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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