Shooting the messenger, Pacific style
Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far too narrow terms, as if Big Brother governments and politicians ignorant...
Talanoa: The complex notion of news in the Pacific
Brent Edwards looks at journalist and academic David Robie's scrutiny of the Pacific region's governance and journalism. Cartoon by David Pope
By Brent Edwards
David Robie...
Sedition, e-libel is the new media front line
By David Robie
One of Fiji’s best investigative journalists and media trainers ended up as a spin doctor and henchman for wannabe dictator George Speight....
New free press book a must read for Pacific ‘media spoilers’
By Patrick Craddock in Suva
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific is being published today while Fiji...
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific (2014)
By David Robie
A comprehensive "hidden stories of the Pacific" media and communication book about many of the region’s major issues of the past two...
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...