Tag: Fiji coups
Setting the standard in student journalism: AUT University Pacific journalism students take on Fiji general election
Spasifik Magazine
After the Fiji military coup of 5 December 2006, caretaker Prime Minister Jona Senilagakali announced that elections would take place "hopefully in 12...
Shooting the messenger, Pacific style
Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far too narrow terms, as if Big Brother governments and politicians ignorant...
New free press book a must read for Pacific ‘media spoilers’
David Robie talks to Te Waha Nui's Monique McKenzie about the new book
By Patrick Craddock in Suva
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and...
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...
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...