tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21457430143820064252024-03-06T06:30:17.436-08:00Café Pacific - David Robie | Media freedom and transparencycafé pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.comBlogger784125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-49365035745460876642023-05-12T04:44:00.001-07:002023-05-12T04:44:55.877-07:00Café Pacific blog has now expanded into a new independent website Café Pacific . . . an innovative approach.IMAGE: Café PacificPACIFIC 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.
While Asia Pacific Report will continue to cover regional affairs, the new website — dubbed Café Pacific,
the same name as his blog which is being café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-35072390418276025472023-03-25T05:27:00.004-07:002023-03-26T05:52:43.719-07:00The 'death' of journalism – may its memory be a blessing R.I.P. Journalism . . . with "thanks" to ChatGPT. IMAGE: CPA SNIPPET shared 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.”
The less than 500-word result churned out by the café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-91386270597571090622023-02-28T00:54:00.001-08:002023-03-01T01:53:39.389-08:00Two countries, two kidnappings – Port Moresby shows Jakarta how it’s done with 3 PNG hostages freedNZ
pilot Philip Mehrtens with some of his West Papuan rebel captors . . .
hopes for his release as with the hostages in neighbouring Papua New
Guinea. IMAGE: TPNPB video screenshot APRBy DAVID ROBIE
TWO countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses
of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
On February 7, a militant cell of the West Papua National café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-80880537263313320432023-02-15T15:46:00.002-08:002023-02-16T12:04:20.301-08:00West Papuan cat-and-mouse over NZ pilot taken captive by ‘freedom’ rebelsNew
Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens taken captive by Papuan rebels . . . a
"Papua Merdeka" - Free Papua message. IMAGE: TPNPB screenshot APRBy DAVID ROBIE
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.
Christchurch-raised Philip Mehrtens, 37, a pilot for the café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-3931674858050995202023-02-04T17:16:00.001-08:002023-02-04T20:58:56.131-08:00Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reportsPapuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor . . . “Journalists need to
break down the wall and learn freely about our struggle." IMAGE: Victor
Mambor FBBy DAVID ROBIE
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.
As the founder of the café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-50143441051192470112023-01-31T17:06:00.004-08:002023-01-31T17:06:57.222-08:00Fiji’s media veterans recount intimidation under FijiFirst government – eye on reforms
Fiji journalist Lice Movono talks to Café Pacific publisher David Robie while preparing interviews for her media freedom podcast for Radio Australia's Pacific Beat. IMAGE: Screenshot Café PacificPacific Media Watch
RADIO Australia’s Pacific Beat
reports on how Fiji has fared under the draconian Media Act that
has restricted media freedom over the past decade and moves to change
café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-6396598305431519282023-01-30T14:10:00.000-08:002023-01-30T14:10:16.098-08:00What the resignation of New Zealand's inspirational prime minister meansNew Zealand’s former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugs friends and colleagues at her farewell to the nation as leader. Image: DAWN/AFPBy DAVID ROBIE for IDN-InDepth News
AOTEAROA New Zealand has been shaken to the
core by the sudden resignation of one of its most iconic and revered
prime ministers amid a fierce controversy over misogyny and death
threats stirred by the global coronavirus café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-46563964409568610472023-01-24T01:47:00.002-08:002023-01-24T01:47:07.061-08:00‘Terror’ bomb explodes near Papua journalist Victor Mambor’s homePolice gather evidence near the site of a bomb explosion that took place
outside the house of Jubi editor Victor Mambor, in Jayapura, Papua,
Indonesia, on 23 January 2023. IMAGE: AJI for BenarNewsBy DANDY KOSWARAPUTRA and PIZARO GOZALI IDRUSPacific Media Watch
A VETERAN journalist known for covering rights abuses in Indonesia’s
militarised Papua region says a bomb exploded outside his home café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-58249587630280099312022-12-30T21:19:00.001-08:002023-02-15T15:47:24.291-08:002022 Pacific political upheavals, elections eclipse Tongan volcanoPopular original 1987 coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka . . . back as prime minister in Fiji but with promises of a more democratic and transparent era. Image: FIJIVILLAGE2022 PACIFIC REVIEW: By David RobieThe Pacific year started with a ferocious eruption and global tsunami in Tonga, but by the year’s end several political upheavals had also shaken the region with a vengeance.A razor’s edge election café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-22434199727959309502022-11-02T16:24:00.000-07:002022-11-02T16:24:15.143-07:00Farewell Filep Karma, the revered West Papuan leader who could have ushered in unityWest Papua's funeral procession for Filep Karma . . . banned
Morning Star flags in defiance for the man who strove for “justice,
democracy, peace and non-violent resistance" against Indonesian rule. IMAGE: Twitter screenshot APR
By DAVID ROBIEA TRAGIC day of mourning. Thousands thronged the West Papuan funeral cortège today and tonight as the banned Morning Star led the way in defiance of the café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-8986905062193705582022-10-27T01:11:00.000-07:002022-10-27T01:11:15.246-07:00Fiji academic warns over media ‘climate injustice’ in open access webinarOpen Access Australasia deputy chair Dimity Flanagan . . . moderating
the "look at the evidence" webinar on the media and climate crisis. IMAGE: Open Access screen shot APRBy DAVID ROBIE
A Fiji-based academic challenged the Pacific region’s media and
policymakers today over climate crisis coverage, asking whether the
discriminatory style of reporting was a case of climate injustice.
