Blessen Tom and Sri Krishnamurthi in the Pacific Media Centre newsroom after filming interviews. Image: David Robie/PMC
Fair Go assistant producer and a recent AUT graduate Blessen Tom and current postgraduate student Sri Krishnamurthi embarked in May on a storytelling project about Pacific Media Watch.
They are interviewing the founders and some of the journalists and students involved on the media freedom project, which was launched in 1996 at the time of the jailing of the so-called Tongan Three for contempt of Parliament for publishing a document about an impending impeachment.
Krishnamurthi, originally from Fiji, was a news agency journalist for many years.
Watch for their completed video when the documentary project is completed.
Both have won awards for their previous media work at AUT.
The completed 2019 video - Pacific Media Watch Project - The Genesis
Sri Krishnamurthi
Pacific Research 2018 project journalist
Blessen Tom
Bearing Witness climate project 2018