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By TEVITA VUIBAU Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch Drawing a fine line between reporting facts and sensationalising stories of suicide can lower suicide rates. And it is this responsible reporting that is being advocated by the National Committee on the Prevention of Suicide (NCOPS) mental health project officer Michael Smith. In a presentation to journalists at [...]

By PARIJATA GURDAYAL Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch Parijata Gurdayal is a reporter on Wansolwara, the student journalism newspaper published by the University of the South Pacific. The media needs to increase its commitment to reporting on climate change issues in order to safeguard those affected, says human rights lawyer Seema Naidu. Speaking at the Pacific [...]

Source: PACIFIC SCOOP/PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH University journalism schools and communication studies programmes have a duty to provide independent news media, says a leading Pacific journalist and educator. Professor David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre at New Zealand’s AUT University, said journalism schools should foster their own news publications that interacted with social media [...]

By SARAH VAMARASI Wansolwara/Pacific Media Centre Sarah Vamarasi is a reporter on Wansolwara, the student journalism newspaper published by the University of the South Pacific. Pacific perspectives and values must be inculcated in the region’s journalists if there is to be a truly independent media culture, says a prominent broadcaster and publisher in Fiji, who [...]

By DAVID ROBIE This was the first PINA convention that David Robie, a critic of PINA in the 1980s-90s, was actually invited to and give a presentation. He was on the host organising committee in 1999 (Suva) and 1995 (Port Moresby). He is also the director of the Pacific Media Centre and was at the [...]

Source: INDIAN CULTURAL CENTRE Staff of the Indian Cultural Centre, High Commission of India made a special visit to Nasamila District School in Kiuva, Bau, Tailevu, early this month. Students from the school come from the villages of Muanaira, Nasilai, Vadrai and Kiuva. Kiuva is the home of Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama. The Centre [...]

By FONUA TALEI Residents of Dadakulaci Lane in Nadawa, Nasinu now have access to a newly built walkway aimed to improve crossing in the area. The project is a joint initiative by the Nasinu Town Council and the Housing Authority of Fiji. Resident, Abhay Chand said they were thankful to the Nasinu Town Council and [...]

By RINU SHYYAM The Nausori Town Council has made new appointments after the recent approval of the Naulu/ Nakasi town planning scheme. The appointments are to strengthen the management in the areas of enforcing law, integration with government agencies, improving business licensing, and ratable properties supervision to support the proposed town-planning scheme. Newly appointed manager, [...]