Journalist from Fiji takes Award
Fiji Television Limited journalist, Shane Hussein, has won the South Pacific Young Television Journalist Award.
TVNZ's Pacific Service and the Pacific Cooperation Foundation sponsored the award which was announced at the Pacific
News Association's Conference in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
24 year old Shane Hussein submitted three items, but it was his news coverage of the lead-up to last December's coup in
Fiji that won him the award.
The judges commented that Shane's item, 'Eve of the Coup', graphically portrayed political uncertainty and edginess as
the government in Fiji realised it was being taken over. They said the well-planned coverage enabled telling pictures of
the Prime Minister's last flight by helicopter as he avoided military road blocks set up by the new, emerging regime.
The coup occurred next day.
The judges were impressed with the overall high standard of Shane Hussein's items along with all those entered by
journalists from other Pacific Island broadcasters.
Shane receives an all-expenses-paid month-long secondment with TVNZ's Tagata Pasifika programme in Auckland to further
his craft.
ENDS