Archive: Media: Press freedom on the rocks
A feisty newspaper publisher's loss to the Samoan prime minister in a hefty defamation case and manipulation by the Fiji Information Ministry in an...
Community, demagogues and the South Pacific news media
By David Robie
On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee...
Archive: A photographer’s date with a nuclear death
President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And...
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...