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Pacific Scoop: By Courtney WilsonThe new Pacific Media Centre’s Web 2 news site has been launched at the inaugural Media, Investigative Journalism and Technology Conference.The new site is a collaborative work, which brings together a range of resources from separate sites including Pacific Media Watch, Pacific Scoop and Pacific media research.The site also links to Dr David Robie’s blog Café

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Some of the PMC graduating journalists covering the MIJT conference this weekend - Rose Rees-Owen (second from left), Hamish Fletcher and Pacific Media Watch editor Alex Perrottet - along with PMC director David Robie and chair John Utanga (right).AUT UniversityAnyone with an interest in writing, reading or studying investigative journalism, will benefit from a conference at AUT University this

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War victims: A tearful Sumitra Adhikari, 16, carries fodder for the family at Chaimale, near Kathmandu. Photo: Deependra BajracharyaPacific Media CentreKey Asia-Pacific, Australian and New Zealand investigative journalists and researchers will gather at AUT University next month for a media “conversation” that will feature diverse issues such as war reporting, scams and global warming

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Pacific Media CentreThe Pacific Media Centre is soon launching a new Pasifika media portal. This niusblog, Pacific Media Watch, Pacific Scoop and our many other services will be linked to this new website. Watch for it when it is launched on December 4 at the Media, Investigative Journalism and Technology 2060 conference. It will have the same url link as the existing website (www.pmc.aut.ac.nz

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Pacific Media CentrePacific Journalism Review has won a Creative Stimulus Award for academic journals in the inaugural Academy Awards of the Global Creative Industries in Beijing, China, this month.The journal, published by AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre and now in its 16th year, was one of five international journals to receive awards.Other journals honoured include the British-based

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Michele Ong, AUT journalism graduate working for the Rodney Times, spent three months in China earlier this year on an AUT University-China Daily Exchange Internship organised by AUT's Pacific Media Centre with Asia:NZ Foundation funding for air travel at the online arm of China’s national English newspaper, China Daily.com.cn. Here are some of her experiences and tips she shared on her return.I

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Pacific Media CentreSophie Foster, assistant editor of the Fiji Times, is among leading journalists who have lambasted curbs on media freedom in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review.She condemned the “growth of self-censorship” within Fiji’s media industry while revealing the findings of a recent survey of mainstream journalists.Foster took sudden leave at the Fiji Times after a

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Full text of Fiji Broadcasting Corporation news director Stanley Simpson's interview with new Fiji Times publisher Dallas Swinstead on 6 October 2010:What is the new direction, if any, that the Fiji Times will be taking? I want to add to the quality product we already have. This will range across all the various features that good newspapers offer. We have excellent world-wide editorial service

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By Yvonne Brill: Office of Pasifika AdvancementFormer publisher of Fiji’s Daily Post newspaper and political commentator Ranjit Singh has been given the opportunity to fulfill his dreams of working on a media research project close to his heart - media freedom in his homeland.Singh says that while he has experience in the media industry, academic study will help him “smooth out the rough diamond”

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Tagaloatele Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop's opening comments at the PIMA 2010 conferenceKia orana, malo e lelei, fakalofa lahi atu, ni sa bula vinaka, taloha ni, namaste, talofa lava and warm Pacific greetings.Faafetai Pastor for your well chosen words of blessing for this Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) opening, reminding us of the tremendous responsibilities of the media. You

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Pacific Media WatchNews media need to boost their coverage and analysis of Pacific environmental issues to meet the critical challenges facing the region, says a journalism educator.Associate Professor David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre, told a creativity and climate change conference at the University of the South Pacific in Suva this week that most media were not doing enough

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From TOKTOK: Pacific Media Centre newsletterSeveral key speakers are being lined up for the Media, Investigative Journalism and Technology 2010 conference being organised by the Pacific Media Centre at AUT University in December.Australian Centre for Investigative Journalism director Professor Wendy Bacon, Nepali Times editor Kunda Dixit and New Zealand’s leading investigative journalist Nicky

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Pacific Media CentreNew Zealand’s AUT University is seeking a Pasifika journalist and educator to join its teaching staff.The university’s School of Communication Studies described the new post in an advertisement today as a “challenging opportunity to lead, develop and teach the new Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism programme”.The new staff person would also contribute to other journalism

