Dr Philip Cass full CV

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Dr Philip Cass. Curriculum vitae.
Date and place of birth: February 20, 1959, Wewak, Papua New Guinea.
Citizenship: Australian.
Current occupation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, Unitec
Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Contact: e-mail: pcass@unitec.ac.nz (work)
cass.philip@gmail.com (private)
Ph: 00+64+(0)9 815 4321 ext 8380 (work)
00+64+(0)9 846 1428 (home)
Qualifications: BA (Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education) 1979
B.Lit (Deakin University) 1992
MA (Central Queensland University) 1997
Thesis: ‘The Apostolate of the Press: Missionary language policy,
translation and publication in German New Guinea.’
PhD (Central Queensland University) 2008.
Thesis: ‘People, politics and the press in Papua New Guinea 1950-
1975.’
Memberships: Associate Editor/Reviews Editor, Pacific Journalism Review,
Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand).
Research Associate, Pacific Media Centre, Auckland University of
Technology. (New Zealand)
Pacific representative, management board, European Society for
Oceanists (EU)
International advisory board, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media
Research (UK)
Editorial advisory board, E-journalist, Central Queensland
University (Australia).
Community activities: Editorial adviser/journalist, Kaniva News (Auckland).
Tour guide, aviation collection, Museum of Transport and
Technology (Auckland).
Member, Peace and International Justice Committee, Catholic
Diocese (Auckland).
Languages: English, Tok Pisin, tourist level French and German, some Arabic.
Educational experience: I have worked in a number of tertiary systems, including the
Australian and New Zealand systems, the UK undergraduate
honours model and the US four year liberal arts college model.
Time zone: New Zealand is GMT + 12 hrs

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2010-2016
Senior Lecturer/Postgraduate Programme Leader
Department of Communication Studies, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand
I joined Unitec at the beginning of October 2010 to take up a position as senior lecturer, with a
separate short term contract as Postgraduate Programme Leader running concurrently. I renewed
my contract as Programme Leader until the beginning of second semester 2013 and have acted
in that position on a number of occasions since then.
As Programme Leader my duties involved working closely with the Head of Department and
members of the postgraduate team on re-modelling our Masters’ and Postgraduate Diploma
offerings in consultation with external stakeholders. I represented the department on a number
of faculty and institutional committees, including our Department’s Research Students’ Approvals
committee and the Unitec Postgraduate Research and Scholarship Committee.
I have continued to research and publish on a range of issues on the Middle East, the Pacific and
New Zealand. My most recent presentation was a paper on the role of the Tongan diasporic media
in Auckland in the 2014 Tongan elections given to the European Society for Oceanists’ conference
in Brussells. I was subsequently invited to join the ESfO board as the representative for the Pacific.
My teaching duties since joining Unitec have involved teaching International and Political
Communication at the postgraduate level and International Communication to the
undergraduate programme. These courses use media analysis to explore how a range of media
theories and practices work in specific global situations, with a strong emphasis on issues such as
the Millenium Development Goals, global warming, human rights and projections of soft and hard
power by regional governments. I also teach News Writing and research skills to undergraduates.
I have successfully moved to have digital media built into the options for postgraduate theses and
have introduced a digital media presentation to the undergraduate International communication
course.
I contribute to a number of other courses within the department and my knowledge of the Arab
media has been used in presentations on media representations of Arabs and Islam to our
Intercultural Communication Global Communication classes. I have acted as supervisor and
associate supervisor of a number of MA students in our postgraduate programme, most recently
with students researching a sexual health project in Laos, Chinese diasporic media in New Zealand
and digital newspapers in Vietnam. I also supervise undergraduate research students.
I helped organise the 2014 Pacific Journalism Review 20th
anniversary conference and was joint
editor of the subsequent book of the conference. This year I am helping to organise a conference
on journalism education in the Pacific that will precede the World Journalism Education Congress
meeting in Auckland.
In 2014 my book Press, Politics and People in Papua New Guinea 1950-75 was published by Unitec
e-press. It has been the subject of a story and interview on Radio Australia and was described by
a recent review as having “much to offer university courses in journalism, history and social
science methodology.”
In 2013 I was invited to contribute a survey of the media in Australia’s external territories to the
prestigious Companion to the Australian Media.
I have acted as external course moderator and thesis examiner for Auckland University of
Technology, Auckland University and the University of Queensland. I have acted as a reader for
papers submitted to the Pacific Journalism Review , Contemporary Papua New Guinea Studies and
the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies and for conferences in Sydney and Auckland.

