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Rosie Tuck is a graduate journalist who gained a Bachelor of Communication Studies at AUT University in 2011.
She is currently working in the TVNZ One News newsroom on the assignments desk, writing stories and cutting footage for Breakfast and TVNZ7.
During her time at AUT University, Tuck covered stories ranging from "slave" fishing in New Zealand waters to biosecurity risks and babies growing up in prisons. She has also studied acting for a year in Sydney at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
"I feel very strongly about social justice issues," she says. "This is due to my upbringing and my parents having had a strong influence in my life. Teaching me to always stand up and speak out for what is right and just especially for those who are less privileged than myself."
She is also one of three recipients of the 2012 Pacific Media Centre international internships and the AUT/China Daily Exchange Programme, in partnership with the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Rosie Tuck stories
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Heath Moore is a final year Bachelor of Communication Studies student majoring in journalism at AUT University.
He has grown up in West Auckland and has a keen interest in his community.
His previous journalism experiences has been contributing to AUT's magazine Debate and he is now a contributor to Pacific Scoop and Pacific Media Centre Online.
"I am a huge sports and music fan, playing cricket and football," he says. "And I am a musician who plays the drums."
Heath Moore stories on PMC Online
Heath Moore stories on Pacific Scoop
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Melissa Low is a third year Bachelor of Communications student journalist at AUT University.
She is majoring in journalism and minoring in digital media and is attached to the Pacific Media Centre/Pacific Scoop as a News Reporting intern.
"I'm interested in cultural, music, fashion, social media/technology, entertainment and human interest stories," she says.
"I was born in Auckland, and have lived on the North Shore for my entire life, but I am of Chinese Malaysian decent."
She also contributes to AUT's Debate magazine as a music reviewer, columnist and feature writer and has a blog www.melinthemilkyway.blogspot.com
"I love photography and design. My goal in life is to launch my own magazine."
Low is the 2012 Asia New Zealand Foundation's Kiwi Asian Journalism Scholarship winner.
Melissa Low stories
Melissa Low stories on Pacific Scoop
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Jessi Mee is a final year Bachelor of Communication Studies student majoring in journalism at AUT University.
She is passionate about people's stories - she loves finding a human interest angle.
Other areas of interest include education, healthcare, politics, arts, culture, music/pop culture and ethics and law.
Her dream is to be a radio or TV broadcaster.
Jessi Mee stories on PMC Online
Jessi Mee stories on Pacific Scoop
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Sarah Robson got her start in journalism at the age of 16, writing for the youth magazine Tearaway. While studying at Victoria University of Wellington, she started writing for the student magazine, Salient. She worked her way up the ranks, from news writer, to feature writer, to editor in 2010.
Robson was named Junior Magazine Feature Writer of the Year at the 2010 Qantas Media Awards for a selection of features published in Salient throughout 2009. She has also done stints at Radio New Zealand, Herald on Sunday and Idealog.
She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in political science at Victoria in 2009 and completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Communications Studies (Journalism) at AUT in 2011.
Robson is now a reporter for NZ Newswire, the Australian Associated Press news agency in New Zealand, based in the Auckland bureau.
She has been a contributor to PMC Online and Pacific Scoop while on the Asia-Pacific Journalism paper. She is also one of three recipients of the 2012 Pacific Media Centre international internships and the AUT/China Daily Exchange Programme, in conjunction with the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Sarah Robson stories
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Nigel Moffiet is an AUT University journalism graduate and editor of Debate magazine.
As a journalist, he has worked in India and with The Dominion Post and the Whakatane Beacon on internships. He has had stories and photos published in the Manukau Courier, Indian Weekender, Scoop, Pacific Scoop, Te Waha Nui and the Pacific Media Centre.
Moffiet has reported on a wide range of topics from sport, business, health, environment, social issues and Asia-Pacific affairs, including coverage of the 2011 Pacific Islands Forum. He has been trained in print, audio and video platforms.
He graduated in 2011 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies (Journalism) at AUT. He is also one of three recipients of the 2012 Pacific Media Centre international internships and the AUT/China Daily Exchange Programme, in conjunction with sponsorship from the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Nigel Moffiet stories
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Taberannang Korauaba is from Kiribati and graduated as a Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours) in AUT's School of Communication Studies. He studied on an AUT/Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) Pasifika communications scholarship in 2007 and was also a Pacific Media Watch project researcher that year.
A former journalist and editor from the Broadcasting Publications Authority (BPA) on Tarawa, he is has published the I-Kiribati newsletter Tematairiki in New Zealand and has worked with other media. He now publishes the Kiribati Independent and is researching climate change and the media on the MCS programme.
Taberannang Korauaba articles on PMC
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Myles Idoko Ojabo is a postgraduate student from Nigeria at AUT University and studied on the Asia-Pacific Journalism course.
He was a member of the APJ team that covered the 40th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) conference in Auckland in September. He writes on his blog:
I was born in Benin City, Nigeria, in 1983. Then, my mother was a medical student battling with studies while my father was in far away Zaria, Nigeria, working as a veterinary doctor, and expecting me to be born in October. The so-called fast telegraph system of communication then, wasn’t enough to alert the father that his baby had been born on September 16. The veterinary doctor met his baby a month after he had been born.
