Research at the Pacific Media Centre

The are a number of research opportunities available through the PMC network. PMC also provides links to several research papers.

Media Research Scholarships

Pacific Media Centre Scholarships/Contestable Funds

Journalist-in-residence fellowship and PhD research scholarship. Inquiries: pmc@aut.ac.nz
Faculty postgraduate scholarships
Application forms for PMC or CIRI funding grants

Bruce Jesson Critical Journalism Prize

The Bruce Jesson Critical Writing Fund provides financial support of up to $3000 each year for critical, informed, analytical and creative journalism or writing which will contribute to public debate in New Zealand on an important issue or issues.

Applications
Inquiries: brucejesson@hotmail.com

Pacific Media Papers

Australian Press Council (1999). Australian Press Council Fellow 1999: David Robie - Collection of Pacific papers, speeches, edited by Jack Herman

Bacon, Wendy (2006). Journalism as research? The case for better recognition for journalism as research in the academe - expanded version of the article in Australian Journalism Review 28(2)

Berney, Jane C., and David Robie (2008). Don't publish and be damned: An advocacy media case study. Global Media Journal, 2(1).
• Slideshow at JEANZ conference, December 2007

Bertrand, Claude-Jean (2006) M*A*S - Media Accountability Systems The author's guidelines for M*A*S
Go to his website for more detail http://www.media-accountability.org/

Community Para-legal Task Force on Human Rights (2007). Documenting the Treatment of Detainees and Prisoners by Security Forces in the Kingdom of Tonga. May.

Creative NZ/Auckland City Council (2007). Asian Aucklanders and the Arts: Attitudes, attendance and participation in 2006 . May.

Crocombe, Ron (2006). Elite communication between the Pacific Islands and Asia: A new paradigm evolving - AMIC Pacific plenary conference keynote paper, July 17-20

Gounder, C. (2007). Fiji 2000: Journalists and the George Speight coup , Pacific Journalism Review 13(1): pp. 125-141

Harre, L. (2007). Union Relevance in Aotearoa in the 21st Century , Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture, 9 November.

Hollings, J. (2007). Still European and female, but older: Profiling the New Zealand journalist , Pacific Journalism Review 13(1): pp. 183-193

Lind, C. (2007). Beyond the ballot box: East Timor's struggle for democracy . Dominion Post, July 14, pp. E1-E2.

Maclellan, Nic (2006). From Fiji to Fallujah: The war in Iraq and the privatisation of Pacific security Pacific Journalism Review 12(2)

McGregor, Judy (2006). The pervasive power of man-made news Pacific Journalism Review 12(1)

McGregor, Judy; Lind, Clive; Geary, Shona; Misa, Tapu; Robie, David and Zweifel, Walter (2007). New Zealand Media Observation Mission Report: 2007 Timor-Leste Elections Wellington: NZ Electoral Commission

Masalai i Tokaut (2007). Alan Oxley, Rimbunan Hijau and the Australian Government. No 51. November 1. www.masalai-i-tokaut.com

Mason, Anthony (2005). Fiji journalism pioneer remembers: Vijendra Kumar Pacific Journalism Review 11(2)

Mason, A. (2007). Reporting the Fiji coups: Elite sources, journalistic practice and the status quo , Pacific Journalism Review 13(1): pp. 107-123

Mason, Anthony (2005). The media and the coup leader: Sitiveni Rabuka Pacific Journalism Review 11(2)

Matbob, Patrick, and Evangelia Papoutsaki (2006). West Papuan 'independence' and the Papua New Guinea press , Pacific Journalism Review 12(2)

Media for Development Initiative (2007). Nationwide Media Audience Survey [Papua New Guinea] - Final report, March 2007: Baseline media audience data on access, content and voice to be used to measure the progress and impact of MDI

Media for Development Initiative (2007). State of Media report Governance and Development [Papua New Guinea] - produced by Diwai Pacific Ltd, managed by the Media Council of PNG with funding assistance from AusAID and the PNG Government

Pacific Media and Communications Facility (2005). Informing Citizens: Opportunities for Media and Communications in the Pacific (2.5MB) - A situational analysis and needs assessment of media and communications in the Forum Island countries of the Pacific

Pearson, Mark and Naomi Busst (2006). Anti-terror laws and the media after 9/11: Three models in Australia, NZ and the Pacific

Revington, M. (2000). Fiji: Guns and money NZ Listener

Robie, David (2006). An Independent Student Press: Three Case Studies from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Aotearoa/New Zealand AsiaPacific MediaEducator, No 17, December.

Robie, David (2006). Barbouzes, bullets and beat-ups: South Pacific media realities Media-Asia Research Group conference plenary paper

Robie, David (2001). Coup coup land: The press and the putsch in Fiji , AsiaPacific MediaEducator, No 10, Jan-June.

Robie, D. (2007). Diversity and the media: The Pacific Media Centre initiative. Paper presented at the Journalism Education Association of NZ (JEANZ) Conference, Wellington, 10-11 December 2007 [slideshow].

Robie, David (2007). Foreign aid in Pacific media education: Panacea or Pandora's box? 16th Asian Media, Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) Conference/1st World Journalism Education Congress, Singapore, 25-28 June.

Robie, David (1999). Pacific newsrooms and the campus: Some comparisons between Fiji and Papua New Guinea Australian Studies in Journalism, No 8.

Robie, David (2005). South Pacific notions of the Fourth Estate: A collision of media models, culture and values Asia Media 32(2).

Robie, D. (2007). The Rainbow Warrior bombers, media and the judiciary: public interest v privacy. Paper presented at the Journalism Education Association of NZ (JEANZ) Conference, Wellington, 10-11 December 2007 [slideshow].

Rosenberg, Bill (2007). New Zealand Media Ownership. Evolving paper (latest 15 July 2007):

Singh, Shailendra, and Som Prakash (2006). Politics, democracy and the media: Case studies in Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands

Utanga, John (2007). Pasifika media in the digital era Pacific Journalism Review, 13(1): pp. 19-28.