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News about Pacific Media : Te Koakoa: Ngā Rangahau
The Pacific Media publication series offers journalists, journalism academics and community activists and researchers an outlet for quality research and analysis in a long-form article of up to 15,000-25,000 words, or a series of papers, and more opportunities for community collaborative publishing.
While associated with Pacific Journalism Review and modelled on an earlier title at the Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Journalism Monographs, the new publication series provides a broader platform for longer research than has generally been available in the journal.
Earlier editions of PJM have included a diverse range of journalism research from media freedom and human rights in the Asia-Pacific to Asia-Pacific research methodologies, climate change in Kiribati, vernacular Pasifika media research in New Zealand, and post-coup self-censorship in Fiji.
The name Te Koakoa for Pacific Media, a longer form research publication companion to Pacific Journalism Review in te reo Māori can be translated literally either as ‘the sooty shearwater/shorttailed shearwater’ or as ‘The Joy’. Te Koakoa : Ngā Rangahau means research (in the plural).
Many thanks to the late Professor John Moorfield of Auckland University of Technology for his advice on te reo with the Pacific Media Centre (Te Amokura) linkages to seabirds.
The first edition or Pacific Media will primarily be papers from the Pacific Media conference hosted by the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji, in July.
Co-editors of the initial edition are Dr Shailendra Singh, Dr Amit Sawal and Dr Philip Cass. Contact: Philip Cass
The following edition will primarily be papers from the Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) conference in Hoc Chi Minh City, Vietnam, earlier this month. Contact: Khairiah A. Rahman
More information about Pacific Media and guidelines are here and submissions should be uploaded to the PM website at: https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-monographs/pmm/