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...
Pacific media should ‘bear witness’ to human rights violations, says Robie
Human Rights and Social Development
A prominent journalist and founding director of Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, has shared his...
David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie
Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula,
For many of you millennials, you’re graduating and entering a Brave New World...
Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?
Pacific Media Watch
Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -- this...