Web Directory > Pacific > News, Media and Publishing

• ABYZ news links. Oceania
  Gateway to newspapers, news media and news sources.
  
  
• Asia Pacific / Radio Australia
  Home page of the Radio Australia current affairs programme Asia Pacific, which covers news and current affairs in the Asia Pacific region. Programmes are broadcast live in streaming audio, and audio files and transcripts of recent programmes are also available.
  
  
• Asia Pacific media educator
  Asia Pacific Media Educator (APME) provides analysis of media production and texts, and innovations in media education and training, by and for media educators, researchers and practitioners. Site has subscription information, and provides contents and abstracts of articles.
  
  
• Audionet.co.nz
  Live music including the following radio stations: 91ZM, 99-100 MORE FM, The Breeze, Kiwi, MUNT FM, George, BaseFM and UpFM. Live streaming of Radio New Zealand International programmes which broadcast to the Pacific.
  
  
• Business advantage : intelligence for international investment and trade
  A communications agency specialised in the production of sophisticated magazine-style publications that identify and highlight business opportunities in specific countries, regions or industry verticals around the world.
  
  
• Café Pacific : media freedom and transparency
  Journalist David Robie's independent news media and politics commentary and analysis about Aotearoa/NZ and the Asia-Pacific region.
  
  
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments
  An online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet members, compiled by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Also includes heads of central banks, ambassadors to the United States, and permanent representatives to the United Nations. Issued monthly in PDF format, and also available in HTML format, updated weekly.
  
  
• Contemporary Pacific : a journal of Island affairs
  The Contemporary Pacific covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Its articles examine social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section of letters and short items. The site provides contents pages of each issue, as well as abstracts of articles, and full-text of some reviews.
  
  
• EthnicWord
  Ethnic Word, publisher of Pasifika/English bilingual children's books in Samoan, Tokelau, Niue, Fijian, Tongan and Cook Islands Māori/English. Online ordering.
  
  
• Index New Zealand
  INNZ is an index with abstracts from selected New Zealand serial publications journals, including newspapers and nearly 300 journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific. It is updated daily and covers general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities.
  
  
• Island time
  Discussion forum for Pacific Islanders in Europe, part of the Samoan Sensation site.
  
  
• Islands Business
  Premier publishing group in the Pacific Islands region. Produces 14 products in print, video and digital media that include current affairs and business magazines, in-flight magazines for 3 of the region's airlines and four special-interest industry publications of Islands Business International.
  
  
• Journal of Pacific studies
  Journal of Pacific Studies is an academic journal, publishing articles from a wide range of disciplines on the Pacific region. Abstracts are available, as well as full-text of more recent issues.
  
  
• Newsletter of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau / Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
  Newsletter Of The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau carries news of the Bureau's activities, microfilming projects, recent releases, fieldtrips, advertises books and presents articles by a wide range of people with an interest in the Pacific Islands region. Issues are available in full-text.
  
  
• Pacific beat
  Draws on Australian based reporters and correspondents throughout the Pacific Islands for events and issues affecting the region, interviews with political leaders, newsmakers and the "people who make the Pacific beat". The site provides news items from the current programme, an archive and audio clips. Also includes articles and commentaries from other sources.
  
  
• Pacific ecologist / Pacific Institute of Resource Management
  Pacific Ecologist is published by the Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM), and is one of a family of Ecologist journals published globally. It includes information on regional, national and global issues related to ecology and human justice. Contents pages are available, with summaries and full text of selected articles, and full text of most editorials.
  
  
• Pacific economic bulletin / Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, the Australian National University
  Pacific Economic Bulletin is a fully refereed journal covering economic and policy developments in Papua New Guinea and Pacific island countries. Site provides the contents page of the latest issue, with full text of policy dialogue papers, and abstracts of other articles. Indexes of previous articles are also available, arranged by author or by country.
  
  
• Pacific Islanders in Communications
  A national nonprofit media organisation established for the purpose of increasing national public broadcasting programming by and about indigenous Pacific Islanders. The site includes examples of productions and links to resources for documentary filmmakers.
  
  
• Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society
  PICISOC site for those interested in developing Internet in all its aspect in the Pacific Islands. Includes online discussions.
  
  
• Pacific Islands Media Association NZ
  PIMA aims to support and develop Pacific Islands people working in the media industry through training. About the organizatin, news and details of scholarships available.
  
  
• Pacific Islands report
  A daily online news bulletin. The web site includes full text of the current issue and the previous month's issues. Individual articles from earlier issues are available through a search engine. The site also provides links to other Pacific news and government sites; and maps of Oceania.
  
  
• Pacific Islands Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland
  The Society was formed to promote relationships between the peoples and countries of the Pacific Islands and the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Society holds events and publishes a newsletter, The Outrigger.
  
  
• Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association
  PITA is is a non-profit organisation formed to represent the interests of small island nations in the Pacific Region in the field of telecommunications.
  
  
• Pacific journalism online : University of the South Pacific Journalism Programme
  University of the South Pacific Journalism Programme site. Includes online news and Radio Pasifik news audio clips.
  
