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...
Coups, conflicts and human rights: Pacific media challenges in the digital age
By David Robie
At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust is Britain’s so-called Hackgate scandal involving the widespread allegations...
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...
Pacific Islands Forum shuns West Papuan issue
By David Robie
The most astonishing unreported story in this week’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Auckland was a remarkable shift by the United Nations...