SUVA (PINA) — Executives from smaller Pacific islands newspapers are getting help developing their newspapers at a workshop hosted by one of the region’s biggest papers.
The five-day Developing Newspapers in Small Pacific Island States workshop is a result of cooperation between the Commonwealth Press Union and Pacific Islands News Association.
It is being hosted by the Fiji Times, whose managing director, Tony Yianni, heads the PINA Newspaper Industry Group.
Participants come from PINA member newspapers in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.
The trainers are CPU consultant Jim Irvine, a former New Zealand daily and community newspaper executive, Fiji Times editor-in-chief Russell Hunter and editor Samisoni Kakaivalu.
Irvine has previously run a series of joint CPU/PINA workshops. Hunter has run previous PINA sub-regional developing newspaper management workshops in Apia and Honiara.
