October 30, 2017
Maori lens often missing in mainstream media
Last year’s winner Maiki Sherman has again made the finals of the Massey University Maori Journalist of the Year Awards, run alongside Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards.
Massey assistant vice-chancellor Maori and Pasifika, Dr Charlotte Severne says this year’s finalists have expressed Maori perspectives often missing in mainstream media and demonstrated how Maori journalists draw on their culture and language to win the hearts and minds of New Zealanders.
This year there are separate categories for English and te reo Maori stories.
Ms Sherman’s entries include a Newshub political analysis of King Tuheitia’s backing of the Maori party and a te reo Maori story for Maori Language Week. long series on the 6pm news is a finalist.
In the te reo Maori categories, Heeni Brown entered her Te Kaea coverage of the death of Dr Ranginui Walker and its impact on his iwi Te Whakatohea, while another Maori Television reporter, Ripeka Timutimu looked at the NZ Herald’s refusal to publish a memorial notice in te reo Maori.
Oriini Kaipara’s entry is a Native Affairs segment on a man’s decision to have a normally female only moko kauae, while Renee Kahukura Iosefa entered her Native Affairs story in which then-New Plymouth Mayor Andrew Judd outed himself as a recovering racist.
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Te Papa in Wellington on November 8.
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