Mekim Nius media book launched in Fiji
Title -- 4585 REGION: Mekim Nius media book launched in Fiji
Date -- 13 December 2004
Byline -- None
Origin -- Pacific Media Watch
Source -- The (Fiji) Daily Post 7/12/04
Copyright - DP
Status -- Unabridged
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MEKIM NIUS FOR 'EDUCATED' JOURNALISTS
By Mithleshni Gurdayal
SUVA (Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): A new book challenging the media, education and the politics of the Pacific region has been launched by the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Rajesh Chandra.
Professor Chandra and Tongan newspaper publisher Kalafi Moala launched Mekim Nius: South Pacific Media, Politics and Education following the opening of the four-day conference on Media Literacy in the Pacific and Asia yesterday.
The book looks at Pacific journalists and carries reasons why working journalists need an "education".
It suggests that with the forces of globalisation now hitting the Pacific, journalists need to be not just trained but also "educated" so that they can deal with cultural, traditional, political and societal pressures afftecting them in their daily work as reporters and analysts.
Codes of ethics are also discussed at length in the book along with many other issues that are critical and central to day-to-day affairs of newsrooms in the region.
Most newsrooms are tasked with convering development and conflict issues and it is no easy job in a region with such cultural and political complexities.
The author, Dr David Robie, is a New Zealand journalist who has also spent almost 10 years training and educating Pacific journalists.
He is the former coordinator of the journalism programme at USP and also at the University of Papua New Guinea. He is now diversity and publications coordinator at Auckland University of Technology's School of Communication Studies.
Mekim Nius is his seventh book.
Meanwhile, journalists and journalism educators from the diverse and developing media in the Pacific and Asia have gathered in Suva to take part in the conference, hosted by the USP's journalism school.
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