Pacific Journalism Review (Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology)
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FORUM: UNICEF editorial: Open letter to Laisa Taga
No full text"I would like to raise some issues in response to your editorial in the May 2002 issue of Pacific/Islands Business, in particular with reference to your comment about UNICEF's "choice" of media to attend the UN General Assesbly Special Session on Children in New York...
Fiji media and salaries: News sells- but journos face 'poverty'
Get PDF'We would all love to earn more. But taking the economic and political situation into account, I believe a number of journalists have proved that through hard work, dedication and a high degree of professionalism they can make a successful career for themselves in the media.
Media ethics in elections: Coverage of crises 8
No full textThe context of an election makes little difference to the way the journalist practises his or her profession. The basics are all the same. We do not adopt a different set of values because a group of politicians are vying for power. 
Student baptism of fire: Reporting the kerosene lamp blasts
Get PDFStudent journalists have learned lessons from spate of deadly kerosene lamp explosions in Madang, Papua New Guinea. The blasts, which killed four people and injured 43 others, provided the students with an unprecedented oppurtunity to hone newgathering and writing skills. 
Champion of the free press
Get PDFString thirty three coral atolls together and you have Kiribati, one of the smallest countries in the world. Scatter these scratches of coral across an area of the Pacific Ocean equivalent to the United States of America, and you start to comprehend the immutable obstacles facing this precarious little nation's existence just north of the equator. 
Live with 'Radio Tevita': PROFILES IN THE MEDIA: Tevita Momoedonu
No full textElection fever and news ways of campaigning were a colourful part of the 2001 Fiji elections. With the elections came innovative ways from the media industry in educating people and making them aware of issues. 
Fiji military exorcise ghosts: Coverage of Crises 9
No full textFijians were at the polls in the final week of August 2001 following the George Speight attempted coup in May 2000], but with a court martial of rebel soldiers due, Fiji faced not just a divided society but also a divided military.
Pictured: Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama in the Queen Elizaneth Barracks, Suva / Ben Bohan
Behind the gold medals: PROFILES IN THE MEDIA: Wainikiti Waqa-Bogidrau
No full text'The culture of silence that engulfs most Fijian students needs to be discouraged, and those who have failed must remember that there is nothing wrong with failure— but there is plenty wrong in giving up.
Asia-Pacific overview: Coverage of crises 11
No full textBy and large, however, the press in democractic Asia is threated less by government action than by government inaction in the face of violent attacks against journalists. Seven Asian journalists were killed for their work in 2000, nearly all of them in countries with an aggressive independent press but weak in or politicised law enforcement agencies. 
'I couldn't stop crying': The Uni Tavur Testimony 1
No full textIt was dubbed Black Tuesday - the night four people were shot dead during protests against World Bank structural adjustment policies in Papua New Guinea. The University of PNG journalism newspaper Uni Tavur published a special edition on 30 July 2001 with several students' accounts of their experience. Here are the stories of two young women