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Navigating challenges and shaping futures - Call for submissions
NAVIGATING CHALLENGES AND SHAPING FUTURES: Call for submissions
Pacific Media is calling for papers and panel presentations for a special edition to be published in late 2024 drawing on the submissions at the recent Pacific International Media Conference with the theme “Navigating Challenges and Shaping Futures in Pacific Media Research and Practice” in Suva, Fiji, on 4-6 July.
Pacific Media is calling for papers and panel presentations for a special edition to be published in late 2024 drawing on the submissions at the recent Pacific International Media Conference with the theme “Navigating Challenges and Shaping Futures in Pacific Media Research and Practice” in Suva, Fiji, on 4-6 July.
We are seeking submissions covering journalism, media and communication issues in the Asia Pacific region in the fields as accepted by The University of the South Pacific (USP) and presented at the conference.
Edition editors: A/Professor Shailendra Singh, Dr Amit Sarwal and Dr Philip Cass
Editorial manager: Dr David Robie
The edition is being coordinated, blind peer reviewed, and published by Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) in partnership with USP and the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA).
The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2024.
The publication may include several keynote speeches and may include these main themes:
- Pacific media geopolitics and regional reporting;
- Navigating media law, ethics and practice in Pacific democracies;
- Navigating the post-Fiji Media Industry Development Act landscape;
- Pacific editors’ forum: the state of the Pacific media and future directions;
- International Fund for Public Interest Media;
- Enriching news reporting on complex topics in the Pacific through science;
- Publish or perish: Challenges of journalism journals for the Global South/Asia Pacific;
- Covering climate through a solutions journalism lens;
- Gender and media in the Pacific: examining violence that women face with media;
- Assessing Pacific media landscape from columnists to coverage;
- Why Pacific media need to look more towards Asia;
- COVID-19, pandemic and mental health in journalism; and
- Media sustainability, indigenous and vernacular media.
The APA-based style guide is at: https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-monographs/pmm/styleguide
Please register as a user and upload submissions on the OJS open access portal for Pacific Media at the Tuwhera indigenous research portal at Auckland University of Technology: https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-monographs/
A conference resource of articles about the presentations drawn from several media sources is at: https://asiapacificreport.nz/category/pacific-media-conference-2024/
Publication updates on the Pacific Media Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PacificJournalismReview
Editorial inquiries to: A/Professor Shailendra Singh: shailendra.singh@usp.ac.fj
Monika Singh: monika.singh@usp.ac.fj
Pacific Media email: pjreview@aut.ac.nz
The Editors, 1 August 2024