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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...

Corruption, illegal tuna fisheries and a ‘lifestyle tsunami’ trouble Pacific business editors

Café Pacific How ironic. For two days this week, veteran Pacific affairs correspondent Sean Dorney from Australia Network was contributing hugely to an inaugural regional...

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...

No colonel of truth in Fiji

For a year, journalists in Fiji have had to live with censors posted in the newsroom. Now a new media decree threatens huge fines...

David Robie: Fiji media fights on for free press

By David Robie Editors, broadcasters and publishers are struggling to defend the last vestige of a free press in Fiji in the face of a...

Fiji’s ‘how to gag the media’ report

By David Robie in Café Pacific It is ironic that Jim Anthony's flawed report for the Fiji Human Rights Commission should be dubbed with an...