Media convergence within the news and current affairs landscape over the past two decades has opened opportunities for competing newspapers, television stations and online publishers to form alliances to approach digital and editorial challenges with innovative strategies. The partnerships have often enabled journalists to embrace multimedia platforms with flexibility and initiative. This has fostered a trend in ‘gatewatching’ and a citizen responsive and involved grassroots media rather than legacy mainstream gatekeeping, top-down models. Such committed media attempts in search of investigative journalism accompanied by ‘public’ and ‘civic’ journalism engagement initiatives have also been emulated by some journalism schools in the Asia-Pacific region. This has paralleled the evolution of journalism as a research methodology with academic application over the past decade. Selecting two New Zealand-based complementary and pioneering Pacific digital news and analysis publications, Pacific Scoop (founded 2009) and Asia-Pacific Report (2016), produced by a journalism school programme in partnership with established independent media as a combined case study, this article will demonstrate how academia-based gatewatching media can effectively challenge mainstream gatekeeping media. Pacific Scoop was established by an Auckland university in partnership with New Zealand’s largest independent publisher, Scoop Media Limited, and launched at the M ā ori Expo in 2009. The article also explores the transition of Pacific Scoop into Asia-Pacific Report , launched in partnership with an innovative web-based partner, Evening Report . The study analyses the strategic and innovation efforts in the context of continuing disruptions to New Zealand’s legacy media practices related to the Asia-Pacific region.

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从 Pacific Sc​​oop 到 Asia Pacific Report：一个独立的校园与行业媒体合作伙伴关系的案例研究

过去二十年新闻和时事领域的媒体融合为相互竞争的报纸、电视台和在线出版商提供了机会，可以结成联盟，以创新战略应对数字和编辑挑战。这种伙伴关系通常使记者能够灵活主动地使用多媒体平台。这促进了“守门”和公民响应的趋势，并涉及草根媒体，而不是传统的主流看门人、自上而下的模型。亚太地区的一些新闻学院也效仿这种致力于寻求调查性新闻的媒体尝试以及“公共”和“公民”新闻参与举措。在过去的十年中，这与新闻学作为一种研究方法论和学术应用的演变是平行的。选择两个位于新西兰的互补和开创性的太平洋数字新闻和分析出版物，Pacific Sc​​oop（成立于 2009 年）和 Asia-Pacific Report（2016 年），由新闻学院项目与成熟的独立媒体合作制作，作为综合案例研究，本文章将展示基于学术界的守门媒体如何有效地挑战主流守门媒体。Pacific Sc​​oop 由奥克兰大学与新西兰最大的独立出版商 Scoop Media Limited 合作成立，并于 2009 年在 Māori Expo 上推出。 文章还探讨了 Pacific Sc​​oop 向亚太报告的转变，与创新的基于网络的合作伙伴晚间报告合作推出。该研究分析了在新西兰与亚太地区相关的传统媒体实践持续受到破坏的背景下的战略和创新努力。