Tag: media freedom
2022 wrap: Pacific political upheavals eclipse fierce Tongan volcano
2022 PACIFIC REVIEW: By David Robie
The Pacific year started with a ferocious eruption and global tsunami in Tonga, but by the year’s end several...
Fate of NZ research centre highlights university ‘blindness’, media freedom
SPECIAL REPORT: By Dr Lee Duffield
The launch of a New Zealand project to produce more Pacific news and provide a “voice for the voiceless”...
‘Against propaganda, there are facts’ – RSF’s new global campaign video
The new Reporters Without Borders campaign video about Russian’s invasion propaganda. Video: RSF
Pacific Media Watch
As Russia’s propaganda and crackdown on journalism continue to wreak...
David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation
By Mediasia Iafor
New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades.
An advocate for...
New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament siege: QAnon and how social media disinformation manufactured an ‘alternate reality’
By David Robie in Pacific Journalism Review
Fires burned across Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament grounds, and violent clashes broke out between protesters and police on...
‘Doorstops’ at the Pacific Forum – why no tough questions on West Papua?
By Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie
A lively 43sec video clip surfaced during last week’s Pacific Islands Forum in the Fiji capital of Suva...