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jason brown

 

curriculum vitae

 

Sunday, August 01, 2004, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

 

overview

 

I have worked within Cook Islands news media since 4 February 1982.

 

Most of my experience comes from the print sector, but I also worked in broadcasting, mainly television (CITV).

 

Over the last 20 years, I worked at all levels of the industry, from general reporter to publisher. I consider my professional strengths to be in writing, editing, design and photography, possibly in that order. Politics, economics, health and governance issues in all sectors of society form the basis for most of my stories.

 

I have also reported on development issues facing Maori in the Cook Islands and across the Pacific in Hawai’i, Tahiti and Aotearoa, for local news media as well as Radio New Zealand International, Agence France Presse, and others.

 

career highlights

 

aug 2004              Volunteer photographer, Calendar Girls Project, Cook Islands Breast Cancer Foundation.

jul 2004                Official Photographer for Tauranga Vananga, the Ministry of Cultural Development at Te Maeva Nui 2004, the 39th Constitution Celebration Cultural Competition.

dec 2002               Editor, Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation founding report. Volunteer / consultant for monthly PIAF bulletins.

jun 2002 Reporter, 14th International AIDS Conference, Barcelona,  Spain.

feb 2002 Chief Reporter, weekly Cook Islands Star. Stories lead to historic inquest into sudden hospital deaths.

nov 2000              Editor, Annual Report, Pacific Islands Business Trust, Auckland, New Zealand.

mar 2000              Reporter, Cook Islands News, story on corruption that lead to prosecution of Chief of Staff in the Office of the Prime Minister.

aug 1999              Reporter, Islands Business, Cook Islands general elections, cover story.

jan 1997               Publisher, Cook Islands Press, assisted with industry and public petition against proposed Media Standards Bill (withdrawn).

oct 1996                Publisher, Cook Islands Press, co-awardee (with then 126 year old Fiji Times) of the Pacific Islands News Association’s Freedom of Information Award.            

jul 1996 Press attachĂ©, Cook Islands squad,  Atlanta Olympic Games.

mar 1996              Publisher, Cook Islands Press, exposed constitutional amendment (withdrawn) that would have removed high court protection for permanent residents.

mar 1995              Publisher, Cook Islands Press, joint investigation with Television New Zealand on the us$1.1 billion Letters of Guarantee scam. Threatened with deportation by Prime Minister.

jul 1994 Reporter, CITV, Cook Islands general elections.

nov 1990 Best typist award, Pacific Islands Journalism Course.

feb 1989               Public Relations Officer, Government of the Cook Islands. Resigned after 10 months.

oct 1988                Publisher, Cook Islands Press election only special editions, Cook Islands general elections.

mar 1986              Sacked from state-owned Cook Islands News for “biting the hand that feeds you (Prime Minister Sir Thomas Davis KBE).” Offending story pointed out that Speech from the Throne to mark the ceremonial opening of Parliament was word-for-word the same from the previous year, including the fact that the “outer islands are on the verge of a huge agricultural expansion.”

Aug 1985             Editor, 16 page Sports Section, South Pacific Mini Games, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

jul 1983                Photographer for daily Cook Islands News coverage of Constitution Celebrations cultural competitions.

feb 1982               My first ever story was on Space Invader machines – are kids stealing money to play? Or are parents giving them money to stay away?

 

education, training, meetings

 

My journalistic education would have started much earlier, in the first year of the Pacific Islands Journalism Course in 1983, with the Cooks awarded the first island scholarship. However I missed out (and fair enough I felt) because I was a papa’a (white).

 

1981       High school drop-out.

1990       Pacific Island Journalism Course, Manukau Polytechnic, Aotearoa.

1992       Sub-editing workshop, SPC, Fiji.

1993       Pacific Journalists Association inaugural (and nearly only) meeting.

1994       Pacific Islands News Association AGM, Cooks delegate, Samoa.

1998       Pacific Islands News Association AGM, Cooks delegate, Tahiti.

1999       Pacific Islands News Association AGM, Cooks delegate, Fiji.

2000                       Strengthening National Media Associations conference, AUSaid, PINA, Fiji.

2003       Pacific Islands News Association AGM, Cooks delegate, Samoa.

 

interests

 

Art. Cycling.

 

personal

 

I have two beautiful children, Jim, 21 and Mikaera, 6. Separated and on even better terms with wife, Barbara.

 

/ends

 

 

 

 

transparency - reality tv - corporate reform

jacqui evans
eco-marine consultants
rarotonga

 
link for that industry article on the effects of transparency on commerce and capitalism.

corporates in effect no longer have to worry about being sued for negligence and conspiracy because all due diligence and proper process includes total transparency. potential litigation liability falls through the floor, insurance premiums plummet, agency gains instant and total public credibility, publicity and promotion is, literally, endless.

total transparency is not just a life-style option for has-been hacks on remote paradise islands but an economic efficiency outstripping any potential others on any world market.

our village ancestors knew everything that went on around them: our global descendants will too.

kia toa,

jason

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jason brown
avaiki nius agency
your world's most transparent company.
798 ara maire nui dr.
rarotonga
cook islands
+682 53905 mb
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
www.avaiki.nu

ps: note: just a reminder to talk about how to turn the reality tv model into a promotional vehicle for total transparency.

 



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transparency - reality tv - corporate reform

jacqui evans
eco-marine consultants
rarotonga

link for that industry article on the effects of transparency on commerce and capitalism.

corporates in effect no longer have to worry about being sued for negligence and conspiracy because all due diligence and proper process includes total transparency. potential litigation liability falls through the floor, insurance premiums plummet, agency gains instant and total public credibility, publicity and promotion is, literally, endless.

total transparency is not just a life-style option for has-been hacks on remote paradise islands but an economic efficiency outstripping any potential others on any world market.

our village ancestors knew everything that went on around them: our global descendants will too.

kia toa,

jason

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
jason brown
avaiki nius agency
your world's most transparent company.
798 ara maire nui dr.
rarotonga
cook islands
+682 53905 mb
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
www.avaiki.nu

ps: note: just a reminder to talk about how to turn the reality tv model into a promotional vehicle for total transparency.

 



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Posted by avaiki to :: avaiki nius archive at 5/17/2005 05:05:03 PM

transparency - reality tv - corporate reform

jacqui evans
eco-marine consultants
rarotonga

link for that industry article on the effects of transparency on commerce and capitalism.

corporates in effect no longer have to worry about being sued for negligence and conspiracy because all due diligence and proper process includes total transparency. potential litigation liability falls through the floor, insurance premiums plummet, agency gains instant and total public credibility, publicity and promotion is, literally, endless.

total transparency is not just a life-style option for has-been hacks on remote paradise islands but an economic efficiency outstripping any potential others on any world market.

our village ancestors knew everything that went on around them: our global descendants will too.

kia toa,

jason

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
jason brown
avaiki nius agency
your world's most transparent company.
798 ara maire nui dr.
rarotonga
cook islands
+682 53905 mb
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
www.avaiki.nu

ps: note: just a reminder to talk about how to turn the reality tv model into a promotional vehicle for total transparency.

 

letter about 1957 hydrogen bomb tests

On This Day

BBC News

onthisday@bbc.co.uk

 

Kia orana, greetings,

 

Following is verbatim from a copy of a letter sent to the Home Office Secretary on 16 September 1996 and given to me three weeks ago as a journalist working here since arriving as a child in 1977 and working here since 1982.

 

I have not done anything with the letter until this morning when I saw your daily news email, which I signed up to less than three weeks ago, and the link to the 1957 hydrogen bomb blast.

 

The letter is signed by a Cook Islands woman, Ms. Tauariki Greig, whose partner, Mr. Wayne Meyer has apparently been lobbying on her behalf for many years. There is some slight confusion over dates, with some material mentioning 1956 and others 1958. I have not checked accuracy of the material but they have a great many more documents including correspondence of record to and from authorities in New Zealand and the UK.

