Pacific Media Watch

17 July 2016

GLOBAL: Kalafi Moala tells journalism educators ‘include Pacific in your media’

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Kalafi Moala ... Pacific given no chance to voice human rights violations. Image: TJ Aumua/PMC
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The editor and publisher of the Tongan newspaper Taimi 'o Tonga, Kalafi Moala, told global journalists and media educators they must begin to include Pacific people in their media and course curricula.

Moala said this during his plenary closing address at the 4th World Journalism Education Congress held at the Auckland University of Technology.

He emphasised the notion that the Pacific is often treated as a second-class citizen, and is not given a chance to voice its human rights abuses to the world.

Read the full story at Asia Pacific Report

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