Conference to put lens on Asia-Pacific political journalism   21 Nov 2014

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Conference to put lens on political journalism in Asia-Pacific
21 November 2014

Renowned investigative journalists, film makers, academics and media freedom campaigners from across the Asia-Pacific region will come together at AUT University next week for a thought-provoking conference on political journalism.

The conference, hosted by AUT’s Pacific Media Centre on November 27-29, will also celebrate 20 years of publication of the research journal Pacific Journalism Review.

Pacific Media Centre director and conference co-ordinator Professor David Robie says the event will provide a stimulating and challenging platform of dialogue, as it confronts and explores many of the issues faced within political journalism today.

“This is the very first time that AUT is hosting a conference with such a stimulating interface between international journalists and film makers from the region, civil society advocates and media educators and researchers,” says Dr Robie.

“One of the most interesting presentations will be on asylum seekers in the Pacific and the contemporary pressures of the surveillance state on journalists.

“And, of course, it is a real milestone to have our media research journal, the Pacific Journalism Review celebrating two decades.”

The conference will bring to centre-stage an influential array of keynote speakers:


• Celebrated journalist and film maker Max Stahl from Timor-Leste - the man who exposed the 1991 Indonesian massacre at Santa Cruz cemetery to the world - will give the PJR birthday keynote address about what he describes as “anti-news”. He will also be screening scenes from an experimental film based on East Timor’s struggle for independence from Indonesia.
Ces Oreña-Drilon, award-winning Filipino television journalist who was once kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf rebels, will discuss developments in the trial of the Maguindanao massacre in the Southern Philippines in 2009 when 34 journalists were murdered by a local warlord’s militia. The killings constitute the world’s worst ever death toll of news people in a single attack. She is being brought to New Zealand by the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Repúblika editor-in-chief Ricardo Morris will address the topic of media freedom in Fiji under the military backed regime and since the September General Elections. Morris will be joined by lecturers, researchers and recent graduates of the University of the South Pacific talking about their struggle to protect media freedom.
Film makers screening films and discussing their investigative work include AUT’s Jim Marbrook (Cap Bocage), the University of Auckland’s Professor Annie Goldson (the Dotcom saga), and Alister Barry of Vanguard Films (Hot Air).

Other speakers and paper presenters include Nick Chesterfield of West Papua Media news agency who will discuss how journalists can work undercover in West Papua yet protect their sources; and researchers exploring the status quo on climate change, asylum seekers and the widely condemned “Pacific solution”; as well as discussions around Maori and cultural social media representations; and the emerging surveillance societies in Australia and New Zealand.

More information on the programme and speakers can be found here.
Top Filipino TV reporter investigations shed new light on ‘worst attack in history’ against journalists
www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/nz-top-filipino-tv-reporter-exposes-worst-attack-history-journalists-9057

Date: 27-29 November 2014
Venue: WG126, Sir Paul Reeves Building, Governor Fitzroy Place, AUT University, Auckland.

Storify updates on the conference: https://storify.com/pacmedcentre/upcoming-this-month-pjr-media-conference
Conference website: www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/articles/pjr-20th-anniversary-conference

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