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Caitlin Johnstone: Assad is out, woke Al-Qaeda is in

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Well, the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is out, likely to be replaced by one or more US puppet regimes depending on whether the nation...

PNG’s Parkop tells exiled Papuans ‘don’t lose hope – keep up the freedom struggle’

Asia Pacific Report Governor Powes Parkop of Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby has appealed to West Papuans living...

Amnesty International doubles down on Israeli Gaza ‘genocide, atrocities’ report at NZ rally

By David Robie Amnesty International officials at a rally in Auckland today doubled down on their global report this...

Eugene Doyle: The demon in the mirror. Trump exposes who we are

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle They “will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied...

How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior podcast series

REVIEW: By Giff Johnson in Majuro As a prelude to the 40th anniversary of the evacuation of Rongelap Islanders...

David Robie on ResearchGate

Dr David Robie is semi-retired professor of Pacific journalism and founding director of AUT University's Pacific Media Centre. He is a NZ journalist who...

Self-censorship in the Fiji media – Fijileaks reviews a timely book on coups, culture and criticism

By Victor Lal, founding editor-in-chief of Fijileaks Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem & Human Rights in the Pacific, in a sense, is a...

Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face – book review and interview with David Robie by David Blackall

Book review and interview with the author David Robie by David Blackall Introduction David Robie’s latest book is incisive and autobiographical. Kalafi Moala, a courageous publisher...

The talanoa and the tribal paradigm: Reflections on cross-cultural reporting in the Pacific

By David Robie Alongside normative definitions of the Fourth Estate as an independent watchdog on political power, in the South Pacific there is also a...

Coups, conflicts and human rights: Pacific media challenges in the digital age

By David Robie At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust is Britain’s so-called Hackgate scandal involving the widespread allegations...

Media blind spots overcome by ‘critical’ journalism, says first Pacific j-professor David Robie

By Alex Perrottet Despite bans on foreign journalists in West Papua, there is "no excuse" for journalists to turn their backs on the Melanesian people,...