Mads Anneberg's profile on Ricardo Morris and Repúblika.
THREE STUDENTS from AUT University covered Fiji's historic “from dictatorship to democracy” general election this month.
While the election arguably legitimised Voreqe Bainimarama’s so-called 2006 “coup to end all coups”, the students performed something of a coup themselves.
Not only were they providing the first ever comprehensive coverage of a Pacific national election by a New Zealand journalism school, but their reportage was far superior to much of the Kiwi media that was ill-prepared for the occasion.
In fact, some were unashamedly parachute journos covering a complex event on September 17 that was overshadowed by New Zealand’s own election three days later.
All three students were reporting as a “package” for Pacific Scoop, the course outlet for AUT’s postgraduate Asia-Pacific Journalism course run by the Pacific Media Centre. But while two were on the ground in Fiji, the third was an “anchor” - monitoring, writing and editing stories to provide an overall contextualised story.
Mads Anneberg, from the Danish School of Media and Journalism on exchange with AUT as part of the Inclusive Journalism Initiative (IJI), was with the impressive Repúblika magazine and its multimedia websites under the leadership of Ricardo Morris.
Alistar Kata was attached to the University of the South Pacific’s Wansolwara and provided two interviews with Radio Australia’s Bruce Hill while on the job. She developed a comprehensive portfolio of multimedia stories, including reports on Fiji's captive peacekeeping soldiers in Syria.
Back in New Zealand, she provided an 11 minute video commentary on her impressions and insights.
Ricardo was impressed:
Mads and Star were awesome. The entire team at Repúblika enjoyed our time with Mads who was such a tuned-in and efficient multi-media journalist. He even got his photos published on page 3 of the Fiji Times the day after the election and got a photo of his over the entire front page on Friday. My photo of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Bainimarama was used as the front page today [Saturday] but credited to Mads - so we made it three days in a row in the FT.Also in Auckland, Thomas Carnegie held the coverage together and provided some overviews of his own.
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| Mads Anneberg, Alistar Kata and Thomas Carnegie. Image: Del Abcede/PMC |
Their full Fiji elections archive is here.
Kapai to the whole team.
- Pacific Scoop Fiji Elections 2014 archive
- Café Pacific's comment on the media
- Mads Anneberg's message to the people of Fiji
Alistar Kata's reflections in the Fiji Elections 2014 for the Pacific Media Centre.
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