PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...
David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie
Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula,
For many of you millennials, you’re graduating and entering a Brave New World...
Pacific media freedom under greater attack than ever
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva
With the trial of three newspaper executives underway in Fiji in May on charges of sedition, the assault of a...
Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?
Pacific Media Watch
Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -- this...
Flashback to the 1968 My Lai massacre: ‘Something dark and bloody’
By David Robie, originally published at Café Pacific blog
The Melbourne Sunday Observer -- the original newspaper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement...
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...