Bearing Witness 2016: A Fiji Climate Change Journalism Case Study

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aut.relation.endpage205
aut.relation.issue1en_NZ
aut.relation.journalPacific Journalism Reviewen_NZ
aut.relation.pages19
aut.relation.startpage186
aut.relation.volume23en_NZ
aut.researcherRobie, David
dc.contributor.authorRobie, Den_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-03T23:52:37Z
dc.date.available2019-10-03T23:52:37Z
dc.date.copyright2017-07-21en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017-07-21en_NZ
dc.description.abstractIn February 2016, the Fiji Islands were devastated by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, the strongest recorded tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere. The category 5 storm with wind gusts reaching 300 kilometres an hour, left 44 people dead, 45,000 people displaced, 350,000 indirectly affected, and $650 million worth of damage (Climate Council, 2016). In March 2017, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) launched a new 10-year Strategic Plan 2017-2026, which regards climate change as a ‘deeply troubling issue for the environmental, economic, and social viability of Pacific island countries and territories’. In November, Fiji will co-host the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) climate change conference in Bonn, Germany. Against this background, the Pacific Media Centre despatched two neophyte journalists to Fiji for a two-week field trip in April 2016 on a ‘bearing witness’ journalism experiential assignment to work in collaboration with the Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD) and the Regional Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific. This paper is a case study assessing this climate change journalism project and arguing for the initiative to be funded for a multiple-year period in future and to cover additional Pacific countries, especially those so-called ‘frontline’ climate change states.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationPacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 23(1), 186-205. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i1.257
dc.identifier.doi10.24135/pjr.v23i1.257en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1023-9499en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn2324-2035en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12881
dc.languageEnglishen_NZ
dc.publisherPacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technologyen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/257en_NZ
dc.rightsThis journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectBearing witness; Climate change; COP23; Environmental journalism; Fiji; Pacific Islands; Pacific Regional Environment Programme; SPREP
dc.titleBearing Witness 2016: A Fiji Climate Change Journalism Case Studyen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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