Associatecafé pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-42210712425221253542022-10-22T00:57:00.004-07:002022-10-23T20:29:19.505-07:00Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation - David RobieMedia educator and Asia Pacific Report editor Professor David Robie tells of the resilience and courage of Pacific journalists faced with many challenges. IMAGE: MediAsia Iafor/La Trobe screenshotBy MEDIASIA IAFOR
New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades.
An advocate for media freedom in the Pacific café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-28226315915956861812022-10-15T05:01:00.003-07:002022-10-16T05:46:54.403-07:00Defend NZ’s ‘fragile democracy’ by tackling disinformation, says advocateAnjum Rahman, project lead of the Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono .
. . “If our democracy fails, all those other things fail as well.” IMAGE: David Robie/Asia Pacific ReportBy DAVID ROBIE
A human rights advocate has appealed for people in Aotearoa New
Zealand to take personal responsibility in the fight against
disinformation and to upskill their critical thinking skills.
Anjum Rahman, café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-4827646659126406022022-09-24T20:08:00.003-07:002022-10-07T03:53:57.488-07:00New Asia Pacific nonprofit takes up role of PJR publishing for research
Members of the recently formed APMN at a recent general meeting at the
Whānau Community Hub in Auckland's Mt Roskill. IMAGE: APMNAsia Pacific Report newsdesk
A new Asia Pacific nonprofit group has taken up the role of publishing the independent Pacific Journalism Review and other research and publication ventures.
The launch of the Asia Pacific Media Network | Te Koakoa Inc. (APMN)
hascafé pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-57956001950881867622022-09-19T06:02:00.003-07:002022-09-19T06:05:15.679-07:00Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw nerve in NZA Gabriela poster honouring martyred women during the Marcos martial law
years in the Philippines on display at the AUT film screening. IMAGE:
David Robie/APRBy DAVID ROBIE
Seven weeks ago the Philippines truth-telling martial law film Katips
was basking in the limelight in the country’s national FAMAS academy
movie awards, winning best picture and a total of six other awards.
Last week it café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-7731151119918330892022-09-09T02:06:00.003-07:002022-09-09T19:23:58.720-07:00Late Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 Pacific royal tour teaches us much about how we saw the worldThe Sunday Graphic's 1953 Royal Tour Picture Album ... "The tour seems
to have been a strange affair, a tour of places rarely visited by
royalty alongside some more important, but equally far-flung outposts of
the Commonwealth. It was rather like Iron Maiden playing in Christchurch
or Caracas." IMAGE: PJR screenshotAs global tributes pour in for Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at 96 after ancafé pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-82588401702260195172022-07-29T03:41:00.000-07:002022-07-29T03:41:22.139-07:00NZ’s Parliament siege, ‘disinformation war’, kava and media change featured in latest PJRPacific Journalism Review ... exposing the assault on "truth telling" and a kava photoessay. IMAGE: Todd Henry/PJR
By PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
Frontline investigative articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s 23-day
Parliament protester siege, social media disinformation and Asia-Pacific
media changes and adaptations are featured in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.
