SYDNEY (Journalism Education Association of Australia / Pacific Media Watch): A senior Papua New Guinean broadcast journalist with a training role for the national broadcaster has won a scholarship to the annual Journalism Education Association of Australia (JEAA) conference in Adelaide in November.
Mulai Robby, chief news editor for radio and television news at the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), has won the Pacific Islands Nations Award, the JEAA announced.
Robby's role involves a longstanding and ongoing commitment to training journalists at NBC, including new recruits, and he is a regular training facilitator.
Mulai offered two abstracts for the conference, on the development and use of social media in journalism in PNG, and on the characteristics of “responsible journalism” in PNG culture and society.
This award is for a journalist, journalism academic, trainer or postgraduate student from a Pacific Island nation.
Last year, the scholarship was won by Thakur Ranjit Singh, a former Fiji newspaper publisher who was completing a masters in communication studies degree attached to the Pacific Media Centre in New Zealand.
The 2011 Postgraduate Scholarship has been awarded to Peter English, an experienced sports journalist in the first year of his PhD at University of the Sunshine Coast.
The judges found Peter’s abstract – on a comparative analysis of sports coverage in the print and online editions of six Australian and UK newspapers – to be clearly expressed and indicative of a well-developed piece of work.
The scholarship winners receive grants of up to A$2000 each to enable them to attend the JEAA conference in Adelaide on November 28-30.
The judges were Anne Dunn, president,of the JEAA, and Kathryn Bowd, vice-president conference, JEAA.
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