EDITORIAL: Pacific media advocacy

IN SAMOA during July 2015, a new Pacific journalism education and training advocacy era was born with the establishment of the Media Educators Pacific (MEP) after a talkfest had gone on for years about the need for such a body. A draft constitution had even been floated at a journalism education co...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Robie
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Asia Pacific Network 2017
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/131d4c82ce1c44c2bcb05d7e05f296eb
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:IN SAMOA during July 2015, a new Pacific journalism education and training advocacy era was born with the establishment of the Media Educators Pacific (MEP) after a talkfest had gone on for years about the need for such a body. A draft constitution had even been floated at a journalism education conference hosted at the University of the South Pacific in 2012. The initiative created unity of sorts between the Technical, Vocational and Educational Training (TVET) media institutes from Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and the regional University of the South Pacific journalism programme. Founding president Misa Vicky Lepou of the National University of Samoa pledged at the time to produce a vision with a difference: