Analysis

Kāpū Tī with Antony: Confessions of a fringe City Centre local

By Antony Phillips in The Vertical For this edition of Kāpū Tī with Antony, I sit down with journalist and academic, Dr David Robie. A professor of journalism who has...

Cry, my beloved New Zealand. Another Kiwi abandoned to the IDF

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle There was only one moment when I was interviewing him last week that Mousa Taher...

‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli prison system nightmare

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle I interviewed several of the New Zealanders who, as members of the Global Sumud...

Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal at hands of Israeli military

Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian...

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims brutal abuse ‘justified’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have...

Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a beacon

Professor Vijay Naidu’s speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva,...

PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues

PANG Media The PANG media team at this month’s Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David...

Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here’s what makes Evan Vucci’s Trump photograph so powerful

ANALYSIS: By Sara Oscar The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania was captured by several photographers who were standing at the...

When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and political hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena

By David Robie for Pacific Media Watch Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital...

A surprising litmus test for Kanaky New Caledonia’s independence parties

ANALYSIS: By Denise Fisher The voters in the second round of France’s national elections last weekend staved off an expected shift to the far-right. But...

David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings

PMN Pacific Mornings A major conference on the state and future of Pacific media is taking place this week in Fiji. Dr David Robie, editor of...