USP School of Journalism Public Lecture by Visiting Journalist and Author
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 | Journalism students, members of the media and USP academics at the Public Lecture conducted by visiting Radio Australia Journalist and Author, Mr Bruce Hill. |
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The University of the South Pacific’s Faculty of Arts and Law, hosted workshops for journalism students, and a public lecture conducted by Mr Bruce Hill, a senior reporter with the ABC’s Asia-Pacific News Center, last week.
Mr Hill has 18 years of experience reporting on the Pacific Islands region. The topic of his public lecture on Thursday 4 March, was “Reporting the Pacific Region”. The session was well attended by student journalists, members of the media and USP academics.
Among the issues highlighted by Mr Hill, was the role of journalists. “It¹s not our job to tell people what to think”, he said. “Our job is to provide people with the information they need, to make up their own minds. If we do that professionally, accurately, honestly, impartially, independently and try to maintain balance, then by simply being who and what we are, and applying our values to our work, we act as an example”.
Mr Hill began his career in the Pacific with Radio New Zealand International, and since 2000, he has been part of Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program, based in Melbourne. He has covered coups, cyclones, and political unrest, but counts the signing of the peace accords that ended the civil war on Bougainville; the aftermath of the tsunami disaster on the northern coast of PNG; and the RAMSI intervention in the Solomon Islands as the most memorable issues he's been able to tackle.
In the evening, a cocktail was organised to allow journalists from Fiji to meet Mr Hill.
The USP Journalism Students Association president, Mr Fenton Lutunatabua thanked Mr Hill for freely giving his time to talk to students during his stay.
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