I had always loved writing and reading fiction. My parents thought guiding me through the sciences was a better option. I didn’t read medicine or veterinary medicine as my parents might have wished. Instead I ended up reading fisheries from the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. As an undergraduate, I started a campus magazine, Spectacles, which promoted literature and entertainment. I was also a one time president of a campus writers association.
I published my first novel, Shambles of a Predicament, at the age of 24. The novel tells a story of two men respectively struggling to cope with the adversities of homosexuality and HIV dilemmas.
Myles is currently a volunteer with the PMC.
Other Myles Idoko Ojabo stories
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Corazon Miller is an AUT University graduate journalist on an internship with the Jakarta Globe in Indonesia.
As a recipient of the 2011 Pacific Media Centre international internships, supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation, she is working at the Globe for six weeks in July-August.
Since graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies (Journalism) in 2010, she has worked as a freelancer for the TV programme Asia Downunder, a newspaper called Touchstone and as a nurse in neonatal intensive care.
Miller was also awarded the Asia New Zealand Foundation's inaugural Kiwi Asian Journalism Scholarship in 2010. Her reporting reflects her interest in "diversity" stories, highlighting issues faced by minority groups around the world.
During her year in AUT's journalism programme she covered stories from disability within New Zealand's mainstream education to challenges for education in Afghanistan.
Corazon Miller stories
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Chen Bei is brushing up on her journalism for a semester in the School of Communication Studies at AUT University.
Chen comes from the Beijing-based China Daily, China's first English-language newspaper. She is now deputy editor for China Daily's bilingual mobile newspaper in the state-owned media outlet's Mobile Newsroom.
Chen started her career in China Daily in 2002 after earning her master's degree in English language and literature. She regularly contributed stories for the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
She is on the AUT/China Daily Exchange Programme and is attached to the Pacific Media Centre.
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Yvonne Brill is a postgraduate student studying towards her Masters of Communication Studies at AUT University.
After graduating in 2007 from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English, Yvonne spent almost 3 years working in the media research industry before returning to postgraduate study.
She has experience working within the Pasifika community in Auckland having previously worked as a professional development researcher at the Pasifika Education Centre, in a PR/Communications studentship role for the Office of Pasifika Advancement at AUT, and is currently sitting on the executive board of the Pacific Islands Media Association as the student representative.
She is one of three recipients of the 2011 Pacific Media Centre international internships, in conjunction with the Asia New Zealand Foundation. She joined China Daily.com for three months in August.
Yvonne's PMC stories
Yvonne's blog
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Kim Bowden is on a three-month internship with the state-owned China Daily in Beijing.
She hails from Auckland, and recently completed AUT University’s Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies as a journalist.
The move into journalism has been a change in career path for Kim, who previously worked for six years with adventure tour company Intrepid Travel in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Zealand. She also had a year-long stint as an electoral secretary.
Kim graduated from the University of Auckland in 2001 with an Arts degree in political studies and geography.
Kim has been a frequent contributor to PMC Online and Pacific Scoop while on the Asia-Pacific Journalism paper. She is also one of three recipients of the 2011 Pacific Media Centre international internships and the AUT/China Daily Exchange Programme, in conjunction with the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Kim Bowden stories
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Rukhsana Aslam is a journalist and educator from Pakistan.
She is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication Studies and is working closely with the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution. She is researching a thesis on peace journalism as applied to journalism education.
Rukhsana has written many articles on the topic and contributed to a recent book Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution (2010).
She was the recipient of the 2011 Asian Journalism Fellowship, sponsored by the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Rukhsana's articles and projects
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Violet Cho, an ethnic Karen refugee who writes for Irawaddy magazine in Thailand, was the first Asian journalist to come to New Zealand under the AUT Pacific Media Centre’s inaugural Asian Journalism Fellowship funded by the Asia New Zealand Foundation in 2009.
Cho, who fled Burma with her family to begin life in a Thai refugee camp in 1991, was a resource journalist with the PMC for staff and students during her time in New Zealand in 2009. She also completed a BCS (Hons) dissertation on the Burmese diaspora at AUT.
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Pippa Brown is an AUT Graduate Diploma in Journalism journalist who was on internship with the Pacific Media Centre in June 2009
Pippa Brown stories
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Micheal Soon is a Bachelor of Social Sciences student at AUT University who was on internship with the Pacific Media Centre in semester 2 2009.
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Courtney Wilson was an intern at the Pacific Media Centre in November/December 2010.
She recently completed AUT’s Bachelor of Communications Studies programme majoring in journalism. She also completed brief internships at the Northern Advocate and the Hawke’s Bay Today.
Courtney is now studying for a Masters in Conflict Resolution and International Relations at the University of Otago.
Read Courtney Wilson articles here
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Christine Williams was a Masters in Communication Studies student at AUT on internship with the Pacific Media Centre for Semester 2, 2008.
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