David Robie
Dr David Robie is professor of journalism and director of AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre. He is a strong advocate of independent journalism at the country’s journalism schools. He is co-founder with Selwyn Manning of Pacific Scoop and manages the Pacific Media Watch media freedom project; he is also founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review research journal.
#COP21: Fingers point as threat from Papuan forest fires increases
Report by Ryan Dagur in Jakarta
While countries consider their climate change options for the future at COP21 in Paris, forest fires and the ensuing...
Rainbow Warrior ’s truth-seeking remembered as secrecy lingers
Report by Pacific Media Watch
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France detonated 193 nuclear tests in the South Pacific, at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls, before halting the tests...
COP21: Fiji, Kiribati and Palau back ‘protect oceans’ action proposal
Report by Samisoni Pareti in Paris
Three Pacific island countries of Fiji, Kiribati and Palau have added their support to a European initiative that promotes...
Students, staff stage West Papua human rights flag-raising ceremony
Report by Pacific Media Watch
A group of postgraduate students and staff today raised the West Papuan flag on campus at Auckland University of Technology...
Beirut and Paris: Two terror attacks with different tales
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
By Belen Fernandez
AS NEWS arrived of terror attacks in Paris that ultimately left...
The digital media revolution, a free press and student journalism
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
Professor David Robie's speech at the University of the South Pacific 21st Anniversary...
Nuclear free: Do you know who this ni-Vanuatu girl is?
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
THIS GIRL is featured on the front cover of David Robie's 2014 book...
INFOCORE sets pace on global violent conflict media research project
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
IT was a privilege for the Pacific Media Centre to be among the...
From ‘reality’ TV to the reality of documentary making – the...
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
THE RISE of popular factual television has threatened the key claim on “reality”...
Bikini bombs lawsuit inspires support at NZ peace conference
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
BEFORE Parisian engineer Louis Réard named the sexy two-piece swimsuit a “bikini” in...
‘World Without War’ – and a conference to help make it...
Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
MORE than 40 people with wide-ranging expertise will pool their knowledge and ideas...
Rainbow Warrior bombing ‘should have led to French Watergate’, says saboteur
This article was first published on Café Pacific
ANALYSIS By David Robie
THE unmasked French bomber who sank the Rainbow Warrior 30 years ago had some...
David Robie on Rainbows, warriors and ship naming
Analysis by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
WHEN the 30th anniversary edition of my book Eyes of Fire (Little Island...
‘TPPA – walk away’ rally welcomes West Papuan leader Octo Mote
Analysis by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific
WHILE New Zealand protesters were giving an emphatic thumbs down to the proposed Trans-Pacific...
Rainbow Warrior … launch of the new ‘last voyage’ and bombing...
This article was first published on Café Pacific
DELAYED video of last month's launch of David Robie’s new Eyes of Fire edition about the last...
The ‘sanitised narrative’ of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing
This article was first published on Café Pacific
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of BBC News
The United States has always insisted that the atomic bombs dropped on...
Zinedine Zidane scores wonder try for France legends against Toulon
This article was first published on Café Pacific
Zinedine's wonder try.
By Jack Gaughan for MailOnline
FRANCE 98 victors have taken on European rugby union champions Toulon...
