Authors and Corporations: | , |
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In: | Pacific Journalism Review, 22, 2016, 1, p. 167 |
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 167 |
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ISSN: |
1023-9499
2324-2035 |
DOI: | 10.24135/pjr.v22i1.18 |
published in: | Pacific Journalism Review |
Language: | Undetermined |
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Collection: | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>When government statements talk about a secret deal with a multinational consortium that will see more than A$250 million spent on a town with a population of around 1000 people, questions need to be asked. Basic maths equates the spend to around A$250,000 a person and yet many people in the town are unhappy about the whole deal. Tracking Onslow was a collaboration between a university and a local government that used journalism as a methodology to document and interrogate the interaction between Chevron, the state and local governments and the Onslow community over a three-year period. This article focuses on the production of the lead feature of the final edition. It presents the published article and a reflexive exegesis that uses Foucault’s ideas about power and knowledge to frame and evaluate the journalistic endeavour.</jats:p> |