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I correspond with other researchers on Pacific and Middle East matters in the United States and
the Middle East. Because of my research on the early press in the United Arab Emirates I have
been consulted by the author researching an official history of Al Bayan newspaper in Dubai.
In 2015 I was invited by Koc University in Istanbul to contribute a section on Papua New Guinea
to an EU-funded project, “Regimes of Ethnicity: A Global Database of Ethnic Demography and
Survey of State Policies on Ethnicity."
 College of Applied Science, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman
Assistant Professor
2009-10
To round off a decade in the Arabian Gulf I took up a short term contract as Assistant Professor
at the College of Applied Science in Nizwa at the beginning of October, 2009, teaching in a
communications and journalism programme designed by Auckland University of Technology. In
my first semester I taught media ethics, theory and a survey course on the media in Oman. I also
taught a range of theoretical media courses to advanced level students. In my second semester I
was course leader for Global Media Studies. After teaching in the COAS summer semester in 2010
I accepted a position at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand.
 Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2000-2009: Assistant Professor/Assistant Dean.
I joined Zayed University in August 2000 after completing my contract at Teesside University. I
was a member of what was then a small unit tasked with establishing the College of
Communications and Media Sciences at the Abu Dhabi campus of Zayed University, a new
institution founded to make tertiary education available to Emirati women and to promote long
term social change by producing a body of educated and working women. Zayed University was
based on the American liberal arts college model. I initially concentrated on teaching writing and
print production. Because the university was new and because much of the material prepared by
outside consultants was culturally unsuitable I and my colleagues wrote or rewrote many of the
course outlines from scratch.
At the beginning of 2003 I was asked to become Assistant Dean. My duties included leading half
a dozen faculty and staff, liaising with other colleges within the university and collaborating with
the CCMS college on ZU’s Dubai campus, allocating resources, designing the timetable and
representing the college on university committees and meetings with visitors and foreign
dignitaries. I was also responsible for overall supervision of the academic progress of our students,
which meant keeping track of students at various stages in college and pre-college courses.
I served as Acting Dean on a number of occasions.
While I was Assistant Dean I continued to teach a full course load and gradually began to move
from my original focus on writing and print production to advanced courses on law, film criticism
and comparative journalism. At my suggestion, Dean Keefer authorised the conversion of one of
our faculty offices into a television studio and I prompted our video lecturer to develop a regular
student news programme. ZUTV was subsequently streamed on the university intranet.
During this period I worked on two university-funded research projects. The first was a large group
project which examined the press coverage of the initial period of the US invasion of Iraq and
compared it with the press coverage of the Second Intifada in Palestine by Arabic and American
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photographs in English-language and Arabic newspapers reflected equal treatment for the two
stories and whether the papers being examined explicitly linked the Intafada with the invasion. I
worked with the late Dr Jack Barwind to prepare our findings for presentation to the Arab-United
States Association for Communication Education conference in Cairo in November 2004.
In January and February 2004 I accompanied Professor Badran Badran to New Zealand to examine
similarities between the Arabic majlis and the Maori marae as social centres for decision making
and communication. This research reflected the often unexpected historical, personal and
cultural links between the Gulf and the Pacific. Professor Badran and I presented our findings at
a university research seminar and used our findings to inform our teachings in a variety of areas.
During the invasion of Iraq I provided material for the Times Higher Education Supplement’s online
news pages.
I stepped down from the position of Assistant Dean at the end of the Spring 2007 semester in
order to give myself time to complete my doctoral thesis. This was awarded in November 2008.
During the 2007-2008 academic year I helped the new Assistant Dean settle in and introduced
him to Zayed University’s academic and administrative environment. My teaching duties in this
period encompassed a broad range of courses, including Media Law and Ethics, Writing for
Advertising and Public Relations, Media Writing One and Two, the college’s introductory course,
independent study courses and Film Criticism. These courses ranged from very particular, industry
skills courses such as Media Writing to Media Law and Ethics, which examined ideas of the media,
law and ethical behaviour inside a broad historical, cultural and social context that took in
everything from the Code of Hammurabi to internet censorship in the UAE. The Film Criticism
course was taught in a number of forms, ranging from a study of Hollywood genres to a semester
devoted to Australian, New Zealand and Pacific films. I also supervised a practicum in which
students were introduced to the basics of sound recording and editing using Garageband and
Audacity as part of a long-term plan to establish a podcasting service for the ZU intranet. A basic
version was put up on the university intranet as a ‘proof of concept’ at the end of the 2007-2008
academic year. In the fall 2008 semester I also advised students preparing a podcast on Abu Dhabi
for a major project in tourism studies.
My other duties included academic supervision of a number of students and serving as the
college’s representative on the university’s Faculty Affairs Committee. My research and writing in
this period was dominated by the completion of my doctoral thesis under the supervision of
Professor Denis Cryle and Dr Steve Mullins at CQU. This was a multi-disciplinary study of the role
of the press in reporting political developments in Papua New Guinea from the re-establishment
of the Australian administration after the war to independence. It drew on elements of media,
colonial, political and missionary history, language, anthropology and developmental journalism.
 Teesside University, United Kingdom
1997-2000: Principal Lecturer.
I joined Teesside University in Middlesbrough to head the university’s BA (Hons) (Journalism)
programme, which was run in conjunction with Darlington College of Technology. My initial duties
involved writing and introducing university level courses to the degree programme. I liaised with
our colleagues in Darlington and with faculty from other departments at Teesside University who
contributed to the course. In 1998 I initiated publication of The Coranto, a multi-media newspaper
written by journalism students. I added a short course in television news production to the
syllabus and designed a media production course for the university’s IT students, which was
extremely popular. Unfortunately, the Teesside programme collapsed due to irreconcilable
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taught before the programme was terminated. Our external reviewer lamented that the end of
the programme came just as it was beginning to fulfil its potential.
While at Teesside I presented papers on media history and contemporary affairs at a number of
conferences within the UK and on the role of Tok Pisin as a language of national identity to the
European Society of Oceanists’ in the Netherlands. I published several journal articles and was
asked to join the editorial advisory board of Pacific Journalism Review. While in the UK I also
contributed articles to the Times Higher Education Supplement.
 University of the South Pacific, Fiji.
1995-97: Lecturer.
My principal duties at USP were curriculum development and I initiated and taught a number of
new courses, including the Diploma in Pacific Journalism, which was aimed at working journalists
wanting academic qualifications. The journalism degree at USP was funded by the French
government and was the second attempt to establish a permanent university programme in Fiji.
While at USP I started the student newspaper Wansolwara as an outlet for our students’ work.
Since I left USP, the paper has won several regional awards and a number of my former students
have gone on to senior editorial positions in the Islands’ media. I freelanced for a number of
publications and organisations and helped research an information pack on press freedom that
was to be distributed to schools by the Pacific Islands News Association. My main formal research
efforts were devoted to completing my MA thesis, ‘The Apostolate of the Press: Missionary
language policy, publication and translation in German New Guinea.’ The thesis, which was based
on field work, interviews and archival research in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Australia and the
Vatican, examined the different strategies adopted by Catholic and Protestant missions to create
written languages in German New Guinea and their long term effects on literacy, identity and the
media in PNG. My degree was awarded by Central Queensland University in 1997. I greatly
enjoyed teaching at USP, especially the fact that I had students from so many cultures and
language groups. In 1997 I applied for and was offered a position at Teesside University in the UK.
 Central Queensland University
1988-95: Lecturer
I joined what was then the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education at the beginning of 1988
after 10 years as a journalist, editor and broadcaster. Coming directly from an industry
background I concentrated on print production and started Felix Culpa, a full colour bi-monthly
newspaper supported by advertising which provided hands-on experience for our students.
In common with many Australian universities, CQU has an extensive external studies programme
and I was asked to write a journalism unit for external students. This was followed by a request
to contribute practical units to the university’s Masters in Science Communication degree, which
was also offered externally. While at CQU I encouraged my best students to take on outside
consultancy work and worked with them in the production of a number of in-house and external
publications. While at CQU I completed a B.Lit in journalism from Deakin University and began an
MA. I travelled extensively in Papua New Guinea doing fieldwork for the thesis and this led to my
being asked to run training workshops for journalists working for The Times of Papua New Guinea,
Wantok and The Eastern Star. This in turn led my being asked to join The Times as acting chief
sub-editor for the second half of 1994. On returning to Australia I was offered a position at the
University of the South Pacific in Fiji.

