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Elections and the media
Get PDFAn examination of the reporting of general elections from the perspective of the Australian Press Council presented at the University of the South Pacific with an eye to the Fiji election in May 1999. 
Editors play down risk: MEDIA BUY OUTS 6
No full textThe Daily Post's editor, Jale Moala, and news editor, Mesake Koroi disagree with the view that the sale of the nespaper is a threat to media independence. In this interview, they make a rare statement, defending the Daily Post's independence. 
EDITORIAL: Media and free expression
Get PDFWhen rumours abounded in December 1998 about the impending sale of Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier, arguably the best daily newspaper in the South Pacific, to a consortium headed by a crony Prime Minister Bill Skate the Port Moresby media world was in a spin. It turned out to be a false alarm. However, when controlling shares in the long-struggling Fiji Daily Post were abruptly sold in Feburary 1999 to the Fiji Government, it was a different story. Protests from other media organisations were also strong—but too late. 
Freedom of the press problems in Tahiti
No full textThe editor of one of the best news and cultural magazines of the South Pacific, Tahiti-Pacifique, tells of the 18-month "freeze out" of his publication by the Flosse Government in Tahiti and how his editorial team finally came in from the cold. 
Talent on FM96 airwaves: PROFILES IN THE MEDIA: Samantha Magick
No full textOne of Fiji radio's most skilled and experienced jouranlists talks about her career on tv, print and on air— before she takes on a new media challenge with Greenpeace Pacific. 
FORUM: Account transfer
No full text"We are in receipt of your letter dated 28 April 1998 requesting that the balance of the Pacific Journalism Review account SPA 1407 of K1783.42 be transferred to the University of the South Pacific. Rregrettably we cannot accommodate this request...
Surfing, sinking and swimming in the WTO
Get PDFExperiences of student journalists covering SPICOL— the Student Pacific Island Conference of Leaders— at the University of the South Pacific Laucala campus on the future of thw World Trade Organisation in the region. 
PNG stories win six Walkleys
Get PDFThe mainsteam Australian media has often ignored the Pacific Islands region. But in December 1988, when the Wakley Award winners were announced, no fewer than six categories were won by media people for work done in the region— most for items dealing with Papua New Guinea's tragic Aitape tsunami disaster in July. 
Lighting the fire for media freedom
Get PDF'In Samoa, the media can be decribed as a tree that has no shadow. It offers neither shelter nor hope. It can be described as a flower that blooms but then quickly withers, as if afraid of the sunlight. Others see it as a confused animal; a sick dog which barks but won't bite because it is afraid.
The pitfalls of inquiries: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM 3
No full textDiscovering the "facts"— and the truth— means jouranlists must push, probe, pry, unsettle, expose, inform, and report ... and pass judgement on others. But beware of these risks.