Challenges lie ahead for MTS in the Aotearoa public sphere

Paul, Joanna

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“…Seven Māori magazines, including Mana (www.manaonline.co.nz), Tu Mai (www.tumaimagazine.com) and Spasifik (actually Pacific with a Māori interest), are well-established and the Māori Television Service (www.maoritelevision.com) was launched in 2004, overcoming widespread mainstream media and conservative political opposition (see Paul, 2005): 'The incarnations include Māori programming on mainstream television, Aotearoa Television, the Electoral College, Te Manu Aute, Nga Aho Whakaari, MTS legislation and the exhaustive process of building a new channel for all New Zealanders' (p. 42). MTS reported a successful inaugural year of broadcasting with more than 90 percent of its schedule being locally-made programmes.…”

Section: News Value Modelsmentioning

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‘Four Worlds’ news values revisited: A deliberative journalism paradigm for Pacific media

Robie¹

2013

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South Pacific media face a challenge of developing forms of journalism that contribute to the national ethos by mobilising change from passive communities to those seeking change. Instead of the news values that have often led international media to exclude a range of perspectives, such a notion would promote deliberation by journalists to enable the participation of all community stakeholders, ‘including the minorities, the marginalised, the disadvantaged and even those deemed as “deviant’” (Romano, 2010). Critical deliberative journalism is issue-based and includes diverse and even unpopular views about the community good and encourages an expression of plurality. In a Pacific context, this resonates more with news media in some developed countries that have a free but conflicted press such as in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. This has far more relevance in the Pacific than a monocultural ‘Western’ news model as typified by Australia and New Zealand. Early in the millennium, this author examined notions of the Fourth Estate in the South Pacific. These were applied through a ‘Four Worlds’ news values prism in the global South that included the status of Indigenous minorities in dominant nation states (Robie, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2009b). This article explores how that has been modified over the past decade and its implications for media and democracy in the Pacific.

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Section: News Value Modelsmentioning

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‘Four Worlds’ news values revisited: A deliberative journalism paradigm for Pacific media

Robie¹

2013

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“…It is possible, too, that their professional status claims also reflect a burden of representation felt within that field, where Māori and Pacific media have often been reported within a frame of 'brown failure'. Māori Television's attempts to get on air were repeatedly negatively reported (Paul 2005), while Niu FM and Radio 531pi's internal wrangling (which involved mediation and public allegations of contract breaches and profligate spending) was staged in public and widely reported (Misa 2003). This external criticism and framing put higher-profile English-language Pacific media and state-funded Pacific media under additional pressure to prove their professionalism and corporate responsibility.…”

Section: Pacific Journalistmentioning

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Pulled two Ways: Norms of ‘Pacificness’ and Journalism in New Zealand's Pacific News Media

Ross

2019

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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is a senior lecturer and head of the journalism programme at the University of Canterbury, where she is also a research fellow with the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. She was an award-winning senior reporter for The Press and the Sunday Star-Times newspapers, and has worked as both a freelance writer and editor, as well as for community news publications. She is of Pākehā and Tuvaluan descent, and studies journalism, diversity issues, ethnic minorities and Pacific media. @taraross_nz, orcid.org/0000-0002-6664-711X Pulled two ways: Norms of 'Pacificness' and journalism in New Zealand's Pacific news media By looking at how Pacific media producers position themselves in different contexts, this paper identifies complex identity politics within the communities of practice of New Zealand's Pacific news media production. Interviews with 23 Pacific news media producers reveal a tension between two fields of journalistic and Pacific norms that hinge upon different locative practices-strategic ploys to locate oneself and one's media in relation to community and to other Pacific and mainstream mediaand appear to depend on each media outlets' positioning in relation to language, mainstream institutions and their ethnic community. Analysis of these locative practices helps to reveal some of the power relations embedded in Pacific media outlets' structural, cultural and ideological contexts. Unlike members of the dominant group, who have arguably more stability in identity, Pacific peoples' identity is always negotiated, and in ways that must continually answer back to the different forces that position them.

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“…The chairperson is a Crown appointment. Paul (2005) describes this joint Crown/Māori working partnership as a first of its kind for the industry, and adds:…”

Section: Ka Puawai: the Genesis Of Māori Television Servicementioning

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“…MTS calculates that each year since 2004, between 500 and 600 full-time equivalent jobs have resulted from its activities and the independent production industry (MTS 2009d). However, swift growth has also brought challenges (Paul, 2005):…”

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Ka Rangona te Reo: The Development of Māori-language Television Broadcasting in Aotearoa New Zealand

Middleton¹

2010

tekaharoa

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New Zealanders today can hear Māori language broadcast in a variety of contexts: on Māori Television and to a lesser extent on state-owned TV1, TV2 and privately-held TV3, on digital platforms and via broadcasters' programmes-on-demand internet sites. However, these opportunities are a relatively recent development spurred by years of agitation by Māori about the decline of te reo Māori in an English-saturated world and the recognition that the powerful medium of television broadcasting could help promote, protect and enhance reo and tikanga.

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Challenges lie ahead for MTS in the Aotearoa public sphere

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‘Four Worlds’ news values revisited: A deliberative journalism paradigm for Pacific media

‘Four Worlds’ news values revisited: A deliberative journalism paradigm for Pacific media

Pulled two Ways: Norms of ‘Pacificness’ and Journalism in New Zealand's Pacific News Media

Ka Rangona te Reo: The Development of Māori-language Television Broadcasting in Aotearoa New Zealand

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