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'Bearing Witness' project Banabans documentaryPacific Media Centre’s 2018 Bearing Witness climate project team Hele Ikimotu and Blessen Tom had their documentary, Banabans of Rabi: A Story of Survival, premiered at the Nuku’alofa International Film Festival. The film has also been accepted for the Maorilands and Pasifika film festivals in 2019. Read more |
Pacific Media Centre Celebrates 10 YearsThe Pacific Media Centre in the AUT School of Communication Studies has turned 10 with a special celebration event: JOURNALISM UNDER DURESS IN ASIA-PACIFIC. |
 See PMC stories on The Junction student journalism showcaseThe Pacific Media Centre has joined JERAA in showcasing student journalism about the Pacific. Read about the Fiji election and other stories. Read more. |
Watch our PMC projects on screenHere is a quick introduction to some of the Pacific projects, current affairs coverage and research being done by the PMC team of students and staff. See more at PMC On Demand |
Kia ora tatou and warm Pacific greetings.
The Pacific Media Centre - Te Amokura - is the only media research and community resource centre of its kind in Aotearoa/New Zealand and has a strategic focus on Māori, Asia-Pacific and ethnic diversity media and community development. It was established by AUT's Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies in 2007 as part of the Creative Industries Research Institute. It is now part of the School of Communication Studies.
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The PMC also collaborates with other Asia-Pacific media centres, including the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and the University of the South Pacific regional journalism programme, engages in research and cultural production, and also the AUT Journalism programme. It develops cultural and research publications, building on the success of the peer-reviewed publication Pacific Journalism Review, (indexed on SCOPUS, Informit, EBSCO, Knowledge Basket and global media databases), Pacific Journalism Monographs and the news monitoring service Pacific Media Watch. It also offers Pacific media studies at postgraduate level, including the JOUR801 Asia-Pacific Journalism Studies course.
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Director: Professor David Robie
Pacific Media Watch editor and Southern Cross radio presenter: Michael Andrew
Pacific Journalism Review and Toktok designer: Del Abcede
Pacific Media Centre Advisory Board chair: A/Professor Camille Nakhid
TOKOTOK newsletter no 37, 2018 
Students, staff and research associates are currently engaged on projects involving fields such as:
- Alternative journalism and media models
- Asia-Pacific journalism and political studies
- Communication for social change
- Comparative journalism studies
- Critical development and deliberative journalism
- Environmental journalism
- Development communication
- International journalism and publication
- Media ethics and accountability
- Peace journalism
- Social media in development
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In his latest book, Eyes Of Fire, PMC director Professor David Robie investigates and reflects on the Rainbow Warrior bombing of 1985.
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Pacific Media Watch - database and media monitoring project
Books and publications – Orders online
Pacific Journalism Monographs - Peer-reviewed research monographs ISSN 2253-4113
Pacific Journalism Review – Peer-reviewed biannual research journal ISSN 1023-9499
Asia Pacific Report -Joint industry project between PMC and Multimedia Investments Ltd
Pacific Media Research
Postgraduate supervisions
TOKTOK - Quarterly newsletter
AUT Shop - For Pacific Media Centre publications 
Director: Professor David Robie
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor: TJ Aumua
PMC staff and volunteers
PMC research associates
Pacific Media Centre
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Aotearoa/New Zealand
Pacific Media Centre
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Telephone: (+64 9) 921 9388
Contact: pmc@aut.ac.nz
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