In journalism, combining investigative reporting with autobiography at a substantial level of proficiency can be extremely difficult. Along with intelligence, tenacity and a highly developed ‘nose for news’, the ability to recognise your own relative unimportance in almost every situation being reported upon is critical. Unfortunately this collection of stories inverts what should be every journalist’s priorities. What might have been an informative account of events in the South Pacific over the last few decades instead becomes a disappointing, disjointed list of the experiences of one well-travelled storyteller.
Books reviewed in this edition:
The Media and Communication in Australia, edited by Stuart Cunningham. Reviewed by Lee Duffield.
Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution, edited by Richard Keeble, John Tulloch and Florian Zollman. Reviewed by Heather Devere.
Changing Stations: The story of Australian commercial radio, by Bridget Griffen-Foley. Reviewed by Michael Meadows.
After the Tsunami: Crisis communication in Finland and Sweden, edited by Ullamaija Kivikuru and Lars Nord. Reviewed by Michael Bromley.
Changing Media, Changing Societies, Media and and the Millennium Development Goals, edited by Indrajit Banerjee and Sundeep R. Muppidi. Reviewed by Usha Sundar Harris.
Spinning Intelligence: Why intelligence needs the media, why the media needs intelligence, edited by Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman. Reviewed by Selwyn Manning.
Noted: In Defence of Melanesian Customary Land [Edited by Tim Anderson and Gary Lee] * Being the First: Storis Blong Oloketa Mere Lo Solomon Aelan [Edited by Alice Aruhe'eta Pollard and Marilyn Waring] * War Isn't Hell, It's Entertainment [Edited by Rikke Schubart, Fabian Virchow, Debra White-Stanley and Tanja Thomas]
