'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...
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Still European and female, but older: Profiling the New Zealand journalist
This survey (n=514) updates and extends previous surveys of New Zealand journalists, by measuring attitudes to resourcing, news coverage, ethics and standards, changing technology, ownership and other...
View ArticleWomen’s media: Challenging the status quo
While there is a need to challenge mainstream media to improve their portrayal of women in contemporary Pacific society, there is also a need to counter factors affecting and inhibiting women’s...
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 ArticleA comparison of teenage views on journalism as a career in Australia and New...
Australian and New Zealand journalism programmes report a disproportionate number of female students and the industry in both countries is becoming increasingly feminised. Densem (2006) explored the...
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Tackling a persistent trail of gender obstacles
Press history in New Zealand is still in its infancy and unless more interest is taken in the subject it will never reach adulthood. Research in this fi eld has been fragmentary. There have been some...
View ArticleTribute to Solomon Island women
This book profiles the stories of 14 outstanding women, revealing their intimate moments, their struggles and the highs they have faced during their lives. Solomon Islands women make up around 49...
View ArticleWhere are the women candidates during elections? A Fiji media case study
This article examines the visibility of female election candidates, and females in general, in The Fiji Times and Fiji Sun during the 2006 general election. After analysing the data collected...
View ArticleOnline coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games on the ABC, BBC, CBC and TVNZ
The same pervasive strategies that relegate women’s sports coverage to secondary status in the traditional sports media are apparent in online coverage. Content analysis of the extent and nature of...
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Meticulous study of early colonial infanticide
Every once in a while an academic researcher will privately concede they would like to have written the book they have reviewed. Count me in that category. Nicola Goc’s examination of news narratives...
View ArticleRunning on the spot: NZ’s record in news media gender equity
This article reports New Zealand’s performance in the latest, 2010 round of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) covering 108 countries. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis the...
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INTERVIEW: Jo Chandler: Gender, human rights and power investigations in...
INTERVIEW: A series of stories on the complexity and contradictions of Papua New Guinea, Australia’s closest neighbour, has won the 2013 George Munster award for independent journalism. The award is...
View ArticleCourageous women in media: Marcos and censorship in the Philippines
When Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972, press freedom became the first casualty in the country that once boasted of being the ‘freest in Asia’. Printing presses,...
View Article‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia
In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both...
View ArticleSPECIAL REPORT: Causes for concern: The state of New Zealand journalism in 2015
This survey of NZ journalists completed in late 2015 shows the impact of the rapid move to a digital news environment. Journalists are more educated, but working longer hours and feeling more pressure,...
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