David Robie

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David Robie (1945-) is a New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than two decades. [1] He became an associate professor in Auckland University of Technology School of Communication Studies in 2005. [2] In 1985, Dr Robie sailed on board the Greenpeace eco-navy flagship Rainbow Warrior for 10 weeks until it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand’s Auckland harbour. [3] [4] He is the author of a book about the ill-fated voyage, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (Lindon Books, 1986). [5] A new memorial edition of Eyes of Fire was published in July 2005 (Asia Pacific Network). [6]

In 1993-1997, Robie headed the University of Papua New Guinea journalism programme and in 1998-2002 became coordinator of the University of the South Pacific journalism school [7] where his students covered the 2000 George Speight coup d'etat in Fiji. [8] In 1999, Robie became the annual Australian Press Council Fellow. [9] He is founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review. [10], which was launched at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994. In 2005, he won the PIMA Pacific Media. Freedom Award [11] and is now director of the Pacific Media Centre [12]. Dr Robie is author of several books on South Pacific media and politics [13], including Mekim Nius: South Pacific media, politics and education. [14]

[edit] Bibliography

• Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (2005, memorial edition)[15]
• Mekim Nius: South Pacific media, politics and education (2004)[16]
• The Pacific Journalist: A Practical Guide (ed., 2001)
• Nius Bilong Pasifik: Mass Media in the Pacific (ed., 1995)
• Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific (ed., 1992)
• Och Varlden Blundar ... (1989, translated into Swedish by Margareta Eklof)
• Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific (1989)[17]
• Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (1986)[18]

[edit] External links

• David Robie's Cafe Pacific media and politics web blog [19]
• David Robie's Asia-Pacific current affairs web portal [20]
• Research profile at AUT University [21]
• Journalism school training newspaper Te Waha Nui, [22] at AUT University.
• "Young and brave: In Pacific island paradise, journalism students cover a strange coup attempt for course credit." - IPI Global Journalist, September 2000 [23]