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Chinese, Burmese journalists join AUT’s PMC
Chinese, Burmese journalists join AUT’s Pacific Media Centre
A young Burmese journalist and a Chinese cultural affairs editor have joined AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre this year.
Violet Cho, 25, an ethnic Karen reporter who writes for Irawaddy magazine in Thailand, is the first Asian journalist to come to New Zealand under the PMC’s inaugural Asian Journalism Fellowship sponsored by the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Wang Nan is an editor for the arts website of China Daily and is with the School of Communication Studies for a one-semester exchange visit. The China Daily hosts two AUT journalism students on internship each year, with travel sponsorship from the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Ms Cho, who fled Burma with her family to begin life in a Thai refugee camp in 1991, will study on the Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours) programme and be a resource journalist with the PMC for staff and students.
After getting involved in broadcasting through a community radio station set up by a Karen student group, Ms Cho also did some news reporting for the Burmese independent media agency Mizzima which is now based in New Delhi.
Since 2007, she has been working for Irrawaddy Publishing Group, which has a daily news website and a monthly glossy magazine.
“Studying journalism at AUT University will greatly help my work as a journalist. To produce critical media, I need a stronger academic background in media and a theoretical framework,” she says.
Beijing-born Ms Wang, 28, a cultural affairs editor on China Daily's culture website, also assists the chief editor.
"My job is to introduce China’s beautiful places which are worth a visit and to profile delicious Chinese food, people’s lives and many interesting things," she says.
For five years, graduate journalists from AUT have worked on three-month internships on the China Daily's websites and several have gone on to full time jobs with Chinese media or news organisations elsewhere in Asia.
Profiles are on the Pacific Media Centre blog:
Wang Nan or Violet Cho
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