Media and academia: the intriguing case of the Pacific Media Center
By David Robie
Te Amokura: Pacific Media Centre (PMC) was founded at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in October 2007 at a time of great...
‘Survival and truth’ – journalists in the Asia-Pacific
Asia Media Centre
Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two Asia-Pacific...
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...
Melanesia: Facebook algorithms censor article about press freedom in West Papua
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Facebook to restore an article that was censored for violating its rules on nudity and urges...
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”...
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...