jason brown curriculum veritas 2011

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2011 | CURRICULUM VERITAS | JASON BROWN 

LAST NAME:
Brown

MIDDLE NAMES:
(none)


FIRST NAME:
Jason

CITIZENSHIP / NATIONALITY
Australian / Cook Islands Permanent Resident (1985)


DATE OF BIRTH
15th September 1965, St. Leonards, Sydney


INTERESTS
Walking, cycling, photography


CONTACT

e-mail: avaiki@facebook.com 

postal: 9/116 Wellington Street

Freeman's Bay

Auckland 1011
Aotearoa, New Zealand

HEALTH

Tinnitus (google results).




ESTIMATED TOTAL PERSONAL DEBTS
US$120,000 as at 15 September 2011


PERSONAL CREDIT RATING
Bad


PERSONAL DEBT BY COUNTRY
Cook Islands
New Zealand


PERSONAL STATUS
Divorced

  

CAREER LOWLIGHTS *

1982: First job threats from cabinet ministers
1983: Off work, glandular fever 

1986: Sacked by Sir Thomas Davis administration for "mischevious" Stories
1988: Failure of bid for privatisation of Cook Islands News
1989: Public relations for Cook Islands Government

1990: Resign from government over censorship

1993: Contempt of Cook Islands Parliament for cartoon
1994: Lots of promises, but few funders for Cook Islands Press
1995: Death threat from shipping owner

1996: Develop tinnitus, 24/7

1997: Refused NZAID funding
1998: Commercial failure of Cook Islands Press
1999: failure of Cook Islands Media Council

2000: Not selected for Olympics media

2001: Banned from Cook Islands Parliament

2004: Declare crisis in Cook Islands media

2005: NZAID: "Your name is mud with New Zealand."

2006: Migrate for health reasons, Auckland

2007: Banned from PINA membership

2008: Banned from WIBT, Auckland, withdraw from AUT PIMA scholarship

2009: Declare crisis in New Zealand media

2010: Banned from Pacific WAVE meeting, at WPFD, Brisbane

2011: Declare GJC, Global Journalism Crisis

* Please note that some linked documents may need searching to find relevant reference. 



CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

1982: First news story, on impacts of Space Invader games on youth, CINews

1985: Editor, Mini South Pacific Games insert, Rarotonga
1986: Sacked by Sir Thomas Davis administration for "naughty" stories
1988: Te Kuki Airani; campaign newspaper, exposes mafia links
1990: Liasion, Media and Government Relations, Forum, Rarotonga
1991: Exclusive expose Avaiki Air crash, CITV
1992: Advocate for Maori-first news, Te Rongo Veka, CITV
1994: Founding member Cook Islands Journalists Association, code of ethics
1995: Expose US$1.1 billion Letters of Guarantee, Cook Islands Press
1995: Leading role in public petition against Media Standards Bill
1996: Freedom of Information Award, PINA, Cook Islands Press
1996: Press Attache to Atlanta Olympics, team Cook Islands - Go Green!
1997: Exclusive coverage of Cyclone Martin, Manihiki, Cook Islands
1997: Founding role in Cook Islands Media Association 
1997: Expose constitutional amendment against permanent residents
1998: Cook Islands media only institution gaining public confidence

1999: Set up Avaiki Nius Agency

2001: Speaker lifts ban
2002: Information Assistant, Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation, Barcelona

2003: WWF photo contract
2004: Avaiki Nius Agency launches online.
2005: Tahiti by election, launch JPK investigation
2006: 'Malestreaming' intern, Pacific Women's Bureau, SPC
2006: Women in Politics, Rarotonga
2006: Sole Pacific Islands media contributor to aid review, Australia
2007: Australia aid strategy review ticks sustained public broadcasting
2008: Founding member Pacific Islands Journalism Online
2009: Inaugural meeting Pacific Freedom Forum, Samoa.
2010: Establish JICC, Journalism in Crisis Coalition

2011: Establish WJR, World Journalism Review 

CONFERENCES

1994: PINA Samoa
1998: PINA Tahiti
1999: PINA Fiji
2003: PINA Samoa
2006: PIMA New Zealand
2008: PIMA New Zealand
2009: PIMA New Zealand
2010: World Press Freedom Day, Australia

LINKS:

2006 Curriculum Vitae | Jason Brown 

Foreign aid in Pacific media education

Total Transparency Tools 

EARLIER VERSION

2008 Jason Brown Curriculum Veritas

UPDATED:
2011, Wednesday, 19 October 

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poker lord - not me!

PERSONAL STATEMENT

by jason brown, editor, avaiki nius agency

Engaged in a vanity search for an introductory letter, I discovered that I am, apparently, Poker Lord 76.

At least that's what it says in the top 50 or so Google hits under "cook islands" and "jason brown" much to my annoyance.

Friends will attest to many weaknesses, but gambling ain't one of 'em. Let me put this as plainly as I can: gambling bores me s***less.

WHAT I WOULD RATHER BE DOING

Rather than go and contribute hundreds of dollars to organised crime, or thousands if I really was a poker lord, what I would rather be doing is sitting at the casino bar, sinking shots and marveling at the tide of human emotion blundering past, a rich mix of misery speckled with utter elation.

In short, I don't gamble.

So how does my name get associated with a poker lord? Doth I protest too much? Am I lying?

HOW IT PROBABLY HAPPENED

No big deal, really, but it looks bad on your CV. Type in a search for "cook islands" and you'll get 47,600,000 hits on google - roughly 47 million of those will be utter crap, auto bots churning out pages with lists of countries on them.

Sadly, a search for "Jason Brown" only gets 352,000 hits, but at least I am in the top ten results, after a grid iron player, a country music singer, a Japanese language student, a listed fugitive on America's Most Wanted, a psychologist - yikes! - and, apparently, a member of a boy band called 5ive.

You could only believe that all these are the work of one person - like, me - if you read more conspiracy theories than I do. So, how a "poker lord" probably happens to end up in my search is that he is one of thousands of other fellas with the same name, who register on pages that carry lists of countries.

Unless there are some other Jason Browns hiding out there in the Cooks.

LINK

Not me:

poker_lord76 - Jason Brown - Poker Player