COMMENTARY: The May edition of Pacific Journalism Review featured articles by two journalists, both about the investigation of mining issues in the Pacific region. Both articles provided a scholarly commentary contextualising and reflecting on the journalism practices involved in producing major features originally for publication elsewhere. (Abplanalp, 2012; Gooch, 2012a).
These two articles were the first contributions to what will be a new regular Frontline section in PJR. I will return to discuss them further.
The Pacific Media Centre—Te Amokura—which publishes this journal has always been concerned to link ‘robust and informed journalism’ with media research that contributes to social development both in the broader community, the media industries and inside the academy. Frontline aims to further this by addressing more directly the interface between professional or practice-based journalism and scholarly journalism research practices.
This innovation reflects new directions in academic journalism. It is worth charting some of the developments that have brought us to this point.
Read Professor Wendy Bacon's article in the October edition of PJR
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