Sayed-Khaiyum's message for Fiji journalists ... "analyse and question more". Photo: Radio Fiji

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By Nanise Nawalowao in Suva

Fiji’s Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has called on journalists to think outside the box and cover vital stories facing a nation.
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Children climbing on dead mangroves in Kiribati. Photo: Maria Timon/PJR

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By the Pacific Media Centre news desk

Trauma and exiled writers, the challenge of environmental journalism in Delta land, issues of editorial “slant” in health reporting and use of te reo Māori in newspapers are some of the topics featured in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review.
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Pacific Press Release – Pacific Media Watch, 25 September 2009

6454 Otago Daily Times editorial: THE BALIBO FIVE

DUNEDIN (Otago Daily Times/Pacific Media Watch): As we flick through the pages, the channels and the websites of our daily news services, it is hardly surprising we rest more lightly on stories that reference events in distant places long ago – events such as the killing of four Australian [including two Britons] and one New Zealand newsmen in the village of Balibo, East Timor, on October 16, 1975.
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Pacific Press Release – Bruce Jesson Foundation, 21 September 2009

New Bruce Jesson emerging journalism prize

The Bruce Jesson Foundation was established in 1999 to commemorate one of New Zealand’s greatest political journalists, the late Bruce Jesson, by promoting vigorous political, social and economic investigation, debate, analysis and reporting in New Zealand.

To this end, since its inception the Foundation has sponsored an annual Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture in Auckland and, since 2004, it has awarded an annual Bruce Jesson Journalism Prize. The latter award involves an emolument of up to NZ$3000 to assist writers aiming to produce the kind of critical and analytical journalism exemplified by Jesson’s work as a columnist in Metro magazine, as editor of The Republican and as the author of several influential pieces of book journalism. It is self-nominated and dedicated to in-depth journalism projects on public issues that might not be undertaken, completed, or published without non-commercial subsidy.
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Illegal arms in PNG ... among many issues needing investigation. Photo: New Dawn FM

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By Edwin Fidelis, Fidelis Regamba and Fidelis Lucio in Madang

Papua New Guinea is lucky to have freedom of the press – but journalists should investigate more.

This is the view of Lea Thompson, a visiting investigative journalist from the United States.
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