A Journalist's Guide to Maori and Current Affairs

It's 23 years since author Michael King produced KAWE KORERO, his straightforward and accessible guidebook on how journalists could best interact with Maori and report their stories.

His work has endured. But it has been apparent for some time something more comprehensive was needed to keep pace with the Maori renaissance and its impacts, which the so-called news media has at times struggled to report with any measure of confidence or competence.

Carol Archie has put together just such a book. She has employed with extensive experience and knowledge as a journalist covering Maori stories over several decades to write and edit this book.

It is a seminal work that not only updates advice on protocols, the use of te reo and how best of approach news involving Maori, but also traces the historical development of Maori media, Maori journalists and the culture which formed them.

This is a comprehensive textbook - with a CD on pronunciation included - that will inform and guide the next generation of journalists, teachers, students, academics - and Maori - on best practice in the complex world of media and its at times fractious interaction with Maoridom..

Softcover - 174 pages plus CD

Published 2007

Very good + condition