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Journalism scholarships awarded
Published by the Communications and Development Department
5 December 2002
Glen Scanlon, a reporter with the Dominion Post, in Wellington, and formerly of the Christchurch Press, and Tama Moiser, a reporter with TV3 in Christchurch, have been awarded the 2003 University of Canterbury Robert Bell Travelling Scholarships.
The scholarships are open to people working in the media who have a Diploma in Journalism from Canterbury. Each is worth $10,000 to enable the awardee to travel overseas to undertake a specific research project.
Ms Moiser, who has been with TV3 since completing the diploma in 2000, did a BA in French at Victoria University of Wellington. She intends taking six weeks to visit the European headquarters of five aid agencies, such as the Red Cross and Oxfam to look at the strategies they use to get their messages across in the media.
Glen Scanlon, originally from Westport and ex Buller High School, has a BA in History (first class honours) from Canterbury. He did the Diploma in Journalism in 1998 and started at Wellington’s The Dominion in December that year. In 2000 he joined the Christchurch Press, then returned to the Dominion last year. He has just been appointed the Waikato Times' chief reporter, to start next month. Journalism is a strong theme in Mr Scanlon’s family: his mother is a journalist on the West Coast and has in the past worked for RNZ, and his twin brother, Sean, is currently a journalist at NZPA and has worked at the Evening Post and The Press.
Mr Scanlon plans to use the scholarship to fund a month-long trip to Fiji, Tonga and Samoa to study how journalists work in the islands, the issues and difficulties they face and what they think of the coverage the Pacific Islands receives in New Zealand.
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