Tag: David Robie
Owen Wilkes: Exposing foreign militarism on the ‘backside of the earth’
By David Robie
When I first encountered Owen Wilkes it was at a range of 17,000 kilometres -- the distance between Auckland, Aotearoa, and Stockholm,...
Vila-based Indonesian ‘troll’ page targets Papuan advocates
By David Robie
As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence advocates, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and...
Media challenges in a digital world – a Pacific perspective (Part two)
This is part of a keynote address by Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie at the 2015 University of the South Pacific (USP)...
Asia Pacific media network plans wider community programme
Pacific Media Watch
A media network publishing an international research journal has vowed to expand its activities into community media and training initiatives.
The non-profit Asia...
Lice Movono: Hopes for the return of press freedom in Fiji
ABC Pacific
Veteran Fijian journalist Netani Rika and his wife were resting in their living room when suddenly a Molotov cocktail went crashing through their...
‘No Fiji TV broadcast tonight due to censorship’ – Rika recalls Fiji media intimidation
By Lice Movono in Suva
Veteran Fijian journalist Netani Rika and his wife were resting in their living room when he was suddenly woken, startled...