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1978-88: Journalist
I worked all over Queensland in Australian on a variety of publications. I started as a cadet
journalist on the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin and ended as a sub-editor on the state daily, the
Courier Mail. In between, I was editor of one of Murdoch’s more excitable weeklies, the
Townsville Advertiser, chief sub-editor of the North Queeensland Register, a farmer’s newspaper
specialising in cattle and sugar cane and senior writer for the now defunct Express group of
suburban weeklies in Brisbane. I also worked as a part-time broadcaster on 4TTTFM, a Townsville-
based community radio station, broadcasting a weekly news programme and running the
graveyard shift on Friday night. In 1988 the Brisbane Express group for which I was working was
abruptly closed and after a period as a sub-editor on the Courier Mail I successfully applied for a
position at my alma mater.
I have written, led, or contributed to, classes in the following areas:
News writing
Feature writing
Sports writing
Writing for public relations
Layout and design
Desktop publishing
Sub-editing
Newspaper production
Audio production
Photo journalism
Cinema
Media, law and ethics
International communication
International journalism
Global media
Intercultural communication
Communication theory
Political communication
Science communication
Media history
Media studies
Communication research
Internship supervision
BA (Hons) dissertation supervision
MA dissertation supervision
MA thesis supervision
MA thesis examination
PhD thesis examination
Internal and external course moderation

