Public interest journalism and regional interests: Implications for the Pacific and Australian aid

This submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Future of Public Interest Journalism is based on our centre’s experience as researchers and analysts in the Pacific region, and as communications and policy professionals engaging with the media. The submission focuses on the following three key areas: the importance of public interest journalism to the Pacific region and Australia’s engagement with it; the importance of public interest journalism to policy debates, drawing on the example of our own field of aid policy; and the role that universities and centres such as ours now play in attempting to fill the gap in coverage on issues of public importance.