Melanesia: Facebook algorithms censor article about press freedom in West Papua
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Facebook to restore an article that was censored for violating its rules on nudity and urges...
Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series.
A rather beautiful...
Philippine radio storytelling and community empowerment in Vinzons
By David Robie in Manila
Operating out of a modest three-roomed rooftop suite overlooking the local marketplace in the rice-producing Bicol township of Vinzons, a...
PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...
Toxic smoke chokes region as Indonesian rainforests burn – David Robie on TRT
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of people,...
Talanoa: expanding millennial notions of a ‘Pacific way’ journalism education and media research culture
By David Robie
As critical issues such as climate change, exploited fisheries, declining human rights, and reconfiguration of political systems inherited at independence increasingly challenge...