  
• Pacific journalism review
  A journal covering Pacific media issues and communication. While one objective is research into Pacific journalism theory and practice, the journal is also interested in advertising, communication, information technology, government, media studies, politics and public administration. The site provides the cover, contents pages, editorial and the full text of selected articles from the current issue and some back issues. It also includes an author index and links to related sites.
  
  
• Pacific magazine
  Website of Pacific Magazine. Site also includes a search engine for back issues, and news on the Pacific region. Issue are available in full-text.
  
  
• Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
  Sponsored by 7 libraries in Australia, New Zealand (Alexander Turnbull Library and University of Auckland Library) and the United States. Makes microfilm copies of Pacific archives. The web site includes an online catalogue of microfilm holdings and online issues of Pambu newsletter.
  
  
• Pacific media watch
  The PMW dynamic archive currently holds news reports and research papers, audio and video reports about media accountability, ethics, freedom of speech, safety of journalists and media ownership in the region.
  
  
• Pacific radio station web-sites
  Pacific Island radio stations.
  
  
• Pacific science
  Pacific Science is an international, multidisciplinary journal reporting research on the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific basin. It focuses on biogeography, ecology, evolution, geology and volcanology, oceanography, palaeontology, and systematics. Contents pages and abstracts are available.
  
  
• Pacific studies WWW monitor / edited by T. Matthew Ciolek
  The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor (ISSN 1443-8976) was established in April 2000. It is modelled on its sister publication Asian Studies WWW Monitor and forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library. The site provides links to articles on the Pacific region and includes archived articles as well as links to related sites.
  
  
• Pacific studies www virtual library / edited by T. Matthew Ciolek
  Provides a catalogue of online resources, online maps and atlases, bibliographies and other research materials.
  
  
• PacificaTube : home of Pacific media
  PacificaTube.com is a place to share and view video and audio clips with Pacific content.
  
  
• Pasifika Press
  Publisher specialising in books from the South Pacific. Lists publications and order information.
  
  
• PEACESAT : Pan-Pacific education and communication experiments by satellite
  PEACESAT is a public service satellite telecommunications network that links educational institutions, regional organizations, and governments in the Pacific Islands region. The site provides information on programs; using PEACESAT services; PEACESAT sites in the Pacific Islands region; PEACESAT partners; and PEACESAT technologies.
  
  
• People and culture in Oceania : official journal of the Society
  People and Culture in Oceania is the official journal of the Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies. It publishes original research and communication of scientific interest, in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, prehistory and archaeology, human ecology, geography, etc. The geographical regions covered are Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia, and Island Southeast Asia, although research on adjacent areas is also accepted when the theme is relevant. The site provides contents pages of each issue, as well as abstracts of articles from v. 12 (1996) onwards. Information on subscribing to the Journal is also available.
  
  
• Polycafé : Polynesian Pacific daily news report
  Features news of the Pacific area along with radio programmes and forums.
  
  
• Quarterly bulletin
  The Quarterly Bulletin is published by the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, and covers topics currently being researched at the School, as well as providing background on the School's researchers. Issues are available in HTML and in PDF formats.
  
  
• Radio Heritage Foundation : www.radioheritage.net
  Aims to record and preserve the heritage of radio in the Pacific. Includes articles about New Zealand and Pacific radio heritage.
  
  
• Radio New Zealand International = Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa, o te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa : the voice of New Zealand broadcasting to the public
  The shortwave broadcasts of Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) provide news and information services, as well as a wide range of New Zealand programmes, to listeners in the South Pacific and beyond. News is broadcast in seven Pacific Island languages. The site provides information about Radio New Zealand International, a guide to broadcast frequencies in different areas of the Pacific, a programme guide, and access to real time broadcasts via Audio Net. It also includes a Pacific news section which contains current and archived news items.
  
  
• Radio NZ = Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
  Radio New Zealand includes National Radio, Concert FM and Radio New Zealand International (RNZI). Site includes current New Zealand and Pacific news, programs and sound archive of contemporary and historical radio programmes. Live streaming audio or replay of programs available.
  
  
• South Pacific journal of psychology
  The website of the South Pacific Journal of Psychology. Site includes contents pages of issues, as well as submission guidelines, and subscription and pricing information for the print edition.
  
  
• South Pacific study
  South Pacific Study, an interdisciplinary journal on the Oceania Region, is published by the Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands. Contents pages are available for all issues (and for its predecessor Memoirs of the KURCSP); full-text is available for most recent issues
  
  
• Tagata Pasifika
  About Tagata Pasifika (Pacific People) TV One's Pacific Islands half-hour English language news magazine show. It is available in online video and has a section on video favourites.
  
  
• Wansolwara print : one ocean, one people
  Wansolwara is a campus-based community newspaper published by the Journalism Programme of the University of the South Pacific. It provides independent news reports, feature articles and analysis of issues affecting the South Pacific region. Issues are available in full-text.
  
  
• Www.pacificislandsradio.com
  Promotes Pacific Islands radio stations and the music they play, much of it indigenous. Includes profiles of artists.