows into Europe unabated, fleeing from both the ruthless military targeting by the Assad regime and the ISIS reign of terror with murder, torture, crucifixion and sexual slavery, along with the atrocities committed by other rebels such as Jabhat al-Nusra, it is time to rethink our media responses too, says AUT Professor and Director of the Pacific Media Centre, Dr David Robie.
AUT ad students turn water into wealth with Just Water win
A successful advertising concept for Just Water International’s water filters has netted two AUT students $23,000.
Book launch: 30 years on from the Rainbow Warrior bombing
Call for a region-wide push for real nuclear justice in Pacific needed, says Dr David Robie
Rainbow Warrior redux: How French nuclear terrorism changed the Pacific
Opinion piece by Professor David Robie of AUT’s School of Communication Studies, who travelled on board the Rainbow Warrior for 10 weeks before the bombing and wrote the book Eyes of Fire. A fresh edition was published this week.
AUT filmmakers light up the screen at international film festival
The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) kicks off in Auckland on July 16 with its biggest programme to date. This year’s festival will feature the work of four AUT lecturers and two students.
Top Asia-Pacific media award for AUT Pacific Media Centre director
Auckland University of Technology Professor in Communication Studies David Robie was recently honoured for his significant contribution to the Asia-Pacific media landscape at the 24th Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) conference held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The declining state of current affairs programmes in New Zealand
Opinion Piece by Dr Sarah Baker, Communications lecturer at AUT University.
Research shows diversity squizzed in the election news
Bringing diversity of voices in public domain might still be a far reaching goal for the New Zealand media. The AUT study of the 2014 election coverage shows the news was dominated by males and by political party members. When journalists used social media to discuss the elections they mainly to talk to each other.
The common imagery of Israeli airstrikes, destruction of property and the loss of human life is how international audiences see the Israeli-Palestinian relationship.
Climate change, environmental journalism and better media ethics
Conservation issues, loss of land, enforced location and culture and language erosion are a few of the worries troubling low-lying Pacific communities, and for indigenous communities, relocation will ultimately lead to culture and language loss.
AUT’s Pacific Media Centre condemns Paris atrocity
The director of AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre, has condemned the “outrageous and cowardly” attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, describing it as a despicable assault on global media freedom.