Tag Archives: #Sam Koim

The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim

Posted on by — 24 Comments ↓

By PNG Echo Then… Sam Koim started his legal career, at the end of 2008, as an employed lawyer at the Office of the Solicitor General. He rose quickly (within three years) to national – even international – prominence. Koim owes his meteoric rise, at least the start of it, to his friendship with Sam Basil. Indeed it was Basil, then Minister for National Planning in the O’Neill/Namah government, who, in 2011, put in a submission to the NEC for the establishment of Task Force Sweep (TFS) with Koim at the helm. At the time, Koim had only two years Continue reading The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim→

Share Button

Debunking the romanticism of investigative journalism

Posted on by — 4 Comments ↓

By PNG Echo. Investigative journalism is often romantically portrayed as journalism in its most altruistic form: media fulfilling its ‘fourth estate’ function of public ‘watchdog.’ It does this by drawing attention to failures within society’s system of regulation and to the ways in which those systems can be circumvented by the rich, the powerful and the corrupt. (2008, de Burgh P.3) Beattie and Beal talk of the ‘fourth estate’ as the public interest guardians of truth. (2007, Beattie and Beal p.37) and in investigative mode the media has had a number of notable successes in forcing recognition of wrongs and Continue reading Debunking the romanticism of investigative journalism→

Share Button