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Malcolm Ross and the Samoan ‘troubles’ of 1899
Publication date: October, 2008New Zealand journalist Malcolm Ross was a witness to the international rivalries over Samoa between Germany, Britain and the United States, which came to a head in 1899....
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‘Drugs, guns and gangs’: Case studies on Pacific states and how they deploy...
Publication date: May, 2012Media freedom and the capacity for investigative journalism have been steadily eroded in the South Pacific in the past five years in the wake of an entrenched coup and...
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Review: The brutally honest Orator
Review of the feature film directed by Tusi TamasesePublication date: May, 2012‘You know why women don’t want to be Orators, because they don’t want to show their breasts in public.’ This is how Samoan...
View ArticleObserver Under Threat
The publisher of the Samoa Observer has been battling a long, courageous and expensive campaign to defend his newspaper. And the latest Government attacks on the Observer are a chilling bid to curb...
View ArticleCivil society and media: The relevance in Fiji, Tonga and PNG
PNG's Melanesian societies with Polyneasian societies like Tonga and Samoa, which evolved the familiar authoritarian feudal structures, which are always in tension with democratic institutions. In...
View ArticleMalcolm Ross and the Samoan ‘troubles’ of 1899
New Zealand journalist Malcolm Ross was a witness to the international rivalries over Samoa between Germany, Britain and the United States, which came to a head in 1899. Civil war had broken out after...
View Article‘Drugs, guns and gangs’: Case studies on Pacific states and how they deploy...
Media freedom and the capacity for investigative journalism have been steadily eroded in the South Pacific in the past five years in the wake of an entrenched coup and censorship in Fiji. The muzzling...
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The brutally honest Orator
‘You know why women don’t want to be Orators, because they don’t want to show their breasts in public.’ This is how Samoan High Chief Tagaloa spoke, squinting through his leathery brown skin framed by...
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Malcolm Ross, journalist and photographer. The perfect war correspondent?
Abstract: Malcolm Ross was New Zealand’s first official war correspondent and from 1915 until the end of the First World War he provided copy to the New Zealand press. His journalism has been the...
View ArticleSocial stigmatisation, cultural coercion, and peer-pressure faced by Pacific...
This set of three case studies, with elements of problem-based learning, examines how the University of the South Pacific (USP) journalism students deal with social pressure applied by their peers, and...
View ArticleTRANSCRIPT: Pacific journalism education and training - the new advocacy era
Transcript: For years, journalism education training in the Pacific has relied on donor funded short courses and expatriate media educators but in recent times this has been changing with the growth of...
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