AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Islands Forum chief has handed out praises to a group of Pacific journalists at a two-day pre-forum media workshop in Auckland.
Addressing the workshop organised jointly by the Forum Secretariat and PINA, Secretary-General Secretary-General Tuiloma Neroni Slade reaffirmed the importance and seriousness of the work of journalists in the region.
The Forum was also aware of the responsibility journalists had in their profession and the need for them to safeguard the right and freedom of the community in their work.
He told Pacific and New Zealand journalists that the Forum fully supported their work and the workshop.
Tuiloma also reminded journalists to report with objectivity, accuracy and fairness.
He thanked PINA for the memorandum of understanding and the working relationship it had with the Forum and added that the secretariat would continue to work towards developing the professionalism and skills of journalists through such workshops.
The pre-forum PINA workshop involved 20 journalists from various media organisations in Pacific countries as well as participants from the Pasifika media industry in New Zealand and students attached to AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre.
NZ Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs Chris Seed opened the workshop and wished the journalists well for their coverage of the Forum starting on Wednesday.
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Henry Yamo
