David Robie
David Robie
David Robie (born 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 and a professor in 2011.[2][3] 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.[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] An updated memorial edition of Eyes of Fire was published in July 2005.[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 where his students covered the 2000 George Speight coup d'état in Fiji.[7] According to the NZ Listener, an assistant minister in Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's government in 1998 threatened to close Robie's media and politics website - Café Pacific - and revoke his work permit as a media educator in "what was seen as the first test of the 1997 Constitution's freedom of expression clause".[8] In 1999, Robie became the annual Australian Press Council Fellow[9] and is an advocate of Pacific media freedom.[10] He is founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review. , which was launched at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994. In 2005, he won the PIMA Pacific Media Freedom Award,[11] specialises in Asa-Pacific issues[12] and is now director of the Pacific Media Centre . Dr Robie is author of several books on South Pacific media and politics,[13] including Mekim Nius: South Pacific media, politics and education.[14][15]
Books by David Robie
- Robie, David (2005) Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (memorial edition) ISBN 9781877314469
- Robie, David (2004) Mekim Nius: South Pacific media, politics and education ISBN 9781877314307
- Robie, David (ed.) (2001) The Pacific Journalist: A Practical Guide ISBN 9820103851
- Robie, David (ed.) (1995) Nius Bilong Pasifik: Mass Media in the Pacific ISBN 9980840528
- Robie, David (ed.) (1992) Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific ISBN 0908912145
- Robie, David (1989) Och världen blundar... Kampen för frihet i Stilla Havet (translated into Swedish by Margareta Eklof, Sweden) ISBN 9170245274
- Robie, David (1989) Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific ISBN 0862328659
- Robie, David (1987) Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (New Society Publishers edition, USA) ISBN 0865711143
- Robie, David (1986) Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (Lindon, NZ)
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