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,...
West Papua a media black spot
By David Robie and Alex Perrottet
The state of Pacific media freedom is fragile in the wake of serious setbacks, notably in Fiji, with...