David Robie
Dr David Robie is the retired professor of journalism and founding 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 Asia Pacific Report and edits the Pacific Media Watch media freedom project and Café Pacific website ; he is also founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review research journal.
COP21: What will become of us? – a message from young...
Report by Samisoni Pareti in Paris
A young Pacific Islander’s plea for world leaders to help save her island nation from the impacts of climate...
#COP21: Expert warns climate crisis worse than we think, scientists self-censoring...
An Amy Goodman interview reporting from Paris. Image: Democracy Now!
Report by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
Before the United Nations climate change summit in Paris,...
COP21: Indonesian forest fires hot issue for global climate summit
Report by Professor Crispin Maslog in MANILA
As 190 nations grapple with the world's future at the global climate summit in Paris, forest fires in...
COP21: ‘We don’t want to die in silence’ – indigenous people...
Indigenous people from around the world taking to the water in Paris to defend their rights and the environment. Video: Democracy Now!
Report from Democracy...
COP21: Kiribati’s Tong grows wary over ‘coloured vision’ of global leaders
Report from Elenoa Baselala in Paris
A tired but spirited Kiribati President Anote Tong has shared his doubts on a positive outcome on a climate...
#COP21: Draft Paris Outcome on table for climate deal includes Pacific...
By Makereta Komai in Paris
After a week of negotiations, negotiators from 195 countries have produced a Draft Paris Outcome that is likely to become...
COP21: Top media ‘fail to connect’ climate, migration and food security
Report by Pacific Media Watch
PARIS: Top news media are failing to identify climate change as a contributor to some of the world’s biggest crises...
COP21: Politicians leading world to ‘very dangerous future’, says Naomi Klein
Analysis by Mychaylo Prystupa
In sharp contrast to the hopefulness that some environmentalists are expressing at the COP21 climate summit, iconic Canadian activist and...
COP21: Forum’s Meg Taylor makes Pacific video plea to world leaders
Report by Vuniwaqa Bola-Bari
Pacific Ocean Commissioner Dame Meg Taylor has called on world leaders meeting in Paris to protect the Pacific region and the...
COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement
Report by Pacific Media Watch from Paris
“We are gradually being sidelined, everyone is now claiming that they are the most vulnerable” – Ambassador Feturi...
#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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David Robie
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...
