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Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian...

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it...

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World...

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this...

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying...

Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie It is open season again for Indonesian trolls targeting Asia Pacific Report and other media with fake news and...

How the ‘voice of the voiceless’ kaupapa became derailed at the Pacific Media Centre

By David Robie, founding director of the Pacific Media Centre It really is bizarre. After 26 months of wrangling, stakeholders’ representations and appeals by the...

Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre under spotlight following David Robie’s departure

One of AUT’s Pacific research centres has been without a director since the end of 2020 and a lack of clarity around its future...

AUT comms school denies sidelining Pacific Media Centre

RNZ Pacific Auckland University of Technology has denied claims that the Pacific Media Centre is being dumped or sidelined. The centre's recently retired director Professor David...

USP Journalism dedicates awards to media ‘champion’ David Robie

By Wanshika Kumar in Suva The 20th University of the South Pacific Journalism Student Awards in Suva last month were dedicated to retiring Pacific media...

Pacific Journalism Review’s ‘critical conscience’ waka journey — a final message of thanks

By David Robie, founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review In November 2020, when Joe Biden finally ushered in his presidency pledges amid the narrow triumph...