Associate Pacific Affairs
Minister Luamanuvao
Winnie Laban
speaking at PIMA 2006.
Photo: Alan Koon
Welcome to the 2006 PIMA Conference news website produced by AUT University student journalists.
Held at AUT, this year’s theme was "Pasifika Media: Our Future".
For more information on workshop topics, registration or to download a programme, visit the PIMA website at: www.pima.org.nz
Associate Minister for Pacific Islands Affairs, Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, opened this year’s conference: “The conference will try to address the key question of what Pacific Islanders as a community want from the media organisations which choose to represent PI views and concerns. Pacific media is at an interesting stage of its growth at the moment, with the surge in community radio across country, the consolidation of NiuFM, the development of new and exciting Pacific Islands television content and the proliferation of web-based news services, there’s a feeling in the industry that we have never had it so good in Aotearoa.”
Articles
Lali Media publisher Kalafi Moala
speaking at PIMA 2006.
Photo: Alan Koon
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- New Tongan king fuels democratic hopes, 29 September 2006
- Gosche calls on media to keep up with reality, 29 September 2006
- PIMA 2006 news pictures gallery
Pasifika media chiefs face options for the future, 25 September 2006- Pan-Pacific publisher Moala tells the secrets of success, 24 September 2006
- PNG media chiefs seek training link-up with PIMA, 22 September 2006
- Gosche calls for major shake-up of NZ media content, 21 September 2006
- Laban condemns mainstream Pacific media coverage, 22 September 2006
- Minister calls for better balance in news mix, 22 September 2006
- PIMA tackles thorny ethical issues, 21 September 2006
- Small guns play big role at PIMA talks, 1 September 2006
- PIMA 2006 preview, 1 September 2006
Last year’s conference in the print edition of Te Waha Nui:
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Reporting team: Ali Bell, Laura Bond, Vicky Crawford, Vicki Waterhouse, Merle Foster
Online: Merle Foster
Photos: Helen Twose, Alan Koon
Radio: Vanessa Forrest
Supervising lecturer: Dr David Robie
Small guns play big role at PIMA talks
1 September 2006
John Utanga
By Dianna Vezich: Te Waha Nui Online
Involving smaller Pacific media organisations is the aim of this year's Pacific Islands media conference.
Pacific Island Media Association chairman John Utanga says there is a large number of small Pacific Island media organisations in operation, especially in Auckland.
"We all know about Tagata Pasifika and Niu FM, but there are a lot of community-based Pacific media that don't really get a look," says Utanga.
The conference, now in its fifth year, will be held at AUT University on September 22-23.
Utanga says PIMA wants to pay respect to the "pioneer types" of Pacific media such as the Samoana newspaper in South Auckland and Radio Samoa.
"We're taking a bit more of a backward look and bringing everyone up to scratch," he says.
This is ironic since this year's conference theme is Pasifika Media: Our Future.
The theme was chosen as new, web-based, digital media will be widely discussed at the conference.
Utanga says Pacific Island people in the media need to learn to make the most of the internet, because it's cheaper to operate and reaches a broader audience.
The conference will feature an array of guest speakers from Journalism Training Organisation executive director Jim Tucker to Kalafi Moala, owner of Lali Media Group.
Moala will fly from his home in San Francisco to speak at the conference about his newspaper, Taimi 'O Tonga, which has previously been banned in Tonga.
His newspaper is now distributed in Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, and North America - the latter region having the fastest growing readership.
Associate Minister of Pacific Island Affairs Luamanuvao Winnie Laban will open the conference.
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