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Pacific Media CentreA new contributing editor for the Pacific Media Watch project has been appointed and has taken up his role this week.Alex Perrottet, 29, is a postgraduate student working towards a Master in Communication Studies degree at AUT University. He is also a qualified lawyer and experienced aid project organiser who has carried out considerable work in the Pacific.From Sydney, where

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By Kalafi Moala: Pacific Media CentreIn the days immediately following the announcement of the launch of the Pacific Media Association (PacMA), the question has often been raised about why Samoa was chosen as the place to register this new organisation.Last week on August 10, several media owners and journalists from the Pacific region met in Apia to form the new association. A new constitution

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Pacific Media CentreDevelopment journalism is critically important for media in the South Pacific, says the director of the Pacific Media Centre.Associate professor David Robie told the week-long Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) programme in New Zealand that some western media had "lost the plot".Too much focus was on conflict and crises and not enough on solutions.He said good development

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Pacific Media CentreDr Satu P. Limaye, director of the East-West Center in Washington, has paid a courtesy call on the Pacific Media Centre. Accompanied by the US ConsulatGeneral public affairs adviser Phil McKenna, he met with PMC director Dr David Robie, just back from an overseas sabbatical.They discussed regional issues and possible areas where the two centres could collaborate, including the

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Pacific Media CentreThe Pacific Media Centre has been successful in gaining a grant from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) to cover costs of assigning two postgraduate journalists to cover the Pacific Islands Forum meetings in Port Vila, Vanuatu, next week.Josephine Latu and Tupouseini Taumoepeau are leaving for Port Vila on Sunday to cover the week's meetings.Over

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Pacific Media CentreThe Pacific Media Centre has provided an internship base for Virginie Ribadeau Dumas, a French postgraduate student from the University of Rennes, who is completing a political science/journalism major.Dumas’ internship will be in two parts. From July 12 to July 30, 2010, she has been based at the PMC at AUT University. From August 1 to mid-September she will be based at Scoop

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Pacific Media CentreA new one-year Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism is being offered to fulfil needs in New Zealand's increasingly diverse media environment at AUT University's School of Communication Studies.Next year is the inaugural year for AUT's new Pacific graduate diploma, a programme spearheaded by Pacific Media Centre director Dr David Robie.The development of the course follows

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Pacific Media CentreNew Zealand journalism schools need to be far more internationally minded and think outside the parochial square, says Pacific Media Centre director David Robie.Just back from a six-week sabbatical trip to several Asian countries and Europe, Dr Robie says many New Zealand journalism graduates are doing well in countries such as China while pursuing an international career.The

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By Michele Ong in Beijing: Pacific Media CentreIt was in Anhui that I both truly experienced and saw China.Anhui province, with its stunning Huangshan mountain and beautiful old towns, was what I pictured China to be based on the movies I've watched and the books I've read.I first glimpsed Huangshan Mountain at the photo exhibition put out by respected artist Wang Wusheng at the opening ceremony

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By Thakur Ranjit Singh: Pacific Media CentreAlisha Lewis, winner of this year's TVNZ Journalism Diversity Scholarship at AUT University’s journalism school, sees a positive future for cultural minorities in the Nerw Zealand news media. She is grateful for the award which has allowed her to pursue her dreams and ambition to enter a journalism career. “I always loved writing and was interested in

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By Josephine Latu, Pacific Media Watch A group of established media veterans have formed a new group – the Pacific Media Association (PMA) – after this week’s resignation announcement by former vice president of the main regional body, the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) John Woods. The new media organization includes as key members Samoa Observer founder Savea Sano Malifa, Vanuatu Daily

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Pacific Media CentreAmnesty International has taken a staunch position against Fiji’s military government, stating that a new law that came into effect on June 25 will further restrict Fiji’s fourth estate from doing its job.In the report Amnesty International states the new law delivers another blow to media in Fiji, and reasons that “Despite the Government’s amendment of the draconian draft