The assault on “truth café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-83117380309813666012022-07-22T04:31:00.000-07:002022-07-22T04:31:03.147-07:00‘Doorstops’ at the Pacific Forum – why no tough questions on West Papua?Bodies of civilians being evacuated after an attack by an armed group at
Nogolaid Village, Kenyam District, Nduga Regency, Papua, last Saturday. IMAGE: Jubi By DAVID ROBIE
A LIVELY 43sec video clip surfaced during last week’s Pacific Islands
Forum in the Fiji capital of Suva — the first live leaders’ forum in
three years since Tuvalu, due to the covid pandemic.
Posted on Twitter by Guardian café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-29279944592462733752022-06-10T17:43:00.000-07:002022-06-10T17:43:01.072-07:00Filipino migrants call on NZ to halt military aid to Philippines over Marcos electionFilipinos in the Wellington meeting make their pledge simultaneously
with the Auckland group for “history, truth and democracy” in the
Philippines.IMAGE: Del Abcede/APR COMMENTARY: By DAVID ROBIE
MIGRANTS and overseas Filipinos in Aotearoa New Zealand have called
on the governments of both Australia and New Zealand to halt all
military and security aid to the Philippines in protest over lastcafé pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-82129399598948514722022-06-06T19:17:00.002-07:002022-06-06T19:20:14.601-07:00Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepersShowing how it's done ... a "more open" media conference in Dili with
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi. IMAGE: TL Presidential Palace media By DAVID ROBIE
Timor-Leste, the youngest independent nation and the most fledgling
press in the Asia-Pacific, has finally shown how it’s done — with a big
lesson for Pacific island neighbours.
Tackle the Chinese media gatekeepers and creeping café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-10741090372515823242022-05-10T01:22:00.002-07:002022-05-16T04:49:51.643-07:00Philippines forgets history and sells its soul for another MarcosStudents protest at the University of the Philippines Manila today over the alleged election irregularities. IMAGE: APRBy DAVID ROBIE in Tāmaki Makaurau
Sadly, the Philippines has sold its soul. Thirty six years ago a
People Power revolution ousted the dictator Ferdinand Marcos after two
decades of harsh authoritarian rule.
Yesterday, in spite of a rousing and inspiring Pink Power café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-19759427800076152762022-04-13T04:41:00.001-07:002022-04-13T04:42:11.791-07:00Open letter to Minister Faafoi – an appeal to help 34 abandoned Papuan studentsPapuan
student advocate Laurens Ikinia ... “We are so grateful to all Kiwis
across the country for their generous support." IMAGE: Del Abcede/Asia
Pacific ReportOPEN LETTER: By David Robie
Kia ora Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi
IT IS unconscionable. A bewildering and grossly unfair crisis for 34
young Papuan students – 25 male and 9 female – the hope for the future
of the West Papua café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-33479676548646338272022-03-30T06:09:00.003-07:002022-03-30T06:15:49.342-07:00Ukraine example cited in call to extend visas for abandoned Papuan studentsGreen
Party MP Teanau Tuiono ... “As a Pacific nation we do have a
responsibility to support West Papuans.” IMAGE: Tagata Pasifika
screenshot APR By MATTHEW SCOTT of Newsroom
Time is running out for a group of West Papuan students in New
Zealand whose scholarships were cut — out of the blue — by the
Indonesian government
The sudden removal of government funding for the Papuan students has
café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-82199028087803052842022-03-01T03:29:00.003-08:002022-03-30T06:15:00.490-07:00AJI slams hacking of group chief’s accounts as attack on press freedomAJI general chairperson Sasmito Madrim speaking to journalists ...
disinformation hacking attack on Madrim's personal WhatsApp, Instagram
and Facebook accounts. IMAGE: Populis By Vitorio Mantalean in Jakarta
THE INDONESIAN Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) has condemned
the hacking and disinformation attacks against the group’s general
chairperson Sasmito Madrim as a serious threat café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145743014382006425.post-43365290889531291442022-03-01T03:06:00.004-08:002022-03-01T03:06:57.571-08:00Flashback: The future of the Pacific Media Centre - David Robie talks
Interview with Radio 531piRADIO 531pi's Ma'a Brian Sagala talks to the retired founding director of the Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, and Tahitian researcher and advocate Ena Manuireva on the Pacific Days With Brian show about uncertainties over the centre's future a year ago. Since then the centre has remained in limbo -- if it even still exists after all the pledges by the café pacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056974853629382533noreply@blogger.com0