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Archive: Media: Background to a Fiji vendetta

A decade-old vendetta against a New Zealand journalist by a Fiji-based media group has again resurfaced. By Harry Stoner In mid-1989, the New Zealand Journalist branded...

Café Pacific: Media freedom and transparency

Edited by David Robie Kia ora tatou and welcome to journalist David Robie's independent news media and politics commentary and analysis about Aotearoa/NZ and the...

Archive: Scrutiny of the Pacific mass media

REVIEW: By Damon Salesa This ocean of ours is many things, but it is rarely "pacific". The passage of contact, colonialism and supposed independence has...

Archive: Pacifications: The erosion of press freedom in Oceania

By David Robie in Arena Magazine Abstract: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion...

Archive: Crusading journalism in the blood from Edinburgh to Aotearoa [Profile]

"It's ironic that my work is published more outside New Zealand than it is here." (Article first published in 1992). PROFILE: By Murray Horton "My conception...

Archive: Journalists face grisly threats in Philippines

On average seven journalists have been killed every year in the Philippines since Cory Aquino came to power. David Robie reports on a record...