Mads Anneberg
AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): Ricardo Morris is fighting two battles.
As journalist, editor and publisher of Repúblika Magazine in Fiji, he works tirelessly to publish and promote his publication.
And as president of the Fijian Media Association, he works to promote freedom and liberties in a media landscape where military censorship prevailed until 2012.
On September 17, Fiji returned to a parliamentary democracy almost eight years after the military coup staged by military commander Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama – now the elected prime minister, a retired rear admiral with the strongest personal mandate of any national leader since independence.
Repúblika did well in covering the elections, especially considering its limited resources. And Morris hopes the election will bring with it better possibilities for all journalists in the country.
Mads Anneberg is an Inclusive Journalism Initiative (IJI) programme student at AUT University. He is reporting on the Asia-Pacific journalism course. He has just returned from a two-week internship with Repúblika Magazine where he was a Fiji elections reporter.
Pacific Scoop’s archive of stories by our student team covering the Fiji 2014 elections.
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Mads Anneberg
