Articles by David Robie

Too much pressure

After struggling through four coups in two decades, Fiji's journalists acquiesce to the military government when "sulu censors" and police were placed in newsrooms, writes David Robie
Published on: 5/8/2009
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Trouble in paradise

Media organizations protest attack on a Timorese newspaper design editor by military police and expulsion of an expatriate newspaper publisher from post-coup Fiji
Published on: 3/13/2008
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NEW ZEALAND: Author challenges journalists to develop an inclusive media

Carol Archie's new book about cross-cultural reporting released at AUT University
Published on: 8/27/2007
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Growing pains in Timor-Leste

The media in Timor-Leste fared creditably well in its coverage of recent free and fair elections, writes David Robie, but it lacks training and needs resources
Published on: 8/7/2007
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FIJI: Researchers call for deeper understanding from coup reporters

Researchers publish findings in Pacific Journalism Review 20 years after the first coup
Published on: 5/14/2007
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Censors and beat-ups in the South Pacific

Assassinations, coups and conflicts plague the region -- most recently in Fiji -- but does the media provide enough background on post-terrorism issues? asks David Robie
Published on: 12/8/2006
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The perils of South Pacific reporting

David Robie says media in the South Pacific is a revolving door -- bright young graduates aren’t paid well enough to face the stressful and often dangerous job of being reporters
Published on: 3/22/2005
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