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Volume 18, Issue 1

'Back to the source' investigative journalism
May, 2012

Bois Tabou outside the entrance to the Vale New Caledonia nickel refinery at Goro.
Photograph: © Nicole Gooch 2010

PJR 18(1) cover

Editors

David Robie, Tom Morton, Wendy Bacon

May, 2012

ISSN: 1023-9499

In this issue…

The May 2012 edition of Pacific Journalism Review features a selection of research, commentaries, articles and transcripts from the “Back to the Source” investigative journalism conference at the University of Technology, Sydney, last September. It also features a new section on “Journalism as research” with articles on investigations into two controversial mining sagas - West Papua’s Freeport mine at Grasberg and the Vale nickel refinery at Goro, New Caledonia. A review of Pacific media freedom reporting methodologies and an analysis of New Zealand's journalism school moderation system and accreditation are also included.

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Editorial

1. Editorial: Independent journalism
Tom Morton, Wendy Bacon

Theme

2. This wheel’s on fire: New models for investigative journalism
Tom Morton
3. A multi-platform approach to investigative journalism
Robert Rosenthal
4. Panel discussion—investigative case studies
Helen Vatsikopoulous
5. ‘Dirty little secret’: Journalism, privacy and the case of Sharleen Spiteri
Tom Morton
6. Safety vs credibility: West Papua Media and the challenge of protecting sources in dangerous places
Kayt Davies
7. Investigative journalism: Challenges, perils, rewards in seven Pacific Island countries
Shailendra Singh
8. ‘Drugs, guns and gangs’: Case studies on Pacific states and how they deploy NZ media regulators
David Robie

Frontline

9. Frontline: 'Blood Money': A NZ investigative journalism case study
Karen Abplanalp
10. Frontline: Background to 'Sulphate Sunrise' - investigating New Caledonia
Nicole Gooch

Articles

11. The value of accreditation of journalism programmes: A New Zealand perspective
Grant Hannis
12. Anti-Māori themes in New Zealand journalism—toward alternative practice
Raymond Nairn

Commentary

13. Behind the rankings of Pacific nations in the 2011-12 World Press Freedom Index
Mark Pearson

Reviews

14. Review: Arab eyes on disliked 'ugly Americans'
Alan Samson
15. Review: Delving into the complexity of NZ documentary
Catherine Davis
16. Review: Everybody's uncle
Allison Oosterman
17. Review: Hotchpotch, dry but worthwhile insights
Charles Riddle
18. Review: Bearing witness in 40 years of Greenpeace chronicles
David Robie
19. Review: 'Digger' media out-manoeuvred by military
Giles Dodson
20. Review: The brutally honest Orator
Cherelle Jackson
21. Noted: Democracy and the price of silence
Proactive on climate change * Press freedom tribute
David Robie, Thakur Ranjit Singh

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USP Call for Papers p. 254
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PJR call for Papers p. 252