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PUBLISHING: Pacific Journalism Review: Twenty years on the front line of regional identity and freedom

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Title: PUBLISHING: Pacific Journalism Review: Twenty years on the front line of regional identity and freedom
Authors: Lee Duffield
Source: Pacific Journalism Review, Vol 21, Iss 1 (2015)
Subject Terms: academic freedom, academic publishing, environment, environmental journalism, journalism education, Pacific Journalism Review, Communication. Mass media, P87-96, Journalism. The periodical press, etc., PN4699-5650
Publisher Information: Asia Pacific Network, 2015.
Publication Year: 2015
Collection: LCC:Communication. Mass media
LCC:Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
Description: Pacific Journalism Review has consistently, at a good standard, honoured its 1994 founding goal: to be a credible peer-reviewed journal in the Asia-Pacific region, probing developments in journalism and media, and supporting journalism education. Global, it considers new media and social movements; ‘regional’, it promotes vernacular media, human freedoms and sustainable development. Asking how it developed, the method for this article was to research the archive, noting authors, subject matter, themes. The article concludes that one answer is the journal’s collegiate approach; hundreds of academics, journalists and others, have been invited to contribute. Second has been the dedication of its one principal editor, Professor David Robie, always somehow providing resources—at Port Moresby, Suva, and now Auckland—with a consistent editorial stance. Eclectic, not partisan, it has nevertheless been vigilant over rights, such as monitoring the Fiji coups d’etat. Watching through a media lens, it follows a ‘Pacific way’, handling hard information through understanding and consensus. It has 237 subscriptions indexed to seven databases. Open source, it receives more than 1000 site visits weekly. With ‘clientele’ mostly in Australia, New Zealand and ‘Oceania’, it extends much further afield. From 1994 to 2014, 701 articles and reviews were published, now more than 24 scholarly articles each year.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1023-9499
2324-2035
Relation: https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/145; https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499; https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v21i1.145
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/b0564f7988d341b495c25f03fa337f3b
Accession Number: edsdoj.b0564f7988d341b495c25f03fa337f3b
ISSN: 1023949923242035
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v21i1.145
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals