Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw nerve in NZ
By David Robie
Seven weeks ago the Philippines truth-telling martial law film Katips was basking in the limelight in the country’s national FAMAS academy movie...
Media and academia: the intriguing case of the Pacific Media Center
By David Robie
Te Amokura: Pacific Media Centre (PMC) was founded at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in October 2007 at a time of great...
Murray Horton: The day the police came looking for a swifty Mr Gangster
By Murray Horton
As I was having breakfast in my Christchurch suburban dining room on Monday morning, I heard a loud but indeterminate noise.
I actually...
New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament siege: QAnon and how social media disinformation manufactured an ‘alternate reality’
By David Robie in Pacific Journalism Review
Fires burned across Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament grounds, and violent clashes broke out between protesters and police on...
‘Doorstops’ at the Pacific Forum – why no tough questions on West Papua?
By Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie
A lively 43sec video clip surfaced during last week’s Pacific Islands Forum in the Fiji capital of Suva...
‘Survival and truth’ – journalists in the Asia-Pacific
Asia Media Centre
Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two Asia-Pacific...