Coup editorial content: Analysis of the Fiji 2000 political crisis
Both the Fiji Times and the Daily Post reinforced the colonial myth that Fijian chiefs are the rightful rulers of Fiji, emphasising that Fiji, and this presumably means Fijians, was not ready for a...
View Article'The Innocence in Her Beautiful Green Eyes': Speculations on Seduction and...
It is a familiar refrain to describe journalism as, simply, story-telling (Manoff, 1986). The aim of this article, however, is to explore how that simple project turns complicated in a place like...
View ArticleWest Papua ‘independence’ and the Papua New Guinea press
This article explores the West Papua issue through the Papua New Guinea news media. It seeks to identify the reasons behind the decline in coverage of West Papua in the PNG press. It provides an...
View ArticleNew Zealand print freelancers: Who they are, what they earn, where and what...
This article provides a statistical picture of print freelancers, the largest freelance sector in New Zealand. Compared with journalists employed in the print industry, freelancers had generally the...
View ArticleWhat is happening to investigative journalism? A pilot study of ABC’s Four...
The purpose of investigative journalism is to hold powerful interests to account and highlight systemic corruption and breakdown. Ettema and Glasser, and de Burgh, define the investigative journalist’s...
View ArticleReporting controversy in health policy: A content and field analysis
This article reports on the research and analysis of editorial attitudes and news reporting in two prominent Sydney newspapers—The Daily Telegraph (DT) and The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)—about the...
View ArticleReporting HIV in Papua New Guinea: Trends and omissions from 2000 to 2010
This article presents the findings from a longitudinal content analysis on the reporting of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in Papua New Guinea’s two national newspapers—The National and...
View Article‘We look after our own’: The cultural dynamics of celebrity in a small country
Unlike the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, where celebrities are often subjected to derision in the tabloid media, the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, the country’s longest-running women’s...
View ArticleNewspaper quality, content and competition in New Zealand
Content analysis results show that investment strategies and newspaper quality vary between companies in New Zealand. Indeed, Allied Press’ Otago Daily Times prints considerably more news than Fairfax...
View ArticleContent and source analysis of newspaper items about Māori issues: Silencing...
This article reports on a content analysis of newspaper items from Aotearoa/New Zealand about Māori issues, focusing on level of coverage, topics and sources. Results from analysis of a representative...
View ArticleCovering cops: Critical reporting of Indonesian police corruption
The following article analyses contemporary newspaper representations of police corruption in Indonesia’s premier English-language newspaper, The Jakarta Post. The article draws on primary data...
View ArticleNewspaper coverage of climate change in Fiji: A content analysis
Media plays a crucial role in the global fight against climate change, acting as a tool for awareness, advocacy and policy change. For Fiji, this role becomes even more essential with the country’s...
View ArticleThe challenges of anonymous source stories: A case study of Solomon Islands...
This article examines the use of anonymous sources in Solomon Star and Island Sun daily newspapers in Solomon Islands. It is aimed to explore why the two newspapers use anonymous sources in the news...
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