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Promoting Asia-Pacific journalism - David Robie
AUT Professor in communication studies and author David Robie believes greater scrutiny of Pacific media and more research will contribute much to the communications industry
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David Robie has played a key role in establishing the Pacific Media Centre as part of the A profile on staff, researchers and students involved in the Pacific Media Centre.
The Pacific Journalism Review, the only journal to investigate media issues in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, is expanding its interest to the broader impact of contemporary media practice and education.
The peer-reviewed journal which is published twice-yearly is a primary research output of the Pacific Media Centre (PMC) and is edited by the centre’s director Professor David Robie.
Professor Robie says while one objective of the journal is research into Pacific journalism theory and practice, it is also expanding its interest into new areas of research and inquiry that reflect the broader impact of contemporary media practice and education.
The May 2010 issue of the journal, with the theme “Reporting Wars”, includes articles on trends in war reporting, the relationship between journalists and aid workers and the experiences of New Zealand journalists covering overseas conflicts.
Previous issues have focussed on “The Public Right to Know” (October 2009) and “Diversity, Identity and the Media” (May 2009).
Another of the PMC’s activities is maintaining Pacific Media Watch, a digital archive of dispatches about Pacific journalism and media, which has been run by centre staff and postgraduate students since 2008. It also jointly publishes the high profile independent Pacific Scoop news website with Scoop Media, with contributions from postgraduate students and analysis from respected regional academics –http://pacific.scoop.co.nz
The Pacific Media Centre (Te Amokura) was established in 2007 as part of the university’s Creative Industries Research Institute. The centre focuses on Māori, Pasifika and ethnic diversity media as well as community development. It also collaborates with other Asia-Pacific media centres, including the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and the University of the South Pacific regional journalism programme.
The PMC has about a dozen researchers and research associates, who include leading media academics from the Pacific, and working journalists. Among them is Jon Stephenson, who has reported on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and natural disasters including the 2004 Asia-Pacific tsunami.
Another working journalist associated with the PMC, is masters in communication studies student Selwyn Manning, co-editor of Pacific Scoop. The PMC will stage an inaugural conference in December that looks at a number of issues central to the media in this region and internationally.
Conference chair Professor David Robie says the three-day Media, Investigative Journalism & Technology event will have a multidisciplinary programme aimed at attendees from around the world.
“This international conference is dedicated to bringing together the diverse aspects of media in an open forum for interdisciplinary collaboration and networking,” says Professor Robie.
The event is intended to advance the centre’s mission of promoting informed journalism and media research to contribute to economic, political and social development in the region.
Keynote speakers will include Nepali journalist Kunda Dixit, who worked for the BBC in New York and reported in the Pacific as Asia-Pacific director of Inter Press Service, and Professor Wendy Bacon, an Australian investigative journalist and media lawyer with a long history of campaigning on free speech issues.
Bacon is a director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at Sydney’s University of Technology which, along with the University of the South Pacific regional journalism programme, is a PMC collaboration partner. She has contributed to the Pacific Journalism Review.
About Professor David Robie
Professor David Robie, is the Director of the Pacific Media Centre, and a journalist of 20 years focused mainly on covering the Asia-Pacific region. he has reported on post-colonial coups, indigenous struggles for independence and environmental and development issues. David became an professor at Auckland University of Technology in 2005 and works within the School of Communication Studies.
Email: david.robie@aut.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext 7834
Blog: Café Pacific
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Pacific Media Centre
Informed journalism and media research contributes to economic, political and social development and AUT University's Pacific Media Centre - TE AMOKURA - seeks to stimulate research into contemporary Māori, Pasifika and ethnic diversity media and culture production. PMC also collaborates with other Asia-Pacific media centres engaged in research and cultural production and develops cultural and research publications, building on the success of the peer-reviewed publication Pacific Journalism Review and current affairs website Pacific Scoop.
Robust and informed media research
The Pacific Media Centre’s mission as one of the five components of the Creative Industries Research Institute (CIRI) is based on the belief that robust and informed journalism and media research contributes to economic, political and social development in the region.
PMC goals include:
- Undertaking and stimulating research into contemporary Māori, Pacific and ethnic diversity media and culture production
- Raising research capability in the area of media production
- Presenting and publishing the findings of media research
- Winning funding from government and industry partners that support research into media production
- Developing collaborations and relationships with other Asia-Pacific centres of research excellence in media and cultural production
- Developing editorial and publications capability, including Pacific Journalism Review and Pacific Scoop.
Related study options
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- Bachelor of Communication Studies
- Graduate Diploma in Advertising Creativity
- Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism
- Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies
- Bachelor of Creative Technologies
Research links
- CIRI (Creative industries Research institute)
- Pacific Media Centre
- Pacific Journalism Review
- Pacific Media Watch
- Pacific Scoop
Contact us:
Phone: +64 9 921-9388
Fax: +64 9 921-9987
Email: pmc@aut.ac.nz