Articles

David Robie: Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific

PROFILE: By Mong Palatino Global Voices has interviewed veteran Aotearoa New Zealand writer and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism education, and the role of...

Saige England: We need to write about wrongs, read about wrongs – and be active about those wrongs

COMMENTARY: By Saige England Being passive must come after being passionate and active. Some know this. Some don't. So many people...

‘You’re a liar!’ NZ foreign minister Peters insults Gaza flotilla torture survivor in Parliament

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle Something significant and revelatory just happened in the New Zealand Parliament. I was present...

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

In the great expanse of oceans, a number of small, remote islands are having their moment in the...

Jonathan Cook: Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof

It isn’t Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It...

Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy

By David Robie in Jakarta Indonesian hospitality was given a rave notice last week for hosting World Press Freedom Day 2017, but it was also...

Self-censorship in the Fiji media – Fijileaks reviews a timely book on coups, culture and criticism

By Victor Lal, founding editor-in-chief of Fijileaks Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem & Human Rights in the Pacific, in a sense, is a...

Rendezvous with the ‘nuclear free’ Vanuatu cover girl after 33 years

By David Robie on Aneityum, Vanuatu She had the most enchanting smile, even though she had lost her baby teeth. Her toothless grin turned out...

‘That day I saw the power of media, and how it can be tragic’

By DAVID ROBIE Surprising that a conference involving some of the brightest minds in journalism education from around the world should be ignored by New...

Pacific media ought to bear witness to human rights violations, says David Robie

Pacific Community Professor David Robie, a prominent journalist and director of Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, shared his experiences of human rights coverage...

The PMC project: independent journalism

Reported and presented by Alistar Kata Alistar Kata, an award-winning journalist with Tagata Pasifika, made a 15 minute mini-documentary about the work of the Pacific...