Pacific Media Watch: Journalist, author and media academic David Robie has launched an independent news and current affairs website to complement his long-established Asia Pacific Report.
An Australian author and human rights advocate for West Papuan self-determination has sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the federal parliament calling for a Royal Commission to investigate Canberra’s “protection” of Indonesian colonial policies.
As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence activists, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and slanderous attacks on campaigners, Papuan exiles and media people in the Pacific region.
Revealed: What Roch Wamytan and the Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS) delegation told French Prime Minister French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in Paris about the future of Kanaky New Caledonia.
A snippett about the ChatGPT debate from one of the gurus of investigative journalism, Sheila Coronel, at New York’s Columbia School of Journalism. She reports on social media about a recent assignment brief given by a student to ChatGPT: “Write an obituary for journalism.”
Two countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
Papuan independence rebels are playing a desperate game of cat and mouse with Indonesian authorities over their hostage taking last week with a New Zealand pilot caught in the middle.
When Papuan journalist Victor Mambor visited New Zealand almost nine years ago, he impressed student journalists from the Pacific Media Centre and community activists with his refreshing candour and courage.
Pacific Beat interviews journalists, including TDB contributor David Robie, on how Fiji has fared under the draconian Media Act that has restricted media freedom over the past decade – and the moves to change the law.
David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific: A veteran journalist known for covering rights abuses in Indonesia’s militarised Papua region says a bomb exploded outside his home yesterday and a journalists group has called it an act of “intimidation” threatening press freedom.