Mary Rauto
SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): Journalists need to become part of the solution instead of being part of the problem in conflicts in the South Pacific.
Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie made the call at a media and democracy conference at the University of the South Pacific yesterday.
Speaking on "Four world's news values revisited: A deliberative journalism paradigm for Pacific media", Dr Robie said deliberative and critical development journalism had an essential role to play in democracy and the future of the South Pacific.
He also said "a new generation of educated journalists has a responsibility to provide this".
"The deliberative journalist seeks to expose the truth and report on alternatives and solutions."
Dr Robie said deliberative journalism involved empowerment of a country's citizens
He said it was providing people with information and the capacity to do something about improving their lives.
"It involves writing information that enables people to make choices for social change," he said.
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