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By Josephine Latu, Pacific Media WatchA serious lack of reporters and financial resources means that “some stories do not get told”, say some journalists from the region.Three visiting correspondents from the Pacific Islands, including Samoa Observer editor Mata’afa Keni Lesa, Matangi Tonga photojournalist Linny Folau and Cook Islands News political journalist Nerys Case, discussed the challenges

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By Gladys Hartson, Pacific Media WatchMost young Pacific people do not see journalism as a bona fide career path, according to three Pacific Island journalists who are in New Zealand this week as part of an inaugural exchange programme sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).At a panel discussion held at the University of Auckland Centre for Pacific Studies on Friday, Samoa

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Pacific Media CentreTwo Pacific journalists, along with representatives from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) met with the Pacific Media Centre team on Thursday June 24th to build networks and get familiarised with the centre's activities.Editor of the Samoa Observer Mata'afa Keni Lesa and Cook Islands News political journalist Nerys Chase were accompanied by senior

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By Gladys Hartson, Pacific Media WatchThe chairman of the National Pacific Radio Trust is confident that the Pacific Media Network which operates Niu FM, Radio 531pi, and Pacific Radio News is here to stay.Fa’amatuainu Tino Pereira says the outlook "can only get better from now on", despite poor attendance at Trust meetings held with Pacific communities earlier this month. Trust members and

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Pacific Media WatchThree Pacific journalists from Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands will be visiting the Pacific Media Centre this Thursday as part of a week-long exchange programme sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, focussing on policy and social issues as well as political journalism in the Pacific region.The visiting journalists include Samoa Observer editor Mata'afa Keni

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By Gladys Hartson, Pacific Media WatchMembers of the Pacific community have come out in support of a popular radio announcer after he was stood down from his weekend show Talanoa Pacific on Thursday.According to a blog, Efeso Collins, an announcer for Radio 531pi posted a notice on Pacificeyewitness website stating he received an email from the programme director of Pacific Media Network, Pere

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Pacific Media CentreThe Pacific Media Centre wishes to congratulate Samoan journalist and NZ Herald reporter, Vaimoana Tapaleao, on winning Junior Reporter of the Year at the 37th annual Qantas Media Awards held in Auckland last weekend.Tapaleao (23) graduated from AUT University in 2008 and joined the New Zealand Herald team soon after as a South Auckland reporter.During her last year at

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Calls for nominations for the Bruce Jesson Journalism Awards will close at the end of the month (30 June). Two awards are offered each year, including one for senior journalists and one for "emerging" student journalists in New Zealand. The award is aimed at promoting critical, analytical journalism that will contribute to public debate on important issues in New Zealand.Press ReleaseThe Bruce

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Pacific Media WatchPacific Media Watch contributing editor Josephine Latu has been signed on to become one of 18 mentors in a pilot programme launched this week by Tonga’s Women and Children Crisis Centre.The inaugural I-YEL program will run over a period of 12 months and will aim to encourage, prepare and challenge young people to be advocates for human rights with a special focus on women and

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Keynote address by Shooting Balibo author Tony Maniaty, a former ABC television journalist and now senior lecturer in international journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney, at the War Reporting seminar at AUT University.By Tony ManiatyAnyone remotely sensitive who watches the film Balibo comes away surely with a sense of anger, about the injustice visited upon the people of East Timor,

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Pacific Media Centre/JACradioPacific Media Centre director David Robie is among a host of people interviewed at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day conference in Brisbane earlier this month.He talked to Lisa Machin from the JACradio team.Genevieve Kennedy also interviewed Cherelle Jackson, editor of the Samoan newspaper Environment Weekly, on media freedom in Samoa.Radio coverage from the

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Pacific Media CentreEditors, journalists and media researchers face the challenge of the “price of freedom” and the cost of reporting global conflict in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review.Writing in the edition, Shooting Balibo author Tony Maniaty, who was a consultant for a recent film on the killing of six Australian-based journalists – including a New Zealander – in East Timor,

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By Josephine Latu: Pacific Media WatchPutting a media career on hold in order to go to back to journalism school was a tough choice, says Gladys Hartson, a former broadcaster at the Pacific Media Network currently studying at AUT University.Hartson entered the Graduate Diploma in Journalism programme this year and recently took up a part-time stint at the Pacific Media Centre as a reporter for

