Moana wins Maori Television Prize and Storyboard
Title -- 5369 NZ: Moana wins Maori Television prize and Storyboard
Date -- 13 March 2008
Byline -- None
Origin -- Pacific Media Watch
Source -- AUT Journalism 12/03/08
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MOANA WINS MAORI TELEVISION PRIZE AND STORYBOARD
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AUCKLAND (AUT Journalism/Pacific Media Watch): A graduating AUT University journalist who has covered marae fire safety and health and social issue feature stories for Mana and Spasifik magazines has won the new diversity journalism award for the year.
Vaimoana Tapaleao, who is now working for the New Zealand Herald as South Auckland reporter, covered a wide range of diversity stories for her final year of the Bachelor of Communication Studies programme.
She was presented with the Maori Television Prize and Storyboard Award by Julian Wilcox, presenter of Maori Television's flagship current affairs programme Native Affairs, at AUT University's School of Communication Studies annual graduation awards last night.
The Storyboard Award, an East Sepik carving from Papua New Guinea, was donated by AUT's Pacific Media Centre director Dr David Robie, a former head of the University of Papua New Guinea journalism programme.
“There isn't much diversity reporting in mainstream New Zealand media today - especially when it comes to Maori and Pacific issues,” says Tapaleao. “So whenever I could, I would write a story with that in mind.”
Some of the topics she covered during the year were an expansion in Samoan soccer, a Polyfest story focusing on Kelston Girls' College, a missionary's journey to Nauru, “taken by fire” - a feature looking at safety issues on marae, a surveillance story and cervical screening in the Pasifika community.
Last year's inaugural Maori Television Prize and Storyboard Award for diversity journalism were won by Qiane Corfield, now a journalist on Mana magazine.
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