Archive: Scrutiny of the Pacific mass media
REVIEW: By Damon Salesa
This ocean of ours is many things, but it is rarely "pacific". The passage of contact, colonialism and supposed independence has...
Archive: Uni Tavur: A frog’s head, old ashtrays and student politics
Uni Tavur, the journalism training newspaper produced by the University of Papua New Guinea reporters and editors, celebrated its second decade of publishing in July...
Archive: Pacifications: The erosion of press freedom in Oceania
By David Robie in Arena Magazine
Abstract: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion...
Archive: Crusading journalism in the blood from Edinburgh to Aotearoa [Profile]
"It's ironic that my work is published more outside New Zealand than it is here." (Article first published in 1992).
PROFILE: By Murray Horton
"My conception...
Archive: Rabuka stirs bitter media freedom row
Former Fiji military strongman Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka is now deputy Prime Minister in the civilian interim government. As leader of the 1987 coups d'état,...
Archive: Journalists face grisly threats in Philippines
On average seven journalists have been killed every year in the Philippines since Cory Aquino came to power. David Robie reports on a record...