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Personal
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Alan Samson's
responsibilities lie mainly with the internal Graduate Diploma in
Journalism and various extramural and internal papers within the Graduate
Diploma in Applied Journalism, also offered as part of the Bachelor of
Communications. He teaches the fledgling Science and Environment
Jornalism paper (extramural only); Introduction to Journalism
(internal and extramural); and Media Law and Ethics (internal and
extramural).
For nearly 20 years Alan
was a senior reporter at The Dominion newspaper, now the Dominion Post. He
was also for a time the paper's deputy chief reporter and served long
stints reporting in health, environment and general. Stories he covered for
the newspaper included the Fiji coup, the Aramoana tragedy, the
long-running Peter Ellis child molestation case, and the Lord of the Rings'
phenomenon. He was also the only print journalist to cover the
groundbreaking Royal Commission on Genetic Modification.
In an earlier life he
worked for the Christchurch Press, the New Zealand Press Association, as
well as editing two management magazines in London. He is a several-times
Qantas winner and finalist, including for crime and justice feature writing
and science news reporting, three-times a Crown Research Institute's
science writer winner, and a past winner of the NZ Skeptics critical
reporting award. He is currently a sitting member of the New Zealand Press
Council.
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