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Pacific.Scoop is a new regional “hub” partnership venture between AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre and the independent news portal Scoop.
The centre is based in the School of Communication Studies where postgraduate Pacific student journalists and other media students with an interest in Pasifika affairs will be filing regular stories.
Other students on regional and international internships will be reporting too. Students on the Asia-Pacific Journalism postgraduate programme and the new 2010 Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism will also be filing.
The idea is to produce a distinct blend of news, current affairs and analysis – a fresh and independent “voice” of the Pacific.
We are keen to tell the hidden stories and address justice for the marginalised.
Education, culture, creativity, environment, health, human rights, media, social justice, resource development, regional security and technology are just some of the topics high on our reportage list.
Supplementing our daily file from students will be articles by academic staff, regional journalists and civil society advocates and analysts.
Together with AUT, the Divine Word University in Madang, Papua New Guinea; National University of Samoa; and University of the South Pacific journalism schools will also be filing stories, images and multimedia for Pacific.Scoop.
We will also have a link with the Reportage-Enviro student website at the UTS Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ), which is committed to “promoting an alternative voice in the global environmental debate with news that challenges consensus or raises awareness on under-exposed issues”.
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More information about the Pacific Media Centre and its other publications is here.
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Backgrounder on the Pacific.Scoop vision here.
Contacts: pacific@scoop.co.nz
Pacific Scoop editor: Dr David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre
Co-editor: Selwyn Manning of Scoop and former chair of the PMC
Contributing editor: Alex Perrottet
Fiji coordinators: Dr Marc Edge and Irene Manueli, University of the South Pacific
Papua New Guinea coordinators: Br Michael McManus and Patrick Matbob
Samoa coordinator: Vicky Lepou, Journalism Lecturer, National University of Samoa’s Institute of Technology
Sydney coordinator: Nick Evershed, manager-editor of Reportage-Enviro, University of Technology, Sydney.
Snail mail:
Pacific Media Centre
School of Communication Studies
Private Bag 92006
Wellesley St
Auckland 1142
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Tel: (649) 921 9999 x7834
Fax: (649) 921 9987
Web: www.pmc.aut.ac.nz
On twitter: twitter/pacmedcentre
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To Josephine Latu,
Enjoyed your articles as they are factual and direct. Can you please enlighten me on this issue. Among the donations to the tsunami in Niuatoputapu was a sizable contribution from an International body, which was over the $1 million mark?? This donation was given at the same time when the same body made a major donation to Samoa. I remembered reading it very early on but this information has been omitted, and no one has raised it since. There needs to be a list of the donations made to Niuatoputapu from the government, and where the money goes to. There was a generous donation from the Methodist church ($1 million+), given by the President.
Cheers,
Viliami