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RESEARCH AND WRITING PROJECTS 2016
 My conference presentation on the Tongan diasporic media in Auckland has been
accepted for publication.
 In 2014 I co-presented the paper ‘Keto dogs! The representation of Australians and New
Zealanders in Commando comics’ to the Media, War and Memory conference at Auckland
University of Technology. Following last year’s European Society for Oceanists’ conference
in Brussells I travelled to Scotland where I conducted interviews on this topic and arranged
for a follow up visit to the Scottish National Library archives. I intend to submit a first
paper on this topic for publication by mid-year.
 Following my conference paper on the newspaper coverage of Count von Luckner’s visit
to New Zealand, I have been researching the broader issue of Nazism in New Zealand and
the Pacific during the period of his visit. I am aiming for submission of a journal article in
2017.
 I am conducting research on the pre-independence press in Vanuatu and the Solomons.
Part of this will examine the links between the press in these countries and the Anglican
Church in Auckland. I intend to have a journal article ready for submission in 2017.
PUBLICATIONS
 Books
2015
David Robie, Barry King, Philip Cass and Wendy Bacon (eds), Political Journalism in the Asia-
Pacific. Pacific Journalism Review/Pacific Media Centre, Auckland. ISBN978-1-927184-29-5
2014
Press, Politics and People in Papua New Guinea 1950-75. Unitec e-press, Auckland.
ISBN: 978-1-927214-09-1. The book can be downloaded for free from
http://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/index.php/press-politics-and-people-in-papua-new-guinea-
1950-1975/
 Chapters in books
2014
‘The Media in Papua New Guinea and Australia’s External Territories,’ in Griffen-Foley, B., (ed), A
Companion to the Australian Media, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.
ISBN: 978-1-925003-05-5.
‘All the suffering on our backs: Rugby, religion and redemption amid the ruins’ in Communication
Issues in New Zealand, Unitec e-press, Auckland. ISBN: 978-1-927214-15-2.
http://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/index.php/communication-issues-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/

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2013
‘That some must suffer for the greater good: The Post Courier and the Bougainville Crisis,’ in Kaul,
C. (ed) The Media and the British Empire, Palgrave/Macmillan, London. (2nd
edition)
ISBN: 978-0-230-23154-2.
2011
‘Speaking the grassroots language: The impact of changes in spoken Tok Pisin on the Wantok
niuspepa,’ with Alphonse Aime et al in Papoutsaki, E, McManus, M. and Matbob, P. 2011.
Communication culture & society in PNG: yu tok wanem? Divine Word University Press,
Madang/Pacific Media Centre, Auckland. ISBN: 9781877314943.
2006
‘That some must suffer for the greater good: The Post Courier and the Bougainville Crisis,’ in Kaul,
C. (ed) The Media and the British Empire, Palgrave/Macmillan, London. (1st
edition) ISBN:
1403948828.
2004
“’Kill Vuia!’ he cried: The Rabaul Times and Socio-political Changes on the Gazelle Peninsula, 1957-
1959,” in Nolan, S. (ed), When Journalism Meets History 2003, Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, 2004. ISBN: 0864593066.
http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=818700584080430;res=IELHSS
2001
'Sources of law for Pacific journalists,' in Robie, D., (ed) Pacific Journalism, USP/UNESCO, Suva,
Fiji.
ISBN: 9820103851
1991
'Up the Time Line: A suggestion for the possible use of the study of the alternative worlds sub-
genre of science fiction as a means of provoking speculation about the role of science, philosophy
and literature in the development of our world,' in Communication Australia: A Search for
meaning in Changing Times, Griffith Publications/ACA, Sydney/ACT.
ISBN: 0646098896.
 Conference proceedings
2000
'Bonzer blokes and monkeys' bums: British media coverage of the Australian republican
referendum,' in Holmes, Harte et al (eds) The First Draft: How Journalism Frames and Narrates
History, City University, London.

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1998
'I cannot photograph the Adi: Self regulation and social control in a hierarchical island society,' in
Allen, Holmes et al (eds) Self Regulation in the Media, City University, London.
1996
'Designing a journalism course for the South Pacific' in Beyond 2000: Changing Directions in
Journalism Education, Canterbury University, Christchurch.
1993
'Wantok Niuspepa: Giving the People a Voice' in New Views on the News, University of Newcastle
Press, Newcastle.
 Course texts
2000
Cass, P., Leary, I., Robie, D., Media Law and Ethics: A Pacific Reader, University of the South Pacific,
Suva.
1993
Griffin, G., Huf, L. Cass, P., Master of Science Communication, Department of External and
Continuing Education, Central Queensland University.
1992
Cass, L., Cass, P., Grammar for Journalism Students, Central Queensland University.
1988
Cass, P., O’Connor, G., Principles of Journalism, Department of External and Continuing Education,
Central Queensland University.
 Journal articles
2016
‘A foreign flower no more: Tongan diasporic media and the 2014 election in Pacific Journalism
Review, 22:I.
2015
Review of Kaul, C., Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience in Pacific Journalism
Review, XXI:1.

