Newswire.co.nz: Latest Headlines 3 August 2009

Newswire.co.nz: Latest Headlines 3 August 2009

Stories making the running this week at www.newswire.co.nz, the website of Whitireia Journalism School.

THE COSTS OF CARE
One child, one school, $100,000… Blair Stewart reports on the complexity of catering for a child with special needs at a Hutt Valley school.
http://bit.ly/2gZeD

MALL’S BACH WORSE THAN ITS BITE?
Bach and Barry Manilow tunes annoy the heck out of young people – and that’s the point at Westfield Queensgate and the central Lower Hutt bus stops. Kylie Klein-Nixon talks to some of those whom the piped music is designed to deter.
http://bit.ly/TVW3Y

STEPHENSON’S REPORTAGE GETS NOD
Freelance journalist Jon Stephenson has produced ground-breaking work at great personal cost, says the Orangi Kaupapa Trust. Penelope Scott reports on the trust’s award to the Auckland-based foreign correspondent.
http://bit.ly/wOCrX

MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Janice Ikiua captures video footage of Te Kura Kaupapa Mapori o Nga Mokopuna, performing in Manners Mall during Maori Language Week.
http://bit.ly/xDYCa

WHAT, NO GANGRENE?
There’s little shock value in some of the almost-comical warning graphics now decorating cigarette packets, smokers tell Daniel Simmons Ritchie.
http://bit.ly/wf498

BIG SIX QUIT TERTIARY ALLIANCE
Manukau, Waikato, Wellington and Christchurch institutes of technology, Otago Polytechnic and Unitec are withdrawing from their national organisation, creating a metro/regional divide. Lee Stace reports.
http://bit.ly/1ou0pP

FREYBERG POOL: FACELIFT OR FOLLY?
Wellington City Council spent $10,322 on a bright new look for the exterior of the Freyberg Pool and Fitness Centre. Money well spent? Jonathan Tringham asks around.
http://bit.ly/cZduF

All stories are produced by journalism students studying toward the National Diploma in Journalism (Multi-media) at Whitireia Community Polytechnic. NewsWire is published by Jim Tucker, programme leader.

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