About: jimtucker
- Full Name
- Jim Tucker
- Website
- http://www.newswire.co.nz
- Details
- Into my 43rd year as a journo and teacher. Spent 22 years in newspapers and now nearly as long in polytechs teaching the trade. I have an MA in communication studies (thesis on ethics), but I don't consider myself an academic. You can contact me on tuckerhouse@xtra.co.nz.
Posts by jimtucker:
PROSTABLOG pages
Stories posted so far
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Prostablog RSS – click here- Maori TV does stunning programme about prostate cancer on Chatham Islands November 28, 2009
- Prostate cancer and me – we’re finished (hopefully) November 21, 2009
- You’re still looking at this blog – what is it I don’t understand about blogging? November 16, 2009
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- AFTER EFFECTS (148)
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- NZ Media coverage (5)
- Prostate blogs (24)
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- PROSTATE RESEARCH (749)
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- AFTER EFFECTS (148)
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