NAME SCOTT WAIDE, BLOGGER

HIS SITE INSPIRATIONAL PAPUA NEW GUINEANS (INSPIRATIONALPAPUANEWGUINEANS.WORDPRESS.COM) BASED LAE, MOROBE PROVINCE

In 2017, Scott Waide celebrated 20 years working in TV, and today he is the highly respected Lae bureau chief for EMTV. It was also in 2017 that he decided to start his blog, Inspirational Papua New Guineans.

“Working in news you focus a lot on negative stories about politics and corruption, and I wanted to put positive stories out there. I wanted to highlight the ordinary people who are heroes in their communities,” he says.

With 10,000 views a month, Waide says his readership is split between Papua New Guineans and foreigners, mostly from the US, Australia and the UK. Even though it is still a hobby for now, with over 6000 Facebook followers, he says the blog has taken on a life of its own. “I get sent suggestions of who to profile next all the time. There is a demand for optimistic stories, and as internet coverage grows across the country so will the number of PNG content creators.”