REVIEW: Noted: Democracy and the price of silence

Review of: Shoot the messenger: The report on the Nuku'alofa reconstruction project and why the government of Tonga dumped it, By Teena Brown Pulu. Auckland and Nuku'alofa: Taimi Publishers. Investigative journalism is critical to good governance in evolving South Pacific democracies, pa...

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Main Author: David Robie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pacific Media Centre 2012-05-01
Series:Pacific Journalism Review
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Online Access:https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/305
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Pacific Journalism Review
Environmental journalism
Freedom of expression
Investigative journalism
Photojournalism
Press freedom
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title_short REVIEW: Noted: Democracy and the price of silence
title_full REVIEW: Noted: Democracy and the price of silence
title_fullStr REVIEW: Noted: Democracy and the price of silence
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publisher Pacific Media Centre
series Pacific Journalism Review
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2324-2035
publishDate 2012-05-01
description Review of: Shoot the messenger: The report on the Nuku'alofa reconstruction project and why the government of Tonga dumped it, By Teena Brown Pulu. Auckland and Nuku'alofa: Taimi Publishers. Investigative journalism is critical to good governance in evolving South Pacific democracies, particularly the youngest, Tonga, which embarked on the biggest democratic reforms in a century in 2010. This is the view of Auckland Tongan anthropologist, social commentator and now author of a suppressed-then-exposed report about post-riots urban development.
topic Environmental journalism
Freedom of expression
Investigative journalism
Photojournalism
Press freedom
url https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/305
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