Archive: Frontline reporters: A students’ internet coup
By David Robie
Hours after a mob attached Fiji Television and cut transmission for almost 48 hours, the University of the South Pacific pulled the...
The Pacific Journalist: A Practical Guide (2001)
Edited by David Robie
"Journalists, as arch-whistleblowers, are often viewed in the same light as trouble-makers who stir up situations unnecessarily. There are deep-rooted beliefs...
Archive: Fiji coup 2000: Ossies recognise promising journalism talent of the future
By Mark Pearson
The United States has its Pulitzer prizes. Australia has the Walkleys. And journalism education in the region has the Ossies, the Journalism...
Archive: Coup coup land: The press and the putsch in Fiji
By David Robie
Abstract: On 19 May 2000, an insurrection led by failed businessman George Speight and seven renegade members of the élite 1st Meridian...
Archive: Young and brave: In Pacific island paradise, journalism students cover a strange coup attempt for a course credit
By Sean Ransom, compiled from reports by USP journalism coordinator David Robie and USP student journalists Christine Gounder and Tamani Nair
Fiji's young media corps...
Archive: Fiji coup 2000: Guns and money [Profile]
The Fijian crisis is not about the rights of ordinary people, says veteran Pacific affairs journalist David Robie, it is about 'a Third World...