Open AccessThe origins of journalism education at UPNG
Author(s) -
Peter Henshall
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v4i1.625
Subject(s) - journalism , project commissioning , commission , new guinea , publishing , government (linguistics) , principal (computer security) , political science , media studies , broadcasting (networking) , period (music) , public administration , public relations , sociology , law , art , computer network , linguistics , ethnology , philosophy , computer science , operating system , aesthetics
Journalism education training was started at the University of PNG at the beginning of 1975, when the New Zealand Government agreed to fund a one-year Diploma in Journalism for an initial two-year period. Before this, the few national journalists employed in Papua New Guinea had been trained in-house by the two-principal employers of the time— the Office of Information and the National Broadcasting Commission.