Research

How should the media cover a genocide? New Zealand’s national broadcaster is failing in its duty

ANALYSIS: By Jeremy Rose, Eugene Doyle and Ramon Das Radio New Zealand’s decision to conduct a review of its Israel-Palestine coverage post-7 October 2023 is commendable.  It commissioned Colin Feslier,...

As Trump basks in Gulf Arab applause, Israel massacres children in Gaza

Nakba Day today marks 15 May 1948 — the day after the declaration of the State of Israel...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel admits it bombed a hospital to kill a journalist for doing journalism

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix LISTEN: A reading of this article...

Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Biden, Israel ‘did best to cover up’

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show looking at Israel’s ongoing targeting of Palestinian journalists. A recent report...

Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner

SPECIAL REPORT: By Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations,...

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,...