Tag: journalism education
New free press book a must read for Pacific ‘media spoilers’
By Patrick Craddock in Suva
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific is being published today while Fiji...
Coups, conflicts and human rights: Pacific media challenges in the digital age
By David Robie
At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust is Britain’s so-called Hackgate scandal involving the widespread allegations...
The South Pacific round – a book on Pacific journalism pedagogy, politics and perils [Profile]
Citizens of the politically turbulent states that are New Zealand's neighbours deserve better news media. David McLoughlin talks to an old Pacific hand, David...
Mekim Nius: South Pacific Media, Politics and Education (2004)
By David Robie
The news media is the watchdog of democracy. But in the South Pacific today the Fourth Estate role is under threat from...
Journalism Education in the South Pacific, 1975-2003 : Politics, policy and practice
By David Robie
University education for South Pacific journalists is a relatively recent development. It has existed in Papua New Guinea for merely a generation;...
Freedom of speech in the Pacific: Don’t shoot the messenger
Many Pacific Islands neophyte journalists face a baptism of fire. It often takes raw courage to be a journalist in the Pacific. DAVID ROBIE...