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The need to synthesise industry academy ambitions
Get PDFJournalism education in Australia, as it seems in New Zealand, finds itself between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand universities find themselves under pessure to provide courses that meet industry demands and enhance job success rates; on the other hand journalists seek to be recognised as professionals for a wide range of reasons. Among those reasons is the desire to raise the credibility of journalism in the public perception and the need to argue for higer rates of pay and improved conditions
REVIEW: Rocking the dinghy gently: Review of What's News? Reclaiming Journalism in New Zealand, edited by Judy McGregor and Margie Comri
No full textReview of What's News? Reclaiming Journalism in New Zealand, edited by Judy McGregor and Margie Comrie. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2002.
What's News? has tried to steer a middle course between academic research and commentary and does offer the general reader a sound introduction to the various media issues raised. It has rocked the dinghy gently but not so hard that anbody is likely to fall overboard and get soaked
Press Coverage of AIDS/HIV in the South Pacific: Short-term View of a Long-term Problem
Get PDFNewspaper editors need to play their part in tackling the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic in the South Pacific region as they have enormous influence and can make a difference. They can help challenge public opinion on HIV/AIDS that is often based on ignorance, fear and prejudice, and also step up coverage and allocate more space for information about prevention.
 
Humming 'Que Sera Sera'
Get PDF"'Jesus!' exclaimed Peter Arnett as the dull whoomp of an explosion sounded. Then, whoomp, again. Arnett was in the media centre at Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad, waiting to deliver a report by satelllite to someone called Eric. I know, because he was near a live microphone that was somehow feeding through the German webcam I was watching over the Internet, late on the evening of April 7. I had watched the webcam before, seen cars and buses circling Firdus Square and smoke crowding the horizon, but it had never had sound before. I could hear horns honking from the traffic, then, at one point, the sirens of two fire engine as they rush through...
The story behind the upheaval after Niu FM hit the airwaves
Get PDFThe biggest story in New Zealand's Pacific Island community in June was the dumping of the providers of the national Pacific Island radio network by the trust that the Government had appointed to fund it. It came after months of acrimony that began almost from the moment that Niu FM hit the airwaves
REVIEW: New Left journal of analysis in pursuit of another world: Review of Red & Green: The NZ Journal of Left Alternatives 1(1), edited by Jill Ovens.
No full textReview of Red & Green: The NZ Journal of Left Alternatives 1(1), edited by Jill Ovens. Auckland, The Red and Green Editorial Board.
Red & Green is the latest in a journal tradition engaging with politics and culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Immediately, by dint of reference to an early journal article written by Roger Harrocks, the editorial 'voice' of the introduction is concisous of this critical genealogy. The journal AND university based cultural/literature studies journal produced in the early 1980s, and as both a university professor and a cultural activist, Harrocks is one commentator who continues to be particulary alive to the coexistence of a politics of culture and political economy. 
CNN war porn, 'shock and awe' and a set designed in Hollywood
Get PDFThe role of the media in civil society is to inform and illuminate in the public interest, to provide the public with an informed basis upon which they can exercise their demoractic rights. Nothing changes during wartime. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham once remarked, 'As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
FORUM: Exposing the contradictions
Get PDFIt is good to see that Pacific Journalism Review is being relaunched at Auckland University of Technology and I congratulate David Robie for spearheading this project. When I was an AUT journalism lecturer, I used to use excerpts from PJR articles in the Public Affairs Reporting course, especially in relation to indigenous and 'ethnic' media. - Jill Oven
Watching the war against Iraq through pan-Arab satellite TV
Get PDFIt was the first Gulf War in 1991 which led to the satellite television explosion in the Arab world. Arabs then knew about Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait through CNN. Today, Arab satellite channels reach almost every Arab capital and many Middle Eastern and African nations — from Mauritania on the Atlantic coast to Iran in the east, from Syria in the north to Djibouti in the south. This battle for the airwaves and boom in satellite channels in the Arab world has become both a tool for integration and dispersion. It is raising a glimpse of hope that the flow of information will no longer be pouring from the West to the East, but from the East to the West. Questions, however, remain about the credibility of news coverage by Arabic networks like the maverick Qatar-based al-Jazeera and whether Arab journalists adhere to journalistic norms upheld in the West
The construction of a national Maori identity by Maori media
Get PDFThis article discusses the Maori construction of a national Maori identity by the Maori media, and by Maori radio in particular. It then suggests that this is creating a Maori nation within the state of New Zealand. This is an important development for Maori and for the future of New Zealand society. The article suggests that Maori are creating a fully developed identity as required by the radical democratic theories of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, and, as such, will provide a practical case study of their theories.