From campus to newsroom in the South Pacific: credible media career paths versus "academic anaemia"

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aut.relation.endpage98
aut.relation.issue15
aut.relation.startpage81
aut.researcherRobie, David Telfer
dc.contributor.authorRobie, D
dc.contributor.authorSingh, S
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-17T04:43:45Z
dc.date.available2012-07-17T04:43:45Z
dc.date.copyright2005
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThe University of the South Pacific’s Regional Journalism Programme, which caters for 12 member countries1 from the Cook Islands in the east to the Solomon Islands in the west, was founded in 1994 with French Government aid. It began producing double major graduate journalists for the South Pacific from 1996. Two-thirds of the graduates live and work in Fiji. While some news media organisations in Fiji have generally recruited graduates, others have preferred to hire untrained school leavers. Parallel with draft legislation designed to turn the self-regulating Fiji Media Council into a statutory body, there have been public calls for higher media standards and more professional training and education. This article explores the career attitudes and destination of the university’s 68 journalism graduates between 1996 and 2002 based on empirical data from a five-year monitoring project that started in 1998. It also examines the policies of the Fiji media industry towards graduates and education.
dc.identifier.citationAsia Pacific Media Educator(15), pp.81 - 98
dc.identifier.issn1326-365X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/4544
dc.publisherUniversity of Wollongong
dc.relation.isreplacedby10292/6746
dc.relation.isreplacedbyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/6746
dc.relation.urihttp://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss15/7/
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dc.subjectjournalism education
dc.subjectGraduates
dc.subjectFiji
dc.subjectMass media
dc.subjectRecruitment
dc.subjectVocational education
dc.subjectTertiary education
dc.subjectStandards
dc.titleFrom campus to newsroom in the South Pacific: credible media career paths versus "academic anaemia"
dc.typeJournal Article
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