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Review of Harvey, D., Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism in Pacific Journalism
Review, XXI:1.
Review of Perrin, D., American Democracy in Pacific Journalism Review, XXI:1.
Review of Perez-Garcia. N., Vicarious Consumers in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies,
XVII:1..
Review of Tow, Walton et al, New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific in New
Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, XVII:1.
2014
Review of Hager, N., Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political
environment in Pacific Journalism Review, XX:2.
Review of Bahadar, Kemp et al, Politics and the Media, in Pacific Journalism Review, XX:2.
Review of Kolig, E., Conservative Islam in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, XVI:1.
Review of Molland, S., The Perfect Business: Anti-trafficking and the Sex Trade along the
Mekong in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, XVI:1.
2013
Review of Rickets, M. (ed) Australian Journalism Today, in Pacific Journalism Review, XIX:2.
2012
Review of Freedman, D., and Thussu, D., Media and Terrorism, in Pacific Journalism Review,
XVIII:2.
2011
‘Teacher ! Teacher!’ Pacific Journalism Review, XVII:2
‘Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok niuspepa,’ Pacific Journalism Review, XVII:1.
Review of Yumi Piksa (DVD). Pacific Journalism Review, XVII:1.
‘The Infallible Engine: Indigenous perceptions of Europeans in German New Guinea through the
missionary press,’ in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Studies, XIV, May 2011.
‘Piksa i go we?,’ in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Studies, XIV, May 2011.
2008
‘The Never-ending Story: Palestine, Israel and The West Wing,’ in Journal of Arab and Muslim
Media Research, 1:1.

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2006
‘A dozen Danish cartoons and the wrath of the Muslim world,’ in Pacific Journalism Review,
12:1.
Review of Hugh Miles’ Al Jazeera: How Arab TV Challenged the World and Mohammed
Zayani’s The Al Jazeera Phenomenon in Pacific Journalism Review, 12:1.
2004
‘Media ownership in the Pacific: Inherited colonial model, but remarkably diverse,’ in Pacific
Journalism Review, 10:2.
2002
‘Baptism of fire: How USP journalism students covered the Speight coup,’ in The Round Table: The
Commonwealth Journal of International Relations, No. 366.
2001
'Yu mas kamap wan nesen: The role of mainstream churches in promoting Tok Pisin literacy in
Papua New Guinea,' in Paideuma, Frobenius Institute/Goethe University, No. 46.
2000
'Lotu or nation? Tok Pisin and Tok Ples as languages of identification in Papua New Guinea,' in
Media Development, World Association for Christian Communication.
'Not in a Pakeha court: Kastom and law for Pacific journalists,' in Pacific Journalism Review, 7:1.
1999
Review of Philip Knightley's A Hack's Progress for Pacific Journalism Review, 6:1
'Tuning into the Coconut Wireless,' in British Journalism Review, 10:4.
1998
'The Early Press in the Pacific,' in Pacific Journalism Review, 5:1.
1995
'Dilemma for Fiji Media and the Constitution,' in Pacific Journalism Review, 3:1.
1993
'Mission resurrects PNG Newspaper,' in Australian Journalism Review, 15:2.

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1992
'The Apostleship of the Press: The origins of the missionary press in New Guinea,' in The
Melanesian Journal of Theology, 8:2.
'Covering the crisis: A comparison of the coverage of the Bougainville crisis by the Australian and
the Times of Papua New Guinea,' in Australian Journalism Review, 14:2.
1991
'Australia Invaded: A brief history of Apocalyptic Writing in Australian Science Fiction,' Accepted
for publication by Australian Defence Force Journal.
'New Guinea's First Newspapers,' in Australian Journalism Review, 13:2.
1990
'Desktop Publishing and the Future of the Newspaper Industry,' in Media Information Australia,
No. 56.
 Electronic publications
2002
‘Newspaper archiving in the United Arab Emirates’ in E-journalist, hosted by Central Queensland
University at
http://www.ejournalism.au.com/ejournalist/v1n2.html
1999
'The origins of Wansolwara: A personal note,' hosted by the University of the South Pacific at
http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/docs/taveta/cass.html
1998
'The infallible engine: Indigenous perceptions of Europeans in German New Guinea through the
missionary press,' Hosted by Westminster University at
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/media/hist98/cass.html
 Other publications
2003
During 2003 I worked with Dean Janet Keefer as editor of Gulf Media Review, a one–off digital
publication highlighting media research by Zayed University faculty and including invited material
by academics at other institutions. I was responsible for editing copy and preparing it for
publication.
In January 2003 I worked with Professor Badran Badran on Earth Scream, a bilingual Arabic-
English environmental newspaper written by NGOs who attended a workshop on news writing

