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] and a 30th anniversary edition in July 2015 (Little Island Press).[7]

David Robie

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.[8] 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".[9] In 1999, Robie became the annual Australian Press Council Fellow[10] and is an advocate of Pacific media freedom.[11] He is founding editor of Pacific Journalism Review, which was launched at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994. Between 1998-2002, Robie was the Head of Journalism at the University of the South Pacific. As of 2002, he is a professor of Journalism and Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology.[12] He specialises in Asia-Pacific issues[13] and is now director of the Pacific Media Centre. Robie is author of several books on South Pacific media and politics.[14]

Awards[12]

1985: NZ Media Prize, for coverage of the Rainbow Warrior bombing

1989: Qantas Awards for beast feature article

2005: PIMA Pacific Media Freedom Award.[15]

2015: AMIC Asia Communication in Dubai, becoming the first Australasian to get this honor.

Publications[16]

References
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  2. "David Robie".
  3. "Samoa Observer".
  4. "A PHOTOGRAPHER'S DATE WITH A NUCLEAR DEATH".
  5. "David Robie".
  6. "Eyes Of Fire: When Nuclear Wars Came To Town".
  7. http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/thirty_years_later_the_bombing_of_the_rainbow_warrior/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. "Internet coup in Fiji 2000".
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "1999 Australian Press Council Fellow: David Robie, report and speeches".
  11. "Promoting Asia-Pacific journalism - David Robie". Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
  12. Professor David Robie. "Director, Pacific Media Centre". Auckland University of Technology.
  13. "Asia Media". Archived from the original on 22 May 2012.
  14. "Mekim nius : South Pacific media, politics and education / David Robie".
  15. "David Robie Wins PIMA Pacific Media Freedom Award".
  16. "David Robie | Auckland University of Technology - Academia.edu". aut.academia.edu. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
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