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Arts journalism and exiled writers: a case study of fugal, reflexive practice
Get PDFArts journalism and reflective practice intersect in a new field of ‘journalism as research’ (Bacon 2006). This article takes an innovative approach informed by the multimodal, musical and psychogenic fugue to discuss a case study of arts journalism reflexive practice. The journalistic research topic is the impact of the traumatic journey of exiled writers on their creative writing, the empathetic effects of trauma and courage on their advocates and the impacts of researching trauma on the researcher. The journalistic, interview-based articles discussed in the case study are on exiled writers in Australia, Iranian poet-musician Mohsen Soltany Zand and Ivory Coast political journalist Cheikh Kone. In reflecting on processes of writing of the stories, the author begins to outline the foundations of an innovative, critical fugal methodology of reflexive practice for modes and pieces of arts journalism.
Image: Exiled Iranian poet-musician Mohsen Soltany Zand giving a reading at Bar Me, Kings Cross, Sydney, September 2007. Photo: Ruth Skilbec
Critical Fiji media studies defy climate of censorship: Review of Media and Democracy in Fiji, edited by Shailendra Singh and Biman Prasad. Suva: Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji (2008/9). 6 (Nos. 1 and 2)
Get PDFThe special edition on ‘Media and Democracy in Fiji’ of Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji is an engaging collection of articles of diverse quality presented in varying degrees of intellectual temperaments, some with political passion and unrestrained emotion, some with journalistic vigour and some with serious scholastic zeal. A few articles are outstanding in terms of analytical depth and cutting edge approach while some are lacklustre and lack what it takes to be a journal article. Nevertheless, the intensity of discourse relating to the media in Fiji and the Pacific is enough to inspire one’s sense of appreciation of the role the media and journalists who operate in politically challenging environments like Fiji play. (The last such collection was ‘crisis in coverage’ published after the George Speight attempted coup, May, 2000)
'Rewired', yet reflects old world media order: Review of The Al Jazeera Effect: How the new media are reshaping world politics, by Philip Seib
No full textThis book puzzled me at first. Not that it's badly written and organised. It's clear, concise and informed. Nor it is it laden with fantastic theories cooked up by desk bound academics claiming they uderstand the world which perhaps exists beyond their air-conditioning. Seib's analyses seemed grounded in facts as I knew them and appeared mostly right to me. But how did a US-based academic have time and resources to collect, comb through and evaluate diverse information from such distant and dispatrate localtions? I have traveled and worked in many of the places Seib writes about, and trust me, their languages, politics and cultures are not easy to penetrate. 
Intentional use of te reo Māori in New Zealand newspapers in 2007
Get PDFThe study aimed to measure the intentional use of words in te reo Māori in a representative sample of newspaper news items about Māori issues.While te reo Māori was made an official language in 1987, it remains endangered and New Zealand remains one of the most monolingual countries in the world. The news items analysed were about Māori issues, and thus more likely to include Māori words. Only words with an alternative in English were counted, and the origin of articles was analysed. Forty-five percent of items included no Māori words. Only words with an alternative in English were counted, and the origin of articles was analysed. forty-five percent of items included no Māori words with an alternative in English, and the average across the sample was 2.4. More than half the Māori words counted described social culture. Use of te reo varied widely among newspapers. No regular Māori language promotion items appeared in the sample, and it provides little evidence of support for New Zealand's endangered indigenous official language. 
Reporting controversy in health policy: A content and field analysis
Get PDFThis article reports on the research and analysis of editorial attitudes and news reporting in two prominent Sydney newspapers—The Daily Telegraph (DT) and The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)—about the establishment and operation of the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIC) in Kings Cross from January 1999 to December 2006. The establishment of the MSIC was highly controversial and generated strongly partisan attitudes among politicians, experts, local businesses and the general community. The research compares the editorial stance of these newspapers towards the injecting room and the reporting practices of the newspapers, in particular the range of sources used by the journalists; it deploys a content analysis to identify positive and negative attitudes in the preferred readings of the texts, the usage of sources within the reports and the partisan affiliations of those sources. It reveals stark differences in the reporting of the controversy by the two newspapers, and that the reporting differences were aligned with the respective editorial policies of the mastheads. The interpretation of these empirical findings using field theory is located within the debates in the journalism studies literature about the power relationship of journalistic practices to the interests of sources
Iconic war imagery: Review of Don McCullin supporting the Freedom of the Press: 100 Photographs, edited by Jean-François Julliard
No full textThe Paris-based global media freedom group Reporters sans frontières has carved out an innovative niche for its brand of fund-raising books in defence of the endangered journalist species. The latest addition is another fine collector's item— 100 iconic war and social disorder imagery from Britsh photo-journalist Don McCullin. 
Noted: Primer migrates online: Review of The News Manual Online, by David Ingram and Peter Henshall with illustrations by Bob Browne
No full textThe trio of books dubbed The News Manual, which grew out of a search in the mid-1980s for resources for University of Paua New Guinea students, were published in 1991 with backing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Thorough and clear guide to basic reporting skills, including ethics, the law, and English grammar, their 700 pages formed an important resource in a region where only a lucky few got tertiary training, let alone specialised journalism coaching, and were (still are) often plucked from a short secondary school career and thrown in the deep end
Media diversity: The challenge of ‘doing it better'
Get PDFOn 25 August 2008, media practitioners, policy makers, journalists and media educators gathered on Ngā Wai O Horotiu Marae at New Zealand’s AUT University to consider the state of diversity in the news media and the challenges for ‘doing it better’. Supported by the Human Rights Commission and the Pacific Media Centre, the keynote speaker was Arlene Notoro Morgan, associate dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, New York, and author of The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity (2006). Other speakers included Ana Tapiata, of Kawea Te Rongo and the HRC; Bharat Jamnadas, senior journalist, Asia Down Under, Taualeo’o Stephen Stehlin, executive producer, Tagata Pasifika, Television New Zealand; and Pere Maitai, news director, Pacific Media Network. The forum, chaired by Gilbert Wong, canvassed culturally sensitive, accurate and well-crafted reporting on ethnicity issues and examined the challenges for the future. This transcript was compiled by Christine Lukhelo Williams, postgraduate student from Zimbabwe
Noted: Frontline humour takes on generals: Review of Defiant Humour: The Best of Harn Lay’s Political Cartoons from the Irrawaddy, by Harn Lay
No full textThis is is a new political cartoon collection by Burmese artist and cartoonist Harn Lay. It is a revealing insight into Burma—where political resistance and traditional art and performance meet. The book demonstrates and is part of the ongoing resistance to an unjust abuse of power. Lay portrays key issues such as political prisoners, extended house arrest of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, the military’s response to sanctions, Burma-ASEAN relations and business deals with neighbouring countries
Covering the environmental issues and global warming in Delta land: A study of three newspapers
Get PDFThis article explores the coverage of environmental issues in the daily newspapers of Bangladesh, a South-Asian country facing the onslaught of global warming because of its low-lying deltaic plains and overpopulation. The results are based on an examination of the content of environmental coverage in three national daily newspapers (two Bangla and one English-language) during June 2007. Drawing on field theory and analytical frames from journalism studies, this study examines the principles of journalistic practices as revealed by the content of these publications. The findings indicate that environmental journalism is a strong subfield in Bangladesh’s media, which constructs its own veracity in ways that reflect the social, economic and political contexts of each publication. Based on this small study, the authors conclude that environmental journalists in Bangladesh adopt approaches to sourcing and causation which enable them, in alliance with non-government organisations, to pursue their aim of actively intervening in the field of government policy of Bangladesh, both in international and local spheres