New free press book a must read for Pacific ‘media spoilers’
David Robie talks to Te Waha Nui's Monique McKenzie about the new book
By Patrick Craddock in Suva
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and...
Corruption, illegal tuna fisheries and a ‘lifestyle tsunami’ trouble Pacific business editors
Café Pacific
How ironic. For two days this week, veteran Pacific affairs correspondent Sean Dorney from Australia Network was contributing hugely to an inaugural regional...
The talanoa and the tribal paradigm: Reflections on cross-cultural reporting in the Pacific
By David Robie
Alongside normative definitions of the Fourth Estate as an independent watchdog on political power, in the South Pacific there is also a...
David Robie talks Rainbow Warrior to Newstalk ZB’s Total Recall
Pacific Media Watch
While in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for the Asian Media Information and Communication (AMIC) media conference, David Robie was contacted by Newstalk ZB's Total...
Media blind spots overcome by ‘critical’ journalism, says first Pacific j-professor David Robie
By Alex Perrottet
Despite bans on foreign journalists in West Papua, there is "no excuse" for journalists to turn their backs on the Melanesian people,...
West Papua a media black spot
By David Robie and Alex Perrottet
The state of Pacific media freedom is fragile in the wake of serious setbacks, notably in Fiji, with...