PMC director David Robie wins key Asia-Pacific communication award
Pacific Scoop
The coveted AMIC Asia Communication Award has gone to a “Down Under” winner for the first time this year - 2015.
Professor David Robie,...
Fiji’s media still struggling to regain ‘free and fair’ space
COMMENTARY: By David Robie
Almost eight months after the much-heralded election to usher Fiji back into democracy mode, the country will mark World Press Freedom...
Investigative journalism covering failed states, distant empires and Pacific politics
Media International Australia/Pacific Media Watch
A leading international communications academic has described a recent book from the Pacific Media Centre as "investigative journalism at its...
NZ students win top Ossie Award for 2014 Fijian election coverage
AUT University
Coverage of the Fijian elections by three New Zealand postgraduate student journalists has been awarded a top prize at the annual Ossie Awards.
Mads...
Behind the elusive mythmaking over Fiji, West Papua
By David Robie
On the eve of a vital meeting in Port Vila planning a more unified stance over independence in West Papua by disparate...
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...