Mark Pearson on Pacific media freedom (PMC)
Channel: Pacific Media Centre (AUT)
Date: 2013-04-26

AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch 8272): Pacific news media organisations need to pay their journalists more to do their job and to keep them in a well-functioning democracy, says journalism Professor Mark Pearson. In an interview with the Pacific Media Centre's Pacific Media Watch project editor Daniel Drageset, he says many journalists in the Pacific prefer to take on a full-time government job, instead of a lesser paid, more insecure job in the media. He is the 2013 UNESCO World Press Freedom speaker in New Zealand on May 3. Story link: http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/region-pacific-journalists-need-better-pay-says-free-media-advocate-8272