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By Gladys Hartson: Pacific Media WatchPacific Island journalists and broadcasters in New Zealand have paid tribute to veteran broadcaster and journalist Elma MaUa who has passed away after a long illness.MaUa was one of the first Pacific Island women journalists in the NZ media industry.Journalists and broadcasters remembered MaUa in their own way, hosting their own memorial events.Former

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By Pacific Media Watch in BrisbaneA New Zealand media educator who headed Pacific journalism schools for a decade has called for a stronger voice against censorship from the region’s communication education sector.“The student press and broadcasters in the Pacific universities need to be proactive in their coverage and philosophy as news media,” said associate professor David Robie, director of

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Pacific Media CentreThe Pacific Media Centre, International Committee of the Red Cross and New Zealand Red Cross are jointly hosting twin special events on reporting wars at AUT University next month. They are:4.30-6.45 pm, May 24, WA224 (AUT city conference centre): Screening of the film Balibo about the killing of six journalists in East Timor in 1975. Followed by a Q and A session with one of

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By Thakur Ranjit Singh: Pacific Media CentreBarbara Dreaver’s Samoa “gangs and drugs” story, Voreqe Bainimarama’s controversial media decree in Fiji, and the Julian Moti saga in Australia make interesting news debates. And a common issue in the middle is media ethics.Imogen Crispe, an Auckland University Bachelor of Arts honours graduate with a double major in philosophy and French, has a passion

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Pacific Media CentreThe controversial Fiji draft media decree, news coverage of Samoa and Tonga and the rest of the region and journalism education have all featured in this week's commentaries from the Pacific Media Centre.Censorship by legal camouflage (forthcoming article in the Walkley Magazine) - AprilRadio NZ's Mediawatch co-host Jeremy Rose interviews PMC director Dr David Robie on the

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Pacific Media CentrePacific Media Centre's David Robie featured in Barbara Dreaver's Television NZ report on the new Media Industry Development Decree 2010. Dreaver, still banned in Fiji by the military-backed government, says the regime is set to introduce tough new laws that could see journalists locked up or fined 10 times their salary if they write stories criticising the dictatorship...

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Pacific Media CentrePacific Scoop has featured David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre, talking about the controversial Media Industry Development Decree being ushered in by the military-backed regime. 95bFM’s Will Pollard interviews Dr Robie on the implications for the future in Fiji - and also around the Pacific region.Will Pollard talks to David Robie on 95bFM

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By David Robie: Pacific Media CentreFiji’s draft media decree is draconian and punitive and will fail as a development communication model.Many aspects of the draft law are deeply disturbing and the harsh proposed penalties for editors and journalists who fall foul of the proposed rules will curb any hope of a return to an independent Fourth Estate.This will be a blow to media freedom throughout

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By Josephine Latu: Pacific Media CentreTwo new Pasifika scholarship students have joined the Bachelor of Communication Studies degree programme at AUT University this year - and hope to inspire young people in their communities to follow their lead.Jordan Puati, 20, and Krissy Rangi, 18, have been awarded AUT/Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) Pasifika communication scholarships.PIMA chair

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Pacific Media CentreDeputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Frankie Reed, of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the US Department of State, has paid a visit to the Pacific Media Centre at AUT University. She met PMC director associate professor David Robie and several project journalists and students involved in the centre. After early studies in journalism and communication herself, Reed

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By Tupouseini Taumoepeau: Pacific Media CentreWith a “real passion to share the rich history” of his Pacific culture, John Pulu has been awarded the Spasifik Prize and Storyboard Award for diversity journalism.At the annual School of Communication awards evening at AUT University, Pulu was presented with the prize by the deputy editor for Spasifik magazine, Qiane Corfield-Matata.“It’s the best

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By Josephine Latu: Pacific Media CentreWhen Solomon Islanders at the launch of Being the First were each handed a copy of the book, the general reaction was one of “awe”.The book is the first ever to document the lives of leading Solomon Islands women from their own point of view, and the first published historical account of achievements by local women over the past 50 years.It will be launched

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Pacific Media CentreJAKARTA: Six New Zealand and Pacific delegates - including Pacific Media Centre director Associate Professor David Robie - were among journalists from across the East Asia region who gathered in Jakarta this week for a conference on reporting the "intersection of politics, religion and culture" in times of conflict.The three-day conference was co-sponsored by the New Zealand

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By Geraldine Coutts of Radio AustraliaCompiling a book on leading women in Solomon Islands is no easy thing when a major language in the country - pijin blong Solomon, or Solomons Pidgin - is only a spoken language.But Marilyn Waring, editor of Being the First, rallied to the cause, with the help of the subjects of the book, the country's leading women in the period following independence from

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FOR MORE than four decades, 'Atenisi Institute founding professor 'I Futa Helu has been one of the greatest philosophers in the Pacific, with an extraordinary international influence on education, social and political discourse - and even media. His sad passing this month at the age of 75 has left a gap in the intellectual leadership and humanity in Tonga and the region. The Pacific Media Centre

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By Lucy Mullinger: Pacific Media CentreA Pacific media freedom monitoring project that began life campaigning for two journalists and a parliamentarian languishing in a Tongan jail almost 14 years ago has been given a boost by a $15,000 development grant.Pacific Media Watch, founded by volunteer journalists concerned about a free media in the region, campaigned with a petition to have the “Tongan

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Pacific Media Centre Pacific Scoop, the new niche website launched by the Pacific Media Centre and Scoop Media last August, has been featured on the Creative Commons case study wiki. Sections of the case study report are republished here - with some amendments where Pacific Scoop has been confused with the long-established parent website Scoop, which has been publishing for a decade.Pacific Scoop

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Pacific Media CentreInternational relations and security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan is returning to New Zealand for a month and will deliver a public lecture focusing on South East Asia and South Pacific geopolitics and security.The lecture is open to the public and is hosted by AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre.Most recently a Visiting Associate Professor at the National University of

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Pacific Media CentreA young Filipina-New Zealander has been awarded the first Asia New Zealand Foundation Kiwi Asian Journalism Scholarship.The successful candidate, Corazon Miller, is of Filipina and New Zealand European descent. She is bilingual in Tagalog and English.Miller is currently employed as a nurse at Auckland Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.She intends to use the communication

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Pacific Media Centre: pmw2627The Pacific Media Watch freedom of expression monitoring project at AUT University has been awarded a $15,000 development grant to expand its regional database and journalism resource.The PMW project was adopted by AUT’s Pacific Media Centre in 2007 and has been developed by Pacific Islands contributing editors based in the School of Communication Studies for the

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By Nick Evershed, of NPA BulletinNewspapers have seen a number of new media outlets present both threats and opportunities over the years, from radio and TV to the internet.Now there is a new one to add to the list - non-profit news publishers.It has been announced that the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism in Melbourne, Australia, intends to present a new model for funding news

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Café Pacific marked the transition into the second decade of the century with six awards to media groups and individuals for their efforts in the Oceania region. Edited by the Pacific Media Centre director, Dr David Robie, Café Pacific provides an independent perspective on the region's media issues.The awards for 2009: Newspaper of the Year - The Fiji Times: "The rest of the region can thank The

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New stories and short docos filed by Pacific Media Centre students and student journos on the AUT television course are posted on our YouTube site. Some of the Māori, Pasifika and Ethnic Film Festival docos hosted by PMC chair's John Utanga of Tagata Pasifika are also included. Happy viewing.PMC on YouTubeBrief doco about the film festivalPMC on Facebook

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Pacific Media CentreFinal year television students Sophie Johnson and John Pulu have just produced a five-minute video for the Pacific Media Centre to provide a glimpse behind the faces of the students and researchers who work there.The mini-doco profiles the centre and some of the projects at the centre such as Pacific Media Watch, Pacific Scoop, Jim Marbrook's feature film production on New

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By Violet Cho: Pacific Media CentreWinners at AUT University’s inaugural Flavorz09 film festival for student video makers on Friday night say they are now inspired to break into the industry.Sophie Johnson, who won the year three prize of $350 for her 12 minute documentary, The Makings of a Kaitiaki, was delighted with her success.“I worked quite closely with a group of eight people and I know

