SUVA (PINA) — Fiji news media leaders have backed Fiji Institute of Technology becoming the center for the industry’s training in Fiji.
The institute will from early next year begin offering courses in journalism, public relations, advertising/marketing, radio, video, and TV production, photography and multi-media.
Russell Hunter, editor-in-chief of the region’s biggest daily newspaper, The Fiji Times, set the tone at a Fiji National Commission for UNESCO media symposium in Suva when he said:
“Most people here will know that a joint approach by PINA and The Media Council was made to the Fiji Institute of Technology to establish a vocational course in journalism.”
Such a course would have the support of the “overwhelming majority” of editors and publishers, Hunter said as he delivered the day-long national symposium’s opening paper.
