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...
Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence
COMMENT: By David Robie
The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing.
At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the...
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...
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”...
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...
Flashback to the 1968 My Lai massacre: ‘Something dark and bloody’
By David Robie, originally published at Café Pacific blog
The Melbourne Sunday Observer -- the original newspaper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement...