scholarly journals Good news media book in regional bad news year

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Author(s):  
Patrick Craddock
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
News Media ◽  
National Development ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
The Media

Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea is one of the most interesting books I have on Pacific media. It is a collection of different writers, some of whom are current or former journalists. Several of the authors have direct media links as staff working with the Divine Word University in Madang, a private Christian institution. For the uninitiated, the opening chapter gives an outline of the media landscape in PNG. Other chapters explore media ownership, journalism education and the role of media national development. 

scholarly journals Media and Presidential Nomination Campaigns: When Bad News Becomes Good News (or at least a little better)

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 343-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Haynes
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Presidential Nomination ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Manipulation

This paper examines the research in media and presidential nomination campaigns as it has emerged during the post-reform era and moved into the new millennia. While there has been ample progress in the field, most notable has been the change in tone in the research from “bad” news to “good” news. Interpretations from the most recent research in the area suggest that the news media do not perform as poorly as judged in the earlier decades, at least in terms of providing information to voters. Moreover, voters are now portrayed not as naïve citizens who are easily manipulated by the media, but rather more resilient to media manipulation, and active consumers of information for political learning purposes.

scholarly journals The digital divide in Papua New Guinea: Implications for journalism education

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Sagrista ◽  
Patrick Matbob
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Information Age ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Papua New Guinean

Access to new technology and the development of the necessary skills to master them are crucial aspects when developing countries aim to play a more important role in the current information age and knowledge-based society. New technology and the internet have the potential to enhance access to information for people and to help countries such as Papua New Guinea become active producers of knowledge, shifting away from the traditional role of passive consumption. However, new technology also has the potential to increase already existing inequalities. In this regard, exploring the concrete shortcuts brought by the digital divide in PNG and trying to address them for journalism education is an imperative, so that journalists in the country can bridge this gap, raise their own voices and best contribute to the development of Papua New Guinean society.

scholarly journals PNG's new information order (in waiting)

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Oria Gemo
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Information Order ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The first of three papers presented at the one-day PNG Council of Churches seminar on the Role of the Media in Papua New Guinea at the University of PNG, 19 August 1994.

scholarly journals Community, Demagogues and the South Pacific News Media

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
News Media ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
General View ◽  
The South ◽  
Constitutional Review ◽  
The Press ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Media

On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee on Media Accountability: to examine ‘whether changes need to be made to ensure that, while freedom of the press is maintained, owners, editors and journalists of all elements of the media are accountable and that persons aggrieved by media abuses have reasonable redress’. The CRC held a public seminar in January 1996 to explore the issues and the Media Council of Papua blew Guinea held a ‘freedom at the crossroads’ seminar the following month. Public responses were overwhelmingly in favour of the traditional ‘free’ press in Papua New Guinea, as guaranteed under Section 46 of the Constitution. The report of the Subcommittee on Media Accountability to Parliament in June 1996 essentially came to the same conclusion. However, the CRC introduced three draft media laws in November which introduced a controversial system involving a Media Commission, registration of journalists, licensing of media organisations and serious penalties for transgressors. The proposed legislation was widely condemned and was eventually shelved in February 1997, A general view is that the media debate was manipulated by a small group of politicians out of self-interest. This paper examines the developments in the context of the erosion of the news media and free expression in the South Pacific generally.

scholarly journals Media ownership in Oceania: Three case studies in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tonga

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Shailendra Singh
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Media

The news media in Oceania are small but remarkably diverse and vigorous. Ownership ranges from large transnational corporations and robust local media companies, as in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, to local entrepreneurial and Government media interests, such as in Tonga and smaller South Pacific nations. News Corporation, through its South Pacific subsidaries, owns the two largest English-language dailies, The Fiji Times and the PNG Post-Courier, while the Malaysian timber company Rimbunan Hijau is a major media investor in Papua New Guinea (The National) as well as having interests in New Zealand and South-East Asia. Australia's Channel nine owns PNG's national TV broadcaster, EMTV, and New Zealand has played an important role in the development of Fiji Television. All three countries have had constitutional freedom of expression guarantees under assault in recent years and the role of the media in good governance has been an emerging theme. Three authors, prominent journalists (and, in the case of two, now also media edcators), analyse the trends in their countries. 

scholarly journals EDITORIAL: A timely alternative vision

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Barry King
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
New Location

As many readers will know, Pacific Journalism Review was published for nine years in the Pacific – initially at the University of Papua New Guinea from November 1994, and then most recently at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. This issue marks the relocation of the journal from Suva to the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology. The issue following this one, with the theme of ‘Media ownership and democracy’, will mark a decade of publication. Throughout this time the journal has been at the forefront of critical reflections on the role of the media and journalism practices in the Pacific region; a role it will continue to serve in its new location.

scholarly journals Pacific journalism education and training - the new advocacy era

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Mackenzie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
News Media ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
The South ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
National University ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

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 more journalism schools at both universities and technical institutes and a more home grown actively qualified staff and proliferating research programmes. These changes can be reflected with the establishment of the new advocacy group, Media Educators Pacific (MEP). This is chaired by Misa Vicky Lepou, the president and she is also the head of journalism at the National University of Samoa. This body has a mission to promote and deliver the highest professional standards of training, education and research in media and journalism education relevant to the Pacific and beyond. In a region where the news media and journalism education have been forced to confront major hurdles such as military coups, as in Fiji; ethnic conflict, as in the Solomon Islands; and two rival governments and the ruthless crushing of student protests in Papua New Guinea in June 2016, major questions are faced. Along with critical development issues such as climate change and resources degradation, what are the challenges ahead for teaching contemporary journalists? These were some of the issues explored by this panel at the Fourth World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) conference in Auckland in July 2016. The panel was chaired by the Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie. Speakers were Emily Matasororo of the University of Papua New Guinea, Shailendra Singh of the University of the South Pacific, Misa Vicky Lepou of the National University of Samoa and Charlie David Mandavah of the Vanuatu Institute of Technology. Eliki Drugunalevu of the University of the South Pacific provided a summing up.

Agenda-Setting Dynamics during the Campaign Period

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Partheymüller
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Agenda Setter ◽  
Memory Decay ◽  
The Media

It is widely believed that the news media have a strong influence on defining what are the most important problems facing the country during election campaigns. Yet, recent research has pointed to several factors that may limit the mass media’s agenda-setting power. Linking news media content to rolling cross-section survey data, the chapter examines the role of three such limiting factors in the context of the 2009 and the 2013 German federal elections: (1) rapid memory decay on the part of voters, (2) advertising by the political parties, and (3) the fragmentation of the media landscape. The results show that the mass media may serve as a powerful agenda setter, but also demonstrate that the media’s influence is strictly limited by voters’ cognitive capacities and the structure of the campaign information environment.

Cryptococcal meningitis in Papua New Guinea: ecology and the role of eucalypts

1993 ◽  
Vol 158 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Laurenson ◽  
Sirus Naraql ◽  
Neville Howcroft ◽  
Ian Burrows ◽  
Simon Saulei
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Cryptococcal Meningitis ◽  
New Guinea
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