Media

Caitlin Johnstone: On human rights, ‘friendly’ war crimes and Western hypocrisy

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers. Another 20 people...

Great journalism overview of troubling politics and violence in the Pacific region

BOOK REVIEW: By Anna-Karina Hermkens Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific is...

Up close and friendly with Vietnam’s war resistance Củ Chi tunnels

COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam’s famous Củ Chi tunnel network was on our bucket...

Ramzy Baroud: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the acceleration of the collapse of Israel

ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed on August 26 to build a synagogue inside...

West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote is in...

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...

Pacific Media Centre focuses on reporting wars and dangers for journalists, aid workers

David Robie has played a key role in establishing the Pacific Media Centre as part of the Creative Industries Research Institute (CIRI) with a...

No colonel of truth in Fiji

For a year, journalists in Fiji have had to live with censors posted in the newsroom. Now a new media decree threatens huge fines...

David Robie: Fiji media fights on for free press

By David Robie Editors, broadcasters and publishers are struggling to defend the last vestige of a free press in Fiji in the face of a...

David Robie on The News Manual and The Pacific Journalist books for the region

By David Ingram Over the years, one of the Pacific region's most respected journalism educators, Professor David Robie, has said some very kind things about...

Minister praises Pacific Media Centre launch and projects

AUT University Auckland University if Technology's Pacific Media Centre (PMC) was officially launched by the Associate Minister of Pacific Island Affairs Luamanuvao Winnie Laban last...