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December 6, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie with PJR designer Del Abcede and MC John Pulu of Tagata Pasifika … how a Pacific ‘reset’ can benefit the centre’s future evolution. Image: PMC PACIFIC journalism and media researchers have gathered “live” in Auckland and “virtually” from Australia, ... <a title="Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges – and David is taking on a new role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/06/pacific-journalism-media-and-diversity-researchers-tackle-challenges-and-david-is-taking-on-a-new-role/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges – and David is taking on a new role">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A display of Kanaky independence flags on referendum day. Image: Al Jazeera/PMC screenshot ANALYSIS: By David Robie WHILE pro-independence Kanak supporters rued another defeat in the second referendum on independence for New Caledonia at the weekend, it was even narrower than the loss two years ago. ... <a title="Victory in defeat for Kanak independence movement in latest referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/victory-in-defeat-for-kanak-independence-movement-in-latest-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Victory in defeat for Kanak independence movement in latest referendum">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Facebook censorship on West Papua … a “cruel irony”. Image: RSF/PMC By David Robie THE SILENCE from Facebook is deafening and disturbing. At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the immediate removal of a West Papua news items from the ... <a title="Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/facebook-censorship-on-west-papua-then-deafening-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The Hiroshima devastation 75 years ago today. Image: ICAN By David Robie While the globe struggles to cope with the deadly onslaught of the covid-19 pandemic, communicators, historians, journalists and activists have been deploying innovative ways of marking three nuclear-related anniversaries in barely a month. Over ... <a title="75 plus 35 years – the Hiroshima and Rainbow Warrior nuclear rewinds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/75-plus-35-years-the-hiroshima-and-rainbow-warrior-nuclear-rewinds/" aria-label="Read more about 75 plus 35 years – the Hiroshima and Rainbow Warrior nuclear rewinds">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A Papuan with a face painting of the banned Papuan independence flag Morning Star. Image: The Road REVIEW:By David Robie The 4300-km Trans-Papua Highway costing some US$1.4 billion was supposed to bring “wealth, development and prosperity” to the isolated regions of West Papua. At least, that’s ... <a title="West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/west-papuas-highway-of-blood-a-case-of-destruction-not-development/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not development">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Reporters Without Borders has just published its annual World Press Freedom Index ranking countries over censorship. Video: Hannah Cleaver/DW PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie Against a backdrop of many governments using tough controls under cover of fighting the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic to strengthen “creeping authoritarianism”, ... <a title="Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/25/tough-coronavirus-controls-threaten-pacific-global-media-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – PNG’s Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey (left) … in the middle of a furore between two senior journalists, Gorethy Kenneth and Freddy Mou, and Police Minister Bryan Kramer over media ethics. Image: Kramer Report By Pacific Media Watch PAPUA New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has published an ... <a title="Police Minister Bryan Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/13/police-minister-bryan-kramer-blasts-two-journalists-in-virus-reporting-row/" aria-label="Read more about Police Minister Bryan Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – President Rodrigo Duterte with the press … his powers to ban Rappler for two years challenged in court. Image: Freeze frame/David Robie By David Robie in Manila Rappler, the innovative online publisher that has been at the media freedom frontline in the Philippines for the past ... <a title="Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/rappler-challenges-dutertes-media-powers-in-democracy-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – [embedded content] The Rappler video feed on the Ampatuan convictions last month. For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through a ruthless private army and a reported “propensity for beheadings”, the clan ... <a title="‘Monsters Inc’ – Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/monsters-inc-ampatuan-massacre-justice-aftermath-with-more-fear-of-warlords-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Monsters Inc’ – Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2019
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Steve Sawyer, Rongelap campaigner with the original Rainbow Warrior which was bombed by French secret service agents in July 1985 in Auckland, aboard the new Rainbow Warrior during the ship’s first visit to New Zealand. © Nigel Marple/Greenpeace A tribute to STEVE SAWYER by former Rainbow ... <a title="Remembering environmental campaigner Steve Sawyer, 1956-2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/02/remembering-environmental-campaigner-steve-sawyer-1956-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering environmental campaigner Steve Sawyer, 1956-2019">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2019
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The new video produced by Blessen Tom and Sri Krishnamurthi for AUT’s Pacific Media Centre. By Sri Krishnamurthi “It’s a bit of a lighthouse” for vital regional news and information, says former contributing editor Alex Perrottet summing up the value of the Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific ... <a title="‘Pacific Media Watch – the Genesis’, a new freedom, ethics and plurality doco" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/13/pacific-media-watch-the-genesis-a-new-freedom-ethics-and-plurality-doco/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Pacific Media Watch – the Genesis’, a new freedom, ethics and plurality doco">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2019
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Dr Mohamed El-Guindy … time for universities to step up or face an Orwellian future. Image: David Robie/PMC By DAVID ROBIE in Bangkok A LEADING cyber security expert has called on universities to play a more active role in implementing ethics and legal frameworks for communications ... <a title="Global smart tech, ethics and cyber humanism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/02/global-smart-tech-ethics-and-cyber-humanism/" aria-label="Read more about Global smart tech, ethics and cyber humanism">Read more</a>
