Media

October 2012

Cover of October 2012 edition of Islands Business magazine

The Fourth Estate stoush

The media's role is said to be to hold a mirror to the government and to society without fear or favour. But Pacific media practitioners and academics are doing a disservice to their professions and to media consumers at large as they continue blackening one other's faces putting their narrow ...

July 2012

Cover of July 2012 edition of Islands Business magazine

End of news media as we know it?

One of the pithier definitions of news is,‘something that someone somewhere doesn’t want you to know’. More often than not, that someone is in a position of power—either in government or in business— and what they don’t want you to know is some shady thing that has been done at ...

May 2012

Cover of May 2012 edition of Islands Business magazine

United front by regional media?

The Pacific Islands News Association’s call to the region’s fractious media organisations to work together and move forward at its Fiji convention in late March must be welcomed.