Rethinking journalism for supporting social cohesion and democracy: case study of media performance in Fiji

Singh, Shailendra B.

doi:10.14264/uql.2015.818

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Section: Journalism Practice In Nigeria and Fiji During Military Rulementioning

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“…Like Nigeria, the media-government relationship in Fiji has been fraught since colonial times with an emphasis on the watchdog role, which has been grudgingly tolerated, and at times detested by successive ruling powers (Robie, 2014;Singh, 2015). Following a smooth transition to nationhood and parliamentary democracy in 1970, Fiji's media attempted to uphold the British free press traditions, even in the face of four coups between 1987 and 2006 (Singh, 2015). The 1987 coup, the Pacific's first, was staged by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka who claimed he was protecting indigenous Fijian rights from a perceived threat from Indo-Fijians, descendants of Indian labourers the British shipped to Fiji to develop the colony's sugar industry.…”

Section: Journalism Practice In Nigeria and Fiji During Military Rulementioning

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Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries

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Murray

Singh

2016

International Communication Gazette

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There have been significant changes in journalistic practices in various countries over the years. Yet little is known about the nature of changes in journalism in transitional developing countries following military rule. Drawing on email surveys of journalists in Nigeria and Fiji, two countries with recent histories of military dictatorship that are rarely examined in the research literature, this comparative study investigates journalistic practices in the two countries. Results show that in Nigeria, the transition from military rule to democratic system of government in May 1999 and the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act in 2011 have ushered in significant changes in the way journalism is practised. However, there remains an adversarial relationship between the government and journalists. In Fiji, the 2006 coup, the fourth in the country’s history, led to a more restrictive environment for journalists, despite democratic elections in 2014. Under pressure, journalists are rethinking their roles, with some now considering ‘development journalism’ as a legitimate journalistic genre. These findings contribute to our understanding of journalistic practices in non-Western cultures following transition from military rule to democracy.

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Section: Journalism Practice In Nigeria and Fiji During Military Rulementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Journalism Practice In Nigeria and Fiji During Military Rulementioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries

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Murray

Singh

2016

International Communication Gazette

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“…This is the apparent trend in some other parts of the world. Since Fiji implemented media reforms in the 1990s, the media ownership structure has become increasingly corporatised, with allegations that certain Fijian media are in collaboration with business and the government in exchange for advertising contracts (Robie, 2014;Singh, 2015).…”

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Coping with change in India’s media: Struggles of English-language journalists in an evolving mediascape

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Singh

2020

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In recent times, journalism, worldwide, has been undergoing significant changes. Some of the major revolutions have occurred in India, the world’s largest democracy. The size and face of Indian news media have seen rapid transformations owing to major economic, technological, and political developments in the country in recent decades. The focus of this research is on how India’s English-language media are dealing with the various changes, including digital disruptions and other pressures under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Hindutva’ government. The insights are drawn from the experiences and perceptions of a sample of journalists at the forefront of covering major events. Being in the coalface, these journalists are bearing the brunt of the developments, both good and bad. The email interviews reveal that while the English-language media may be a small part of India’s vast national media landscape, they are also buffeted by some major developments in the country, and fighting to maintain their independence in the face of some powerful trends and influences in technology, politics, and commerce.

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“…The Fiji Sun and Fiji Broadcasting Corporation were two of the more prominent outlets that had benefitted from a de facto government policy to only advertise with them, preventing other organisations from benefitting from the taxpayers' money used to fund these advertisements (Narsey, 2015a(Narsey, , 2015b(Narsey, , 2016aParliament of Fiji, 2015). For its part, the Fiji Sun prints a never-ending stream of sycophantic front-page articles and photographs of government leaders, their activities and pronouncements (Dorney, 2011;Robie, 2016;S. B. Singh, 2014).…”

Section: Captured News Media Theorymentioning

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Pacific Journalism Monographs No. 6: Watching Our Words: Perceptions of self-censorship and media freedom in Fiji

Morris¹

2017

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Ricardo Morris, a journalist and Thomson Reuters fellow from Fiji, has studied the perceptions and practice of self-censorship among journalists from his country in the years following the military coup in December 2006. He focused particularly on the period after the 2014 general election that returned Fiji to democratic rule. In this research monograph, Morris examines how willing Fiji’s media workers are to self-censor, how self-censorship works in newsrooms, and what factors are influential on journalists’ work. The research monograph was first published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and has been published by the Pacific Journalism Monograph series at the Pacific Media Centre by arrangement with the author and institute. Morris is the founder, publisher and editor of independent media company Republika Media Limited in Fiji, which publishes the magazine Repúblika.

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Rethinking journalism for supporting social cohesion and democracy: case study of media performance in Fiji

Abstract: This thesis examines conflict reporting in Fiji, an ethnically and politically divided Pacific island country debilitated by four socially and economically devastating coups between 1987 and 2006.

Cited by 7 publications

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Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries

Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries

Coping with change in India’s media: Struggles of English-language journalists in an evolving mediascape

Pacific Journalism Monographs No. 6: Watching Our Words: Perceptions of self-censorship and media freedom in Fiji

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