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Kalafi Moala
Kalafi Moala is a Tongan journalist who founded the ''Times of Tonga'', and was later jailed by the Tongan government for contempt of parliament. He later worked for Radio New Zealand and founded an investigative journalism website. Biography Before becoming a journalist, Moala worked as a Christian missionary in Hawaii, Hong Kong, Japan and Papua New Guinea. In 1989, Moala founded the ''Times of Tonga'', an independent newspaper, becoming its majority shareholder and editor-in-chief. In 1996, the Legislative Assembly of Tonga sentenced him and his deputy editor-in-chief to one month in prison for contempt of parliament, after the ''Times of Tonga'' published the text of a no confidence motion against justice minister Tevita Poasi Tupou. ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, a pro-democracy politician who proposed the motion and delivered its text to the paper, was also given the same sentence. Amnesty International called for their release, describing them as prisoners of conscience. While in p ...
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A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertising, or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, Editorial board, editors, Editorial board, editorial writers, columnists, and photojournalists. A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using source (journalism), sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific Beat reporting, beat (area of cov ...
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