New Footage, Photos, News & Features On Newswire
What’s new on NewsWire.co.nz , the website of Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s Journalism School
Journalism student Chris Armstrong talks about NewsWire’s top stories on YouTube:
Samoa’s driving rules, migrant workers and same-sex partners at school balls: journalists are reflecting more diversity
in their reportage, say judges of the New Zealand Excellence in Diversity Journalism Awards.
The award winners, announced today, were headed in first place by Adrian Stevanon, of TV1 and Tagata Pasifika. Second place went to Rebecca Todd, the Press, Christchurch; and third equal to Michelle McCullough, Dunedin Star; and Ruth Grundy, Southern Rural Life and Courier Country.
Whitireia Community Polytechnic student Tasha Black, of NewsWire, was highly commended for her feature on young Wellingtonian converts to Islam. Carolyn Thomas, Western Leader, was also highly commended.
RUBY ARMSTRONG-KOOY checks out Wellington’s White Ribbon Day.
New life is planned for Porirua’s tired old CBD. CATHERINE McGREGOR reports on changes lined up by a council-private
investor partnership. WITH PHOTO ESSAY.
Harden up, guys, if you want a place in the World Cup rugby under-20s squad. LIZ PROCTOR asks Wellingtonian Junior Savea
about gruelling challenges at the Outdoor Pursuits Centre.
An Australian conservation group tells DANIEL SIMMONS RITCHIE that New Zealand’s proposed game council could lead to
taxpayer bailouts and pest problems, as it did for New South Wales.
Our Hotwired blogger Bonnie Tai rues neglecting her dental health and feels the burn of her Chinese mum’s “I told you so”.
PLUS: Whitireia Polytechnic journalism students take their cameras inside city life. Photo essays on:
Multicultural dance (Janice Ikiua)
Wellington’s home of cricket (Blair Stewart)
Christmas parade (Chris Armstrong)
ENDS