Tag: investigative journalism
Pacific Journalism Review’s ‘critical conscience’ waka journey — a final message of thanks
By David Robie, founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review
In November 2020, when Joe Biden finally ushered in his presidency pledges amid the narrow triumph...
PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...
Pacific media should ‘bear witness’ to human rights violations, says Robie
Human Rights and Social Development
A prominent journalist and founding director of Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, has shared his...
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...
Investigative journalism covering failed states, distant empires and Pacific politics
Media International Australia/Pacific Media Watch
A leading international communications academic has described a recent book from the Pacific Media Centre as "investigative journalism at its...
Talanoa: The complex notion of news in the Pacific
Brent Edwards looks at journalist and academic David Robie's scrutiny of the Pacific region's governance and journalism. Cartoon by David Pope
By Brent Edwards
David Robie...