News in the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies - Te Ara Auaha
PMC director gives media awards keynote, research seminar at Pacific university
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie has visited Fiji as the guest of the regional University of the South Pacific to present a keynote address at the annual journalism awards night and to present a research seminar for academics.
Journalism under threat - ‘digital first’ strategies put journalists last
Journalism in New Zealand is threatened by the constant culling of editorial jobs and current affairs programmes. The 2015 JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report observes that in this year alone 60-70 jobs were removed from newsrooms and current affairs production. This report is the fifth produced by the AUT’s research centre Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD).
Final year fashion students transformed the newly-reopened St James’ Theatre into a fashion hotspot last week.
Journalism Conference gets UNESCO Grant
AUT has won a UNESCO grant to help support the World Journalism Education Congress being hosted at the City Campus in July 2016.
AUT launches NEUlab - NZ's first advanced data science laboratory
New Zealand’s first advanced data science laboratory has opened at AUT.
AUT students head to Huawei HQ in China
Six lucky AUT students are this month getting the rare opportunity to go behind the doors of Huawei HQ in Shenzhen and see what is involved in being the world’s biggest telecommunications technology retailer.
French Ambassador visits AUT Colab
There’ll be more French digital artists-in-residence at AUT, after the university and the French Ambassador signed a Memorandum of Understanding about the newly established programme.
AUT Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab wins top prize at Best Awards 2015
AUT’s world-first in-hospital design lab took home top honours at the Country’s design awards on Friday night.
AUT Senior Lecturer nominated for Women of Influence awards
COLAB’s Senior Lecturer Sangeeta Karmokar is a nominee in this year’s Women of Influence awards.
AUT students take part in Engineers Without Borders competition
A storm water management system and wind turbines are AUT Engineering students answer for a struggling village in Cameroon.