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An Independent Student Press: Three Case Studies For Fiji, Papua New Guinea And Aotearoa/New Zealand, D. Robie
An Independent Student Press: Three Case Studies For Fiji, Papua New Guinea And Aotearoa/New Zealand, D. Robie
Asia Pacific Media Educator
In spite of a relatively small but vibrant news media base, two South Pacific countries have been regional leaders in convergent publishing with both newspapers and online media as educational outcomes for student journalists. Universities in Fiji and Papua New Guinea have pioneered with various versions of an entrepreneurial and socially activist student press for three decades, including titles such as Uni Tavur (founded in 1975), Wansolwara (1996) and Liklik Diwai (1998). All three papers have strongly identified with a national development role. In 2003, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s AUT University began publishing Te Waha Nui as a regular professional course publishing …
"Cue Journalism": Media Should Stop Playing Follow-The-Leader, M. K. Anuar
"Cue Journalism": Media Should Stop Playing Follow-The-Leader, M. K. Anuar
Asia Pacific Media Educator
The mainstream media in Malaysia, as in most countries, are expected to break news to the public while an important event unfolds, or at the latest, shortly after it occurs. They are also supposed to be in the forefront, probing and pushing vital issues to centre-stage. That’s why under normal circumstances we would expect the media to analyse, for example, the implications of new legislation or amendments to existing laws or the impact of a technological or medical breakthrough. The media are also expected to provide a platform for intelligent debate among interested parties on a controversy or policy matters …
Managing News In A Managed Media: Mediating The Message In Malaysiakini.Com, A. Pang
Managing News In A Managed Media: Mediating The Message In Malaysiakini.Com, A. Pang
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Widely regarded as an anomaly in the neo-authoritarian system in Malaysia, Malaysiakini.com is proving that managing an independent media in a government-managed media landscape is more than a Sisyphean struggle. Employing participant observation and interviews, supplemented by artifacts and media accounts, this study seeks to understand the media management of Malaysiakini.com through news management, using Shoemaker and Reese’s (1996) hierarchy of influence model, which posits a framework of internal and external forces that affect news management. The study found determined attempts to minimize ideological influences through media socialization by accentuating on the direct influences, such as the journalists’ role in …
Editor's Note: Contextualising The Teaching Of Journalism, Eric Loo
Editor's Note: Contextualising The Teaching Of Journalism, Eric Loo
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Three years ago in Toronto at the AEJMC pre-convention workshop I met with a group of journalism educators. We explored how we could better contextualise the delivery of journalism programmes to stay in tune with an internet-wired world. One of the imperatives we noted was to expose journalism students to learning opportunities where they could look at issues and affairs beyond the boundaries of their immediate community; and to develop in students the journalistic aptitude for interpreting and contextualising issues from a cross-cultural, ‘global’ perspective.
Beyond The 5ws + H: What Social Science Can Bring To J-Education, K.C. Boey
Beyond The 5ws + H: What Social Science Can Bring To J-Education, K.C. Boey
Asia Pacific Media Educator
THE pen is mightier than the sword. This axiom of journalism is at no time more apposite than in this terror-ridden post-9/11 world. Increasingly, nation-states and activist bloggers are realising that the power of the media and those who control it set the agenda for world politics and governance. Yet journalism educators reflexively trust this maxim among their charges to received wisdom. Or pedantically go on presuming this aphorism to be ingrained in them by the time they finish high school media studies. In this, educators sell short students – and fall short of their larger responsibility to our broken …
Blogging As Pedagogic Practice: Artefact And Ecology, Marcus O'Donnell
Blogging As Pedagogic Practice: Artefact And Ecology, Marcus O'Donnell
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Much of the published discussion and research on blogs and teaching and learning in higher education focuses on evaluation of blogging as a communicative technique. This type of discussion largely assumes that successful integration of blogging into course delivery should be judged against a pre-existing and unchallenged pedagogical model. This paper argues that to leverage its full educational potential blogging must be understood not just as an isolated phenomena, but as part of a broad palette of cybercultural practices which provide us with new ways of doing and thinking. The paper looks at the ways broader theoretical models associated with …
The Status And Relevance Of Vietnamese Journalism Education: An Empirical Analysis, A. Nguyen
The Status And Relevance Of Vietnamese Journalism Education: An Empirical Analysis, A. Nguyen
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Based primarily on data from indepth interviews with senior journalists and journalism educators as well as a content analysis of journalism curricula, this paper sets out to provide an overview of the demand, overall provision structure, teaching materials and methods of Vietnamese journalism education. It first shows that with a fast expansion in both size and substance, the Vietnamese media system is beginning to feel the urgent need for formal journalism education. However, the country’s major journalism programs have been criticised for producing hundreds of unqualified journalism graduates a year. In general, the most deplorable aspects of Vietnamese journalism education …
Intersections Of Community And Journalism In Australia And Singapore, K. Bowd
Intersections Of Community And Journalism In Australia And Singapore, K. Bowd
Asia Pacific Media Educator
The notion of “community” is a contested one, but one which is widely used across a range of fields and applications. For example, understandings of community in a country such as Singapore differ significantly from interpretations of community in a country such as Australia. In Singapore, notions of community are strongly influenced by language and cultural background, while in Australia, geography and distance are often key factors. Journalists’ relationships with the communities for whom and about whom they write are complicated by this imprecision and by the range of contexts and environments to which the term can be applied. However, …
Profile Interview: Keeping Emotions Intact In War Reporting: Shahanaaz Habib, Eric Loo
Profile Interview: Keeping Emotions Intact In War Reporting: Shahanaaz Habib, Eric Loo
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Interview with Shahanaaz Habib. News Editor, The Star, Malaysia. Author of Between Blood & Bombs, Times Publishing, Malaysia 2005.