Alex Perrottet is a Masters/Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies student taking the Asia-Pacific Journalism course at AUT University.
He also has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the College of Law, Sydney.
Alex has a strong interest in Pacific affairs and recenly completed a radio research project on media censorship in Fiji. He took up the Pacific Media Watch contributing editor role in AUT University's Pacific Media Centre in mid-2010.
He is involved in a youth development project in Samoa and won a highly commended award for the best online current affairs report in the Journalism Education of Australia (JEA) awards in 2010 for a series of reports on reconstruction in Samoa one year after the September 2009 tsunami.
In 2011, he researched and was co-author of the Pacific Media Watch and Pacific Journalism Review Pacific Media Freedom Report 2011.
