SUVA (Pacific Media Watch / USP News): The University of the South Pacific has highlighted its collaboration with AUT University and the Pacific Media Centre in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.
In an article published on the university's website, USP states that the university "continues to pioneer, drive and foster research in the region, including the critical, but under-studied, news media sector".
The latest collaboration between USP and one of its longstanding strategic partners, AUT University, has resulted in a themed-edition by Pacific Journalism Review on Media and Democracy in the Pacific.
The award-winning peer-reviewed Pacific Journalism Review is the only research journal that specialises in media issues in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand and has strong links with USP.
Founded by the former head of USP journalism, Professor David Robie, it was published out of USP for several years before moving to AUT University, where Dr Robie works as director of the Pacific Media Centre.
The latest edition, Volume 19, Issue 1, was co-edited by Professor Robie and USP academic Shailendra Singh, who is currently pursuing doctorate studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Both Singh and Robie have contributed papers to the journal – Singh on the preliminary findings of his doctoral research on conflict reporting in Fiji, and Robie on his revised “four worlds” news values and journalism strategies in the Pacific.
Previous cooperation
This is the second PJR put together by USP Journalism and the AUT's PMC in the School of Communication Studies following the September 2007 edition on 'Media and Digital Democracy'.
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Pacific Journalism Review has maintained its ties with the USP journalism division, as well as having a strong Pacific media research focus.
The journal won a Creative Stimulus Award for academic publications in the inaugural Academy Awards of the Global Creative Industries in 2011.
Some papers in this edition were presented by Pacific journalists and media analysts at a Media and Democracy in the South Pacific conference hosted by USP last September.
Among the papers is one by USP’s Master of Arts in Journalism graduate Shazia Usman, based on her study on the Fiji print media’s coverage of female candidates in the country’s 2006 general elections.
An article in PJR by Courtney Wilson and Heather Devere of Otago University’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies examines the role of Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report programme in relation to conflict reporting in the region.
Other contributors include Canadian communications professor Robert Hackett and American television professor Robert Hooper, who has been training Pacific journalists frequently for the past 20 years.
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