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Changing Paradigms in Media Education Aid in the Pacific

David Robie

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 59-81

"Journalism education (based for most of the past three decades at three Pacific universities) and industry short-course training have followed different yet parallel paths in the region. Aid donors have played important roles in both sectors, although often not particularly well coordinated. While ... journalism education was being established in the region for the first time at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1975, media industry executives met to plan a strategy to boost on-the-job training and to defend themselves from growing pressures from post-colonial governments. The industry established the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), which became a major regional media lobby group. Subsequently, the region’s state broadcasters broke away in 1988 to form a rival body, Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association (PIBA), and to establish the region’s first news cooperative, Pacnews. For a brief three-year period between 1988 and 1991, the university journalism education sector and industry training managed reasonable cooperation under UNESCO’s Pacjourn project. During this time, UPNG hosted Pacjourn and its staff of media academics and trainers ran short-courses for the benefit of the media industry. The focus then swung back to Fiji with a new UNESCO project leading to the establishment of the PINA-initiated Pacific Journalism Training Development Centre. While the UPNG Journalism Programme was funded initially by New Zealand aid, DWU was a private institution funded primarily by the Catholic Church and staffed mainly by volunteers. The degree programme founded at USP in the mid 1990s was funded by the French government for four years. In 1994, the Fiji media industry established a vocational training centre, the Fiji Journalism Institute (FJI), with UNESCO and other donor funding assistance along with the Fiji government, which provided office space. Although this venture collapsed after six years under a cloud over financial accountability, both the Fiji Media Council and PINA moved to revive the centre through the Fiji Institute of Technology. The Samoa Polytechnic (now the Samoa Institute of Technology) also established a vocational journalism school in 2002. Fiji has been the only Pacific country where the media industry has established a vocational programme competing with an established journalism school at a university—the region’s largest. This has prompted concerns about duplication and wastage of resources. AusAID, through its Pacific Media and Communications Facility and its associated Media in Development Initiative programme in Papua New Guinea, has gained ascendancy in the region as a media aid donor—and in most other fields, too. It has sought to achieve greater coordination in the region’s media training and aid cooperation between agencies. This also led to the merger of PINA and PIBA in 2004 for the benefit of the region. However, this trend has also led to growing concern in media and academic circles over a loss of independence and sovereignty over media training and educational policies—is aid a panacea or Pandora’s box for media training and education sustainability? It is critical for governance that future media training aid should have more transparency with funds being spread more evenly across several agencies so that no single industry group effectively holds too much power over journalism training policy. And the media should become proactive over reportage and debate over media aid issues and challenge conflicts of interest. Non-government organisations such as AusAID and the UN organisations need to tackle aid policy more robustly to push for a new funding paradigm in support of the Fourth Estate in the region in the digital age." (Conclusion) more

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Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

James E. Katz (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.

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Community Radio Broadcasting Codes of Practice

Community Board;Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) (2008), 32 pp.

"Community broadcasters are united by six guiding principles. We will work to: 1. Promote harmony and diversity and contribute to an inclusive, cohesive and culturally-diverse Australian community 2. Pursue the principles of democracy, access and equity, especially for people and issues not adequate ... more

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South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues
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Evangelia Papoutsaki, Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), xi, 288 pp.

"This book brings together significant scholarly contributions on communication issues by researchers working across the region. It aims to create better understanding of what affects the communication and information flow in smaller nations and how these impact on national development, governance a ... more

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Enhancing Pacific Connectivity: The Current Situation, Opportunities for Progress

Bangkok: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP);UNDP;UN-OHRLLS (2008), xii, 81 pp.

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Oral history and public memories

Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes (eds.)

Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2008), xvii, 302 pp.

"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2008: Draft Country Reports

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Sarah G. Cook (eds.)

New York; Washington, DC: Freedom House (2008), 239 pp.

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Pan-Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme Final Report: Radio Pasifik-Nauru

Linda Austin

Pan-Asia ICT (2008), 93 pp.

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The Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World

Jesper Strömbäck, Lynda Lee Kaid (eds.)

New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2008), xix, 450 pp.

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Media and Development in Asia: Regional Perspectives

Indrajit Banerjee, Madanmohan Rao (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 348 pp.

"This book brings together some of the most outstanding and novel papers on media and development presented at the AMIC Annual Conferences in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2004. It features over a dozen contributions from around the region, providing a wealth of fresh case studies as well as breaking ne ... more

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World Press Trends 2008

Paris: World Association of Newspapers (WAN) (2008), 966 pp.

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Politics and Book Publishing in the Pacific Islands

Linda S. Crowl

Wollongong: University of Wollongong, Doctoral Thesis (2008), xii, 407 pp.

"This dissertation discusses interactions between politics and book publishing by missions and colonial governments in areas of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia over approximately 200 years [...] From its inception, book publishing in the Pacific Islands has been a significant instrument of ideo ... more

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Church Communications Through Diocesan Websites: A Model of Analysis

Daniel Arasa

Rome: EDUSC (2008), 455 pp.

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Women in Action No.2/2008: People's Communications for Development (PC4D)

Tesa Casal de Vela, Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo (eds.)

Quezon City: Isis International (2008), 94 pp.

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Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy

Nancy Snow, Philip M. Taylor (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2008), xx, 382 pp.

"The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. Editors Nancy ... more

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Community Media: International Perspectives
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Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp.

"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem ... more

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World Press Trends 2007

Paris: World Association of Newspapers (WAN) (2007), 781 pp.

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World Information Society Report 2007: Beyond WSIS

Philippa Biggs, Tim Kelly, Sang-Hun Lee, Youlia Lozanova, Tomoo Nemoto, Christine Sund, Mongi Hamdi, Michael Minges

Geneva: ITU (2007), 207 pp.

"The second edition of the World Information Society Report, published by ITU and UNCTAD, looks beyond the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005) to the creation of an inclusive, people-centred and development-oriented Information Society, open to all. The report tr ... more

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ICT in Teacher Education: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region

Ellie Meleisea (ed.)

Bangkok: UNESCO (2007), 130 pp.

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Nationwide Media Audience Survey

Anglo Pacific Research and Strategy Ltd.

Port Moresby: Media Council of Papua New Guinea, Media for Development Initiative (2007), 160 pp.

"This Nationwide Media Audience Survey 2006 is the most comprehensive and representative media survey carried out in Papua New Guinea to date. Regular media surveys for commercial purposes have been carried out, concentrating on urban and peri-urban samples in the five most-developed major centres. ... more

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