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organised by the College of Media and Communication Sciences on Zayed University’s Dubai
campus.
2002
During 2002 I worked with a group of students in the print production class to prepare a pilot
issue of Al Miror/The Mirror, a bilingual Arabic-English newspaper for the Abu Dhabi campus.
2000-2001
I redesigned Focus, the newsletter of the Emirates Natural History Group in Abu Dhabi, turning it
from a stapled black and white typed news sheet into an eight pager full colour publication. I
subbed the copy and drew line illustrations.
2000
In November 2000 I supervised the production of a 16 page full colour brochure marking the UAE’s
national day by media and communications students at Zayed University’s Abu Dhabi campus.
During this year I wrote a number of news items and commentaries for the international section
of the Times Higher Education Supplement and the Times Educational Supplement.
1996
Film reviews for The Review, Fiji.
Articles on Pacific culture and history for Merian, Austria.
1995
During October I produced a newsletter for Greenpeace Fiji issued as part of an information pack
for the South Pacific Forum leaders' meeting in Papua New Guinea.
1994
I took a sabbatical from CQU and worked as chief sub-editor for the Times of PNG in Port Moresby,
designing the layout, copy editing and supervising the flow of pages. I was asked to bring the new
Apple editing suite on-line and teach the other sub-editors how to use it. I worked closely with
the journalists covering the peace talks on Bougainville and started an education supplement for
the Times. I was one of the first journalists to enter Rabaul after it was devastated by a volcanic
explosion in 1994.
1992-94
I acted as chief sub-editor, subbing copy, designing advertising and laying pages for The Central
Queensland Journal of Regional Development, a glossy quarterly magazine produced by Central
Queensland University in association with the regional trade promotion body.

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1992
I wrote a number of items for the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin on historical/defence matters.
1991-92
I acted as editorial adviser of a student team producing The Anglican Gazette, a monthly
newspaper circulating in the church's Central Queensland diocese.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS:
2016
July 13: The Ghost of Felix Culpa. Paper accepted for July 13 conference on journalism education
in the Pacific in advance of the World Journalism Education Congress conference at AUT,
Auckland.
2015
June 25: ‘A foreign flower no more: Tongan diasporic media and the 2014 election.’ Paper
presented to the European Society for Oceanists’ conference, Brussells.
2014
November 28: ‘Media and Democracy in the Pacific.’ Presentation at Auckland Central Library as
part of parallel session with Pacific Journalism Review 20th
anniversary conference, Auckland
University of Technology.
September 19: (With Dr Jack Ford) ‘Keto dogs! The representation of Australians and New
Zealanders in Commando comics.’ Paper delivered to the Media, War and Memory conference,
Auckland University of Technology.
2013
November 25-26: “A fine fellow and a great sport”: Count von Luckner and the New Zealand press.
Australian Media Traditions conference, Brisbane.
2012
October 18-19. ‘Irreverent, occasionally tendentious and eagerly read: Early Melanesian
newspapers and political consciousness.’ A paper presented to the Democracy in the Pacific
conference, Canterbury University, Christchurch.
September 13. ‘Bung wantaim: Wantok and the path to independence 1970-75.’ A paper
presented to the Journalism, Media and Democracy conference, Auckland University of
Technology.

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2011
November 7-10. ‘From Nizwa to New Zealand: Many questions and some lessons from AUT’s
involvement in the Omani higher education sector.’ A paper presented to the London
International Conference on Education, UK.
November 4-6. ‘Earthquakes and All Blacks: Reporting natural disasters through a New Zealand
sporting icon.’ A paper presented to the Media Asia conference, Osaka.
September 27. ‘The Infallible Engine: Indigenous perceptions of Europeans in German New
Guinea through the missionary press.’ Presentation to the Auckland Goethe Society.
July 28. ‘Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok niuspepa.’ Presentation to research seminar, Pacific Media
Centre, Auckland University of Technology.
2010
November: ‘Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok niuspepa.’ A paper presented to the Headliners media
biography conference, Sydney.
November: ‘Teacher! Teacher! I want ‘A’ teacher!’ A paper presented to the Journalism Education
Association conference, Sydney.
2009
November: 'The Year Everything Changed: The Post-Courier and Papua New Guinea in 1969.'
Paper accepted for Australian Media Traditions conference, Sydney.
2007
October: Panellist, ‘Press freedom in the Middle East,’ Arab-US Association of Communication
Educators (AUSACE) conference, Dubai.
February: ‘The never-ending story: Palestine, Israel and The West Wing.’ A paper presented to the
CAMMRO conference on media representations of the Palestine-Israeli conflict at King’s College,
London.
2006
December: ‘The Pope, the Prophet and the Internet.’ A paper presented to the joint
Australian/New Zealand Journalism Education Association conference, Auckland.
2005
November: ‘Not Waigani’s way: Talking to people the Wantok way.’ A paper presented to the
Australian Media Traditions conference, Canberra.

