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New graduate diploma in Pacific journalism in 2010

By student ⋅ October 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

By Sarah Urlich
The growing need for Pacific journalists will be addressed with the introduction of a new journalism programme at AUT.
The Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism, which was announced at last Friday’s PIMA conference, is a one-year qualification aimed at training journalists to report in the Pacific region.
The course, which will start in 2010, will work parallel to [...]

New Pacific channel seeks funding

By Dominika White ⋅ October 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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Funding is holding up a potential Pacific TV channel, said two media practitioners behind the move at the PIMA forum at AUT last Friday.
Spasifik magazine publisher Innes Logan and Tagata Pasifika executive producer Stephen Stehlin told the crowd that their move to establish a Pacific channel was moving forward, but was still yet to gain momentum.
Stehlin [...]

Debate over Pasifika artists’ music royalties

By Carly Tawhiao ⋅ October 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
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Pacific Island and Maori songwriters and composers are not being well served by APRA, a music royalty collection society, according to Pacific event organiser Stan Wolfgramm.
Stan Wolfgramm, director of Style Pasifika and Drum Productions, which produces TV3’s Pacific Beat Street, used the PIMA conference to advocate for the rights of Pasifika artists and the role [...]

More Pacific Island reporters in mainstream media

By Rhiannon Horrell ⋅ October 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Barriers against Pacific Islanders entering the mainstream media are just a perception, according to a panel of prominent New Zealand journalists.
Pippa Wetzell, Barbara Dreaver, Tati Urale, Daniel Faitaua, Kris Fa’afo’i, Susana Talagi and Vaimoana Tapaleao shared their views last Friday at the PIMA conference at AUT.
One of the major themes to emerge was that these [...]

Pac to the future

By KEIRA STEPHENSON ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
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“If a Palangi farts it makes the front page, but for an ethnic minority to get into the news in New Zealand they have to rape or kill someone.”
This was the opinion of Thakur Ranjit Singh at the 8th Pacific Media Conference, held at AUT on Friday.
He was commenting on the fact that Aotearoa’s ethnic [...]

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