EMERGING INVESTIGATIVE
JOURNALISM 'CULTURE' FEATURED IN LATEST PJR
AUCKLAND (Pacific Journalism
Review / Pacific Media Watch): Universities are part of an emerging
investigative journalism culture that is pushing boundaries on models of
collaboration and international inquiries, say the editors of the latest edition
of Pacific Journalism Review.
“In a time of such intense change
and experimentation, journalists and the public should be able to expect that
universities will play a role in testing new models and putting new ideas into
practice,” say co-editors Professor Wendy Bacon and Associate Professor Tom
Morton, both leading investigative journalists.
In the editorial, the co-editors
declare their goal to “promote a more independent and critical culture of
journalism in our region, without which democracy cannot flourish”.
They added: “This goal suggests a
relationship [between journalists and universities] much wider and more
challenging than simply the production of qualified journalists.”
The edition, themed “Back to the
source” and published today, features many investigative articles and
presentations from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific at the conference of
that name hosted by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) in
Sydney last September.
This was the second in a series
of investigative journalism conferences, following one at Auckland University of
Technology in December 2010. The next is due at Monash University in Melbourne
next year.
Pacific Journalism Review also
features two university-based investigations into major mining operations in New
Caledonia and West Papua in a new regular section entitled “From the
Frontline”.
Multiplatform
approach
Among commentaries published are the keynote address by Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Centre for Investigative Reporting at Berkeley, California, who talks about a multiplatform approach to investigative journalism in the midst of “one of the greatest transformations in information and technology in human history”.
Among commentaries published are the keynote address by Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Centre for Investigative Reporting at Berkeley, California, who talks about a multiplatform approach to investigative journalism in the midst of “one of the greatest transformations in information and technology in human history”.
Investigative journalists Richard
Baker and Nick McKenzie debate their “Dirty Money” investigation into Securency
while Linton Besser and Dylan Welch examine their “Crime Does Pay” inquiry into
the NSW Crime Commission.
Tom Morton investigates the case
of Sharleen Spiteri, an HIV+ sex worker who caused a national scandal when she
appeared on television in Australia and revealed she sometimes had unprotected
sex with her clients.
Kayt Davies examines the
strategies of the independent agency West Papua Media and the challenge of
protecting sources in dangerous places, Shailendra Singh probes investigative
journalism in seven Pacific countries and David Robie assesses controversial
Pacific investigations involving New Zealand media regulators.
In the “From the Frontline”
section of PJR, Karen Abplanalp’s 2011 Metro magazine investigation into
the NZ Superannuation Fund’s “ethical” investments in the giant US-owned
Freeport mine in West Papua and Nicole Gooch’s Global Mail 2012
investigation into the Vale nickel refinery at Goro, New Caledonia, are
featured.
“This is an innovative initiative
for a research journal combining journalism and reflexive academic analysis,”
said the journal’s managing editor Professor David Robie.
Other articles include a
commentary by Professor Mark Pearson assessing the methodology of the Reporters
Sans Frontières media freedom index rankings applied to Australia, NZ and the
Pacific; an assessment of the New Zealand journalism school accreditation model
by Grant Hannis; and “anti-Māori themes” in New Zealand journalism researched by
the Whariki Research Centre at Massey University with suggestions “toward
alternative practice”.
Contents and abstracts for the
latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review are online at: www.pjreview.info
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