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2004
November: (with Professor Jack Barwind) ‘Hell Rains Down: A report on a quantitative analysis of
how American and Arab newspapers covered the second intafada and the invasion of Iraq.’ A
paper presented to the AUSACE conference, Cairo.
Panellist, ‘Journalism ethics and change after 9/11,’ AUSACE conference, Cairo.
2003
November: ‘ “Kill Vuia! he cried”: The Rabaul Times and political developments on the Gazelle
Peninsula 1957-59.’ A paper presented to the Australian Media Traditions conference,
Melbourne.
October: ‘Extremist Arabs, exasperating Indians and English alcoholics: The West Wing vs the
World.’ A paper presented to the Arab-US Association of Communication Educators (AUSACE)
conference Dubai.
October: (with Young, B. and Dyck, M.,) Paper on ZU Radio intranet broadcasting accepted for
Second Europe, Middle East and Africa ThinkPad University conference, Dubai.
2002
July: ‘Rod bilong kago, rod bilong nesen? Melanesian cargo cults as proto-nationalist movements.’
Paper presented to the European Society for Oceanists’ conference, Vienna.
April: (With Piecowye,J. and Jendli, A.,) ‘Using the media in the classroom.’ Paper presented at
international conference on quality in education, Dubai.
2001
June: ‘Newspaper archiving in the United Arab Emirates.’ Paper presented to the Australian Media
Traditions conference, Yeppoon.
2000
May: 'Bonzer blokes and monkeys' bums: British media coverage of the Australian republican
referendum.' Paper presented to the Association for Journalism Education conference, London.
1999
July: 'Church papers preserve indigenous languages.' Paper presented to the Second International
Conference on Media and Religion, New College, Edinburgh.
June: 'The role of the mainstream churches in promoting Tok Pisin literacy in Papua New Guinea.'
Paper presented to the European Society for Oceanists’ conference, Leiden.

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1998
May: 'I cannot photograph the adi: Self regulation and social control in a hierarchical island
society.' Paper presented to the Association for Journalism Education conference, London.
July: 'The mighty engine: Missionary newspapers as a historical resource.' Paper presented to the
Media History conference, Westminster University, London.
1995
December: 'Designing a journalism course for the South Pacific.' Paper presented to the joint
Australian/New Zealand Journalism Education Association conference, Christchurch.
July: Panellist on university journalism education in the Pacific, Pacific Islands News Association
conference, Port Moresby.
1992
December: 'Wantok Niuspepa: Giving the people a Voice.' Paper presented to the Journalism
Education Association conference, Newcastle.
1991
June: 'Up the Time Line: A suggestion for the possible use of the study of the alternative worlds
sub-genre of science fiction as a means of provoking speculation about the role of science,
philosophy and literature in the development of our world.' Paper presented to the 13th
Australian Communications Association conference, Sydney.
July: 'New Guinea's First newspapers: The missionary press in German New Guinea 1886-1918.'
Paper delivered to the Journalism Education Association conference in Port Vila.
1990
June: 'Covering the crisis: A comparison of the coverage of the Bougainville crisis by the Australian
and the Times of Papua New Guinea.' Paper presented to the 12th Australian Communications
Association conference, Melbourne.
1989
June: 'Desktop Publishing and the Future of the Newspaper Industry.' Paper presented to the 11th
Australian Communications Association conference, Brisbane.
CONSULTANCIES, WORKSHOPS AND OTHER OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES
2016
Continue working as editorial adviser to Kaniva News, a widely read Auckland-based Tongan news
website.
Continue volunteer work with Catholic Peace and Justice Committee, Auckland.

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Continue working with the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland as a volunteer in
the aviation collection.
2015
Continue working as editorial adviser to Kaniva News, a widely read Auckland-based Tongan news
website. Apart from allowing me to practice my own writing and sub-editing skills, this experience
has informed the teaching of writing for the web in the News Writing class. It also led directly to
the conference paper on the Tongan diasporic media being presented in Brussells.
Continue volunteer work with Catholic Peace and Justice Committee, Auckland. This year I co-
ordinated a project on how New Zealand will deal with climate change refugees.
Continue working with the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland as a volunteer in
the aviation collection. Work continues on the production of an expanded brochure.
2014
Invited by Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, to contribute a section on Papua New Guinea to an
EU-funded project, “Regimes of Ethnicity: A Global Database of Ethnic Demography and Survey of
State Policies on Ethnicity."
Editorial adviser to Kaniva News.
Volunteer work with Catholic Peace and Justice Committee. I attended a conference on global
and local poverty at the University of Otago on behalf of the committee. Information from the
conference was used in classes on the UN’s millennium goals and social contract theory in the
postgraduate and undergraduate international communication classes. Other work involved
planning a social development conference jointly organised by the Edmund Rice Centre and
Generation Zero; organising and presenting to a workshop on social justice issues for high school
students and working with the Nine is Mine literacy campaign in India.
Volunteer work as aviation collection guide for Auckland Museum of Transport and Technology.
Funding was approved for the production of a 28 page full colour brochure for the Sir Keith Park
aviation collection for which I am the lead writer.
2013
Volunteer work with Catholic Peace and Justice Committee. Work included a solidarity event with
Auckland’s Muslim community and other groups on the Syrian crisis and helping organise an event
for refugees.
Editorial adviser to Kaniva News, a popular online Tongan news site based in Auckland.