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Pacific Media WatchTrauma and exiled writers, the challenge of environmental journalism in Delta land, issues of editorial “slant” in health reporting and use of te reo Māori in newspapers are some of the topics featured in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review.The October edition is a special “Public right to know” joint issue published by the Australian Centre for Independent

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By Brenda CottinghamThe first thing Burmese journalist Violet Cho noticed about New Zealand’s news media was its different news priorities – like a burglary story on page one of the NZ Herald.The kind of journalism she does involves avoiding being shot or having her limbs blown off by land mines.“I couldn’t believe that a burglary would be so important that it warranted being on page one,” she

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By Christopher Adams: Pacific Media CentreA shortage of Pacific Islanders undertaking journalism training in New Zealand will be addressed next year with the introduction of a new course at AUT University.The Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism will incorporate the core papers from the Bachelor in Communications Studies degree with a journalism major, along with electives focusing on the

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"Let's Be Frank" is due to be aired again on Māori Television tomorrow (Friday) night at 10pm.By David Robie, of Pacific Media WatchFiji’s military-backed prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama has vowed not to be bullied by Australia and New Zealand, and has defended his curbs on the Pacific country’s media.“I’m trying to do what is good for Fiji, not what’s good for New Zealand, not what’s good for

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Stories and short docos filed by Pacific Media Centre students and student journos on the AUT television course are posted on our YouTube site. Happy viewing.

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The launch of Pacific Scoop late last month has opened the door to increased Pacific and diversity stories by student journalists at AUT University and around the region. By Steve Chae: Pacific.ScoopHopes are high that Pacific Scoop will open up a window on the region with its New Zealand and global audience, says the co-founder of Scoop.Alastair Thompson said today the parent site had increased

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Watch for the Pacific Media Centre's latest venture - Pacific.Scoop, a joint partnership with Scoop media. We aim to provide and insightful mix of independent news, analysis and comment about Pacific issues. The website will have a fresh angle on regional affairs.Pacific.Scoop - check it out now and it will be launched at AUT's Maori Expo later this week.

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By Kalafi Moala: Pacific Media CentreNUKU’ALOFA: Tonga's Crown Prince Tupouto’a Lavaka has tried to bring closure to Tonga’s worst marine tragedy by asking those who have been rescued and the families of the 72 people still missing “to remember and to celebrate . . . life.”At a special memorial service held at the Free Wesleyan Church at his village estate of Pea, the Crown Prince urged national

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By Candace Uttam: Pacific Media CentreWomen’s advocacy groups in the Pacific have welcomed a move to stop sexual violence towards women in conflict situations, but say it needs be implemented in conjunction with an earlier resolution.They say that while the United Nation’s Security Council Resolution 1820, which was adopted last year, is absolutely critical, it should be viewed as an

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A TNEWS special report reviewing the Princess Ashika disaster with a live studio audience. Pro-democracy movement leader and MP ‘Akilisi Pohiva - who described the tragedy as "manslaughter by neglect" - and ‘Uliti Uata in Tonga discuss the aftermath and give the studio audience a chance to ask questions.TNews special [video Ep 18]TNews Online

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Some Manila communities are taking the matter into their own hands in the daily struggle for water. They are forming water cooperatives in a bid to survive.By Keira Stephenson: The Philippine StarMANILA, Philippines: “Water is life,” says Maharlika Water Cooperative member Lorda Feudo, yet more than half of Metro Manilans still don’t have clean water on tap.Those least able to afford it are

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During a draconian time in the 1970s, Pacific Islanders' homes in Auckland, New Zealand, were frequently raided at dawn by police. This AUT media student documentary takes a look back at those times and the emergence of the Polynesian Panthers as a political and social movement.The documentary is by Kelly Dennett, Serra Galuvao and Nathan Dawson. An earlier Pacific Media Centre profile on the

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Niuean policewoman Sisiliah Puleheloto was working in the Solomons with the RAMSI police force. She is one of two people confirmed drowned in the Princess Ashika tragedy in Tongan waters. The ferry capsized last Wednesday carrying 141 passengers - 93 people are still missing.By Linny Folau of Matangi TongaNUKU'ALOFA: Energetic and outgoing, young Niuean policewoman Sisiliah Puleheloto is

