Asian Journalism Fellow 2009
Violet Cho, an ethnic Karen refugee who writes for Irawaddy magazine in Thailand, was the first Asian journalist to come to New Zealand under the AUT Pacific Media Centre’s inaugural Asian Journalism Fellowship funded by the Asia New Zealand Foundation in 2009.
Cho, who fled Burma with her family to begin life in a Thai refugee camp in 1991, was a resource journalist with the PMC for staff and students during her time in New Zealand in 2009. She also completed a BCS (Hons) dissertation entitled New media and Burmese diaspora identities in New Zealand.