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2012
2010
July-August: I taught in the College of Applied science summer school in Nizwa.
2009
June-July: I taught in Zayed University’s English summer camp for boys on the Abu Dhabi campus.
April: I helped rewrite the UAE’s National Centre for Documentation and Research’s promotional
brochure.
February-March: I worked with the National Centre for Documentation and Research in Abu
Dhabi, editing English translations of Arabic papers delivered to a conference on UAE history.
I provided the narration for a student film about Sheikh Zayed the First, which won first place in
an Emirates-wide competition.
2008
September: I worked with a small group revising the Glasgow Museum’s catalogue description of
PNG artist Mathias Kauage’s painting Buka War.
June-July: I taught in Zayed University’s English summer camp for girls on the Abu Dhabi campus.
I used paintings from the visiting Picasso exhibition in Abu Dhabi as the basis for a creative writing
class. I also helped supervise a group of boys preparing for an IELTS exam at the British Council in
Abu Dhabi.
2007
June-July. I headed the team running Zayed University’s English language summer camp for boys
on Delma Island in the Arabian Gulf. I used the framework of an imaginary ‘Radio Delma’ for
which students wrote scripts and recorded news bulletins and a drama.
2006
January-April. Media 4 Youth programme. I helped deliver a series of workshops on newspaper
layout and design to students from the Al Ittihad Model School for Boys and the Al Qadissiyah
School for Girls in Abu Dhabi. The programme was sponsored by the satellite channel Infinity TV.
2005
I was involved in the design of a course for newsroom managers at Al Ittihad newspaper and a
project with Abu Dhabi Television on the pilot of a monthly programme for university students.
Unfortunately, both projects were cancelled due to a change in management.

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2004
I helped supervise the production of a CD Rom and packaging for the UAE’s Olympic Committee,
liaising with colleagues in Abu Dhabi and Canada and reporting to the head of the committee. The
CD Rom was distributed at the Athens Games and later at other major Arabic sporting events in
the Middle East and North Africa.
June-July. I taught in Zayed University’s summer camp, using exercises in layout and design to
encourage the students to use better English.
2003
June-July. I taught in the university’ English language summer camp.
2001
Guest lecturer to journalism students at the University of the South Pacific.
2000
External adviser for new journalism degree at Thames Valley University, London. I designed the
foundation writing module for Thames Valley’s journalism programme and acted as external
adviser for the internal and external validation committees for the degree.
Invited to join the editorial board of e-journal , produced by Central Queensland University.
Guest lecture to postgraduate history students at Newcastle University in the UK.
1999
External adviser on validation panel for the Southampton Institute's BA (Hons) in Journalism and
Politics.
Discussions with the Middlesbrough Racial Harassment Community Link Group on producing a
newsletter. The Link Group was an NGO which provided advice to members of ethnic
communities about where to go if they experience racial harassment. The newsletter was
intended to promote their activities within the community.
Workshop for Easterside Community Newspaper Group. The group produced an A4 newspaper
for distribution within an extremely disadvantaged area of Middlesbrough.
Workshops in news writing for after-school group at Nunthorpe High School. The after school
group was aimed at giving brighter students selected from secondary schools in the area a chance
to study extra subjects outside school hours.
1995-97
Member, advisory group for the programme for journalism training in the Pacific funded by
Ausaid, the Australian government's international aid agency. The group met twice a year to

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assess applications for funding from regional bodies and to co-ordinate the allocation of resources
for in-country workshops and training sessions.
1994
Workshop for journalists of The Eastern Star, in Alotau, Papua New Guinea. I also acted as chief
sub and helped produce an issue of the paper.
Workshop for journalists at The Times of PNG and Wantok, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. I
was also asked to make recommendations for improving layout in the Times and other
newspapers produced by Word Publications.
1993
Stringers' workshop for the Times of PNG and Wantok in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. This
was a refresher course for the papers' correspondents from different parts of the country.
1992
Guest lecturer in journalism course, University of Papua New Guinea.

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REFEREES (in alphabetical order)
Professor Badran Badran
College of Communications and Media Science,
Zayed University, Dubai ,
United Arab Emirates.
Ph: +971+4+4021210
Fax: +971+4+4021016
e-mail: Badran.Badran@zu.ac.ae
Professor Lyall Crawford
China Hainan, dao Haikou City, Yan Jiang Wu Xi Lu,
Wan Heng Hua Yuan, E2-901.
Mobile : 008615008044218
E-mail: lyall.crawford@gmail.com
Emeritus Professor Denis Cryle, School of Contemporary Communication,
Central Queensland University,
Rockhampton ,
Australia.
Ph: +61+749232100
Fax: +61+749239836
email: d.cryle@cqu.edu.au
Dr Janet Keefer
565 Fearrington Post (Postal address)
565 Weathersfield (Delivery address)
Pittsboro, NC 27312
United States of America
Telephone: 919-533-6200 (H); 919-742-0670
e-mail: Janetkeefer@me.com
Professor David Robie,
Auckland University of Technology,
New Zealand.
Ph: +64+99219999
Fax: +64+99219987
e-mail: david.robie@aut.ac.nz
Lynne Trenwith
Communications academic and consultant
Auckland
Mobile: 0210483731
Home phone: + 64 + (09) 520 3900
Email: Ltrenwith@unitec.ac.nz / Lynne@qsd.co.nz
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