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Postgraduate student
Josephine Latu, from Tonga, a masters in communication studies student at AUT University, is working part-time in the PMC as a contributing editor on the Pacific Media Watch resource and database. She also edits the PMC website.
PMC publications
Del Abcede does the layout/production of the PMC research journal Pacific Journalism Review and the Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication's research journal Access. She also edits the PMC newsletter Toktok.
Internship
Micheal Soon, a Bachelor of Arts student from AUT with an interest in environmental issues, is currently on a a one-semester work cooperative internship.
For more information about internships, contact: A/Professor David Robie david.robie@aut.ac.nz
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AUT Tower
Rutland St entrance
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Opposite Aotea Square
Wellesley Campus
Phone: +64 9 921-9388
Fax: +64 9 921-9987
Email: pmc@aut.ac.nz
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Pacific Media Centre
D-63 School of Communication Studies
Private Bag 92006
Auckland 1142
Phone: +64 9 921-9388
Fax: +64 9 921-9987
Email: pmc@aut.ac.nz
Looking for nearby accommodation when visiting the Pacific Media Centre: www.bedandbreakfasts.net.nz
People
PMC advisory board
- John Utanga (chair), Producer, Tagata Pasifika, TVNZ
- Dr Ruth Desouza, Coordinator, Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research, AUT
- Professor Barry King, Associate Dean (International), AUT
- Innes Logan, publisher, Spasifik Magazine
- Selwyn Manning, Co-editor, Scoop news website
- Dr Camille Nakhid, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, AUT
- Isabella Rasch, Pasifika Student Support Adviser, AUT
- Kitea Tipuna, Equity Policy Adviser, AUT
- Professor Marilyn Waring, Institute for Public Policy, AUT
- Tui O'Sullivan, Equity Adviser for the Faculty of Creative Technologies, AUT
- Professor Wendy Bacon, director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
CIRI director: Professor Olaf Diegel.
Director: Associate Professor David Robie is an author, journalist and media educator specialising in Asia-Pacific affairs. He holds a PhD in history/politics from the University of the South Pacific and a masters degree in journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a former head of journalism at both the University of Papua New Guinea and USP in Fiji for a decade. He was the 1999 Australian Press Council Fellow and a 2009 'Atenisi University Fellow, Tonga. Founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review, he is also the author of several books on Asia-Pacific media and politics, including Mekim Nius: South Pacific media, politics and education.
Pacific Media Watch researcher 2007: Taberannang Korauaba is from Kiribati and a Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours) student in AUT's School of Communication Studies on a Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) scholarship. A former journalist and editor from the Broadcasting Publications Authority (BPA) on Tarawa, he is now publisher of the I-Kiribati newsletter Tematairiki in New Zealand and a journalist with NiuFM.
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor 2008/9: Josephine Latu is from Tonga and is a masters student in communication studies at AUT University. She received a BA in political science and French in 2003 from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa as an East-West Centre scholar. She has worked as a journalist and layout/graphics designer for Tongan Woman magazine and Tonfon, a leading telecommunications company in Tonga, including as a reporter for Tonfon TV.
Research associate: Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki is a senior lecturer in international communication at Unitec, Auckland. Former head of the Department of Communication Arts, Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea, she is co-author of Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea and South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues, and facilitator of the South Pacific Islands Communication Forum (SPICF) research collective. Research profile
Research associate: Dr Lee Duffield worked on ABC radio and television news in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney for more than 20 years before beginning his academic career. He was the first news editor on the Australian youth radio network Triple Jay, and was the ABC European Correspondent at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He is currently a senior lecturer in journalism at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. His research interests include development journalism with a main focus on Pacific countries; and internationalisation of the curriculum in journalism education.
Research associate: Shailendra Singh is senior lecturer and divisional head of journalism at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. He lectures in print and online journalism and media law and ethics. Holding a Masters in BusAdmin USP and a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching, he is an experienced Fiji newspaper and magazine editor, and business journalist. He is a former editor of The Review, Pacific Business and content editor of fijiLive.com, associate editor of the Daily Post and currently consulting editor of Living in Fiji and an Inter Press Service correspondent.
Research associate: Dr Murray Masterton is a New Zealand journalist and
author who has worked in the UK, Canada and Australasia. After many
years in senior news editor/management and production roles, he began a
journalism academic career in Australia (Hartley CAE, Adelaide and
Deakin University ). He earned one of Australia’s first PhDs in
journalism with his study What Makes News News? As a Commonwealth Fund
for Technical Cooperation (CFTC) appointee, he established the
University of the South Pacific’s first Certificate in Journalism
programme in the late 1980s. He has lectured for the Asian Media
Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) across South and Southeast
Asia.
Research associate: Dr Trevor Cullen is Head of Journalism at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. His doctoral thesis focused on press coverage of HIV/AIDS in the Pacific region, and for the past 10 years he has delivered papers on the topic at international health and media conferences in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Malaysia, Egypt, China, Kenya, United States, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. Since 1998, he has conducted several workshops for journalists on "Reporting health and HIV" in Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Tonga and Australia. He has won many teaching and research awards, including the national 2008 Carrick Institute Award for outstanding contribution to student learning.
Research associate: Dr Allison Oosterman joined the New Zealand Herald as a journalist in 1969 after she graduated with her BA from the University of Auckland. She also trained as a teacher and taught at Otahuhu College for two years. Once her children were school age she returned to journalism eventually becoming the editor of a national food industry magazine. Higher learning called and she was an inaugural student on AUTs MA programme. She then became part of the teaching staff in the School of Communication Studies where she currently teaches on the journalism programme as a senior lecturer. In 2009 she graduated with her PhD from the school. Her research interest is New Zealands early press history.
Research associate: Alan Samson, a journalism lecturer at Massey University in Wellington, has research interests in media ethics, media law, and science. Most recently, a reporter for nearly 20 years at The Dominion newspaper, his stories included the 1987 Fiji coup, the Aramoana mass killings, the long-running Peter Ellis child molestation case, and the 2000-2001 Royal Commission on Genetic Modification. He is a several-times Qantas winner and finalist, including for crime and science reporting, three times a CRI science writer winner, and a winner of the NZ Skeptics critical reporting award. From 2001 to 2009 he sat on the New Zealand Press Council.