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Pacific Media WatchMatangi Tonga editorial by editor Pesi FonuaPORT VILA: The Suva-based Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) continues to struggle to establish itself as a champion of media freedom in the Pacific Islands.Meeting in Port Vila last week, about 200 PINA members and observers from around the region were addressing the important issue of access to information.But what appeared

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By Pippa Brown: Pacific Media CentreA pioneering new Pacific studies programme at Tonga’s ‘Atenisi University is set to change the way Tongan and Pacific history has been written, while embracing the institute’s classical philosophy.“Traditionally history passed through generations orally and writing is a comparatively new thing,” says Pacific studies researcher Dr ‘Opeti Taliai.The past was

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Pacific Media CentreA New Zealand-based Pacific radio network has moved to defuse a controversy over a Fijian-language interview critical of the Methodist Church and alleged involvement of some leading clergy in past coups.Pacific Media Network acting chief executive Tom Etuata told Pacific Media Centre reporter Pippa Brown today that the ban on experienced broadcaster Bulou Amalaini

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By Pippa Brown: Pacific Media CentreCook Islander Tau Greig and her husband Wayne Meyer hope this month’s granting of the right to sue over British nuclear testing in the Pacific will be the turning point in their private battle to succeed.They are tired of fighting the wall of silence that greets them when they open up the debate.They now want someone to help coordinate the victims and their

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By Pippa Brown: Pacific Media CentreThousands of Pacific children – possibly up to 5000 – may be missing out on education in New Zealand because their parents are overstayers, says a Pasifika school trustee spokesperson.“It is an issue that affects not just Pacific students, but all students whose parents are non-residents, no matter where they come from,” says Ben Taufua from the Pacific Island

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By Pippa Brown: Pacific Media CentrePublisher and broadcaster Kalafi Moala led an intimate and spirited philosophical public discussion last night on what it means to be Tongan with a sense of place in the world.The issues of modern Tonga and how to take the country forward without losing its sense of identity dominated the discussion as the kingdom moves into a fresh era as it progresses toward

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By Josephine Latu: Pacific Media WatchTongan Advisory Council chairman Melino Maka (pictured) has criticised New Zealand’s mainstream media for “missing the point” in coverage of an alleged visa scam on Pacific Islanders.Manukau-based immigration consultant, Gerrard Otimi, appeared in court yesterday and entered no pleas on three charges of deception.The charges against Otimi involve the alleged

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By Pippa Brown: Pacific Media CentreTributes flowed as families, friends and colleagues gathered in Auckland to say goodbye to the man they called “Papa Ron”, before his final journey home to the Cook Islands today.About 150 people gathered at a memorial service yesterday at the Pacific Islands Presbyterian Church in Newton to remember professor emeritus Dr Ron Crocombe, known as the father

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By Josephine Latu: Pacific Media CentreTwo Pacific Island nations – Fiji and Papua New Guinea – have been ranked among the least active countries in combating human trafficking abuses such as forced labour, bonded labour, sexual exploitation and child labour.Both countries were cited in the “least active” tier 3 group of countries in the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons Report released by the

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'Atenisi fellows: Dr David Robie (from left), Dr Ian Campbell, Professor Futa Helu, Dr 'Opeti Taliai, Dr Wendy Cowling, Prime Minister Dr Feleti Sevele and Dr Ron Crocombe. - Pacific Media Centre. Dr Niko Besnier was also inducted but is not in this picture.Pacific Media CentreNUKU’ALOFA: Six international academics have been inducted as fellows of Tonga’s ‘Atenisi University, the only leading

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Pacific Media Centre: UPNGAt the National Cultural Commission's Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, a team of local researchers has the mountainous task of recording the traditional knowledge of PNG societies.With some 814 distinct cultures, Ralph Wari, the institute's director, freely admits that they have hardly touched the surface of local language, customs, arts, and music. But with