 

My impression is that Mr. Meyer has drafted the following letter, including a quote from Ms. Greig about witnessing the actual test as a young child, then given the letter to her for approval and signing. In recent years, Ms. Greig has been diagnosed with, if I am not mistaken, a potentially terminal illness of some sort. Mr. Meyer claims to have had DNA testing done in New Zealand and that Ms. Greig is suffering genetic mutation. He says doctors are not able to exactly diagnose what Ms. Greig is suffering from and that this is in common with a wide range of symptoms reported by people in test zones in their fifties, sixties and seventies, such as Bikini Atoll.

 

For confirmation and further information you can contact them both directly at (country code)+682 (local 5-digit only number) …..

 

I am most happy to assist in any way further including digital photos of original artworks by Mr. Meyer depicting the event or typing in letters or arranging for them to be faxed.

 

Ms Greig’s letter as follows:

 

The Secretary

Home Office

London

ENGLAND

 

re: THE GREIG FAMILY

 

Dear Sir,

 

I write to you on behalf of our descendants of our Great Grandfather William Greig the owner of Xmas Island and Fanning Island in the Pacific Ocean.

 

Following the Second World War the English Government obtained a lease over Xmas Island, and subsequently exploded a Hydrogen Bomb above the atoll.

 

Prior to the explosion in 1956 the families living on Xmas Island were relocated to the Northern Cook Islands.

 

During a recent family reunion in Tahiti comprehensive research uncovered some alarming discrepancies and events.

 

I wish to place these before you in the hope that the British Government can bring about a satisfactory solution.

 

Following the Hydrogen Bomb explosion on Xmas Island, William Greigs son’s office on Gilbert Island was broken into and the British Lease Document over Xmas Island was stolen. This lease document, evidently covered the financial compensation and rental payments to William Greig.

 

Until now, the Greig family have been unable to untangle this problem despite a previous approach to the British Government.

 

I recall the events at the time of the Hydrogen Bomb blast.

 

“I was 10 years old, living on Rakahanga when the Royal Navy and the new Zealand Navy visited our atoll to advise us that they were going to explode an atmospheric Hydrogen Bomb over Xmas Island. Part of the British Protectorate north of Rakahanga, we were told not to drink any water from our wells or roof tanks nor to eat any vegetation, crops or fish for at least three months. I cannot remember any food and water supplies being brought to Rakahanga for our survival following the ‘Blast’.”

 

Page 2 of Ms. Tauariki Greig letter 16 sep 1996

 

“I was playing hide and seek with my family; my father had hoisted me onto his shoulders to help me hide in a tree. It was a beautiful sunny clear day and I will never forget the flash of light brighter than the sun. Shortly after the ground shook. We didn’t know what was going to happen. That evening the whole sky turned red it stayed like that for about a week. A few A few days after the blast our lagoon changed colour and all of the fish died floated to the surface. Our parents wouldn’t let us eat the fish so the men buried them.”

 

“The aircraft carrier ‘Warrior’ never came back so we had to live on coconuts for three or four months.”

 

In this day and age no Government would be allowed to carry out such an act of destruction and walk away from their responsibilities.

 

At present in New Zealand compensation is being paid to sailors and families of the crews made to stand on the deck of the ships in boiler suits and dark glasses to witness the Hydrogen Bomb Blast.

 

This publicity has strengthened our determination to deal with and bring about an equitable solution to the dislocation suffered by our families.

 

A copy of this letter will be sent to the Prime Minister of New Zealand so that he may assist both ourselves and the British Government resolve this problem.

 

In the meantime could the Home Office please assist by forwarding a copy of the British Lease over Xmas Island and the terms of compensation payable to William Greig.

 

Also could your department advise us of payments made cheques drawn and presented in consideration of the lease.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Tauariki Greig.

 

ENDS

 

Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance. And, while I am at it, I wish BBC staff all the best in their fight against cutbacks.

 

Meitaki maata, many thanks,

 

jason

 

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jason brown

avaiki nius agency

798 ara maire nui dr.

rarotonga

cook islands

+682 53905 mb

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www.avaiki.nu