The Asia Pacific Journalism Centre is supporting an Online Media and Development Advisor position in Timor Leste. The candidate will work with the Assosiasaun Radio Komunidade Timor Leste (ARKTL) to improve sustainability and community engagement.

A group of 11 journalists from southwest Pacific countries have met Australian politicians and business leaders as part of a professional development program on news media and the role of women in the economy.

A group of 11 journalists from southwest Pacific countries will meet Australian politicians and business leaders as part of a professional development program on news media and the role of women in the economy.

It can be easy to place too much emphasis on the big picture when it comes to the commercial and political ties between Australia and China. Relations, so enormous in macro economic terms, still come back to individuals. One can’t overlook the importance of travel and education.

What defines the Asian century and Australia’s role in it? How can Australia’s education sector prepare for a future more strongly connected with other countries in the region? APJC director John Wallace discusses the challenges of building these relationships and the role the news media can play.

Senior media professionals from Pacific countries have agreed to improve the coverage of women in business news reporting during talks hosted by the Asian Development Bank.

Strategies for boosting news coverage of the role of women in the economy will be explored in an upcoming APJC program for 12 Pacific journalists. Funded by Australian Aid, the program recognises the role news media can play in helping Pacific women gain access to economic and leadership opportunities.

Ben Doherty won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism in 2013 for a series of articles exposing exploitation in the Bangladeshi garment industry making clothes for Australia. He explains how the APJC fellowship he undertook to Indonesia and East Timor in 2008 kick-started his career as a foreign correspondent.

Tony Abbott wants to see cranes standing above the cities of Australia. First he’ll have to come to western China and the ancient city of Chongqing because that’s where it appears almost all the world’s cranes are being used.

My fellow Austraining International volunteer, Claudia Santangelo, and I are now coming into our fifth month working with the Association of Community Radio Stations in Timor-Leste (ARKTL) to support community radio stations here.