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By Jessica Harkins: Pacific Media CentreChallenge noun: a task or request requiring special effort.If ever there was a word used to describe the task facing our broadcasters in the coming decade, it would be this, if last week’s ethnic diversity broadcasting forum is anything to go by.New Zealand on Air and the Office of Ethnic Affairs hosted the forum to ask: How will the changing demography of

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By Josephine Latu: Pacific Media CentreTonga’s Constitutional and Electoral Commission (CEC) has released its first progress report to the public since being set up in January.In its June 5 report, CEC chose not make any recommendations until it has received more proposals from the public specifically addressing governance structures.This includes the roles of the executive and legislature

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By Tupuola Terry Tavita in ApiaIt’s always sad when a loved one passes on, but for someone so young and so full of life as Luana Cobcroft, 24, it is heart-wrenching.In Samoa working on her Masters thesis, Luana, loved daughter of parents Adria and Adolf Arp and Gavin and Miti Cobcroft, was farewelled this afternoon by family and friends at the Anglican Church, Malifa.In attendance were the Head

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A long-term action plan about Pasifika employment in New Zealand is counting on a new report focusing on Pacific women’s demographics, education, and training and labour force deployment in the strategic mix.By Kacey Maher: Pacific Media CentreA better deal for Pasifika women in the labour market is a key target for the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs in a new employment strategy expected to

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By Terri ByrneIn 1987, the Auckland Ethnic Council founded a radio station that would:- allow non-English communities to hear their languages, their news, music and literature that- would represent their culture, values and beliefs, and- would allow them to have a public presence in a land they had lived in for decades if not generations.Today that station is 22 years old and the most diverse

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Thakur Ranjit Singh: Pacific Media CentreEthnic communities need to break into the mainstream media by telling inclusive stories and giving the message that Pacific people are part of New Zealand, says a leading television producer.Stan Wolfgramm, producer of Pacific Beat Street, says his own German, Tongan and Cook Islands heritage prepared him for a balancing act of operating in a commercial as

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By Josephine Latu: Pacific Media WatchThe New Zealand media is expected to tackle some major changes over their audience base within the next 20 years due to a population transformation, says a leading demographer.The director of the Population Studies Centre at Waikato University, Professor Richard Bedford, says the New Zealand population as a whole is not only growing older, it is evolving

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Many barriers face Pacific Island women over breast screening in New Zealand, including problems accessing transport, different languages and a lack of information and understanding.By Kara Segedin: Pacific Media CentreFront line health organisations like the West Fono Health Trust in Waitakere city are making progress directly in their communities by addressing the unique barriers to health care

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Pacific Media WatchNew Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner, Joris de Bres, has awarded Pacific Journalism Review a citation in recognition of its latest edition dedicated to the theme of "diversity and identity".The May edition of the journal, published by AUT University's Pacific Media Centre, highlights some of the complex diversity issues across the Asia-Pacific region, and De Bres says the

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Seasonal workers at the Satara kiwifruit packhouse in Te Puke.On right: Group leader Sepuloni Saipaia and Satara pastoral caremanager Tim Crossman. By Lucy Mullinger: Pacific Media CentreAn export harvesting and packaging industry employing seasonal Pacific Islanders has emerged as a critical money-spinner for small island economies, with the scheme earning more than $10 million a year for Tonga

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By Sylvia Giles: Pacific Media CentreWanted: More interpreters – especially Pasifika - for the Manukau SuperClinic, which is catering for a district more culturally diverse than any other in New Zealand.Interpreters used by the clinic - essential for the safety of patients and medical staff - include Afghan, Arabic, Cantonese and Vietnamese.However, the free service is still having difficulty

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By Megan Anderson: Pacific Media CentreIn the wake of three decades of devastating civil war in Sri Lanka, aid workers are struggling to help rebuild the communities shattered by the conflict.International organisations and governments - including United Nations agencies, Red Cross, Oxfam and NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully - called for a ceasefire before the final end to the war – in a bid

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By Vanita Prasad:Pacific Media CentreRisking your life is a given when reporting in and around Burma, says the Pacific Media Centre’s first Asian journalism fellow.A moving seminar and film screening held by the centre at AUT University this week documented the perils of being a dissident Burmese journalist.The seminar was delivered by Violet Cho, one of Burma’s “young heroes” – as she was

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