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Development journalism, Alex Perrottet

Posted on August 29, 2014 by NZ Books

Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific
David Robie
Little Island Press
ISBN 9781877484254

It’s easy to read a book written by a journalist, especially if it covers wars, environmental disasters, independence struggles, and what happens when you try to report on them.

Tagged with: Alex Perrottet, David Robie, Issue 107, Little Island Press, Spring 2014
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review

Doing it our way, Bill Southworth

Posted on March 17, 1996 by NZ Books

Mass Media in the Pacific ‑ Nuis Bilong Pasifik David Robie (ed) University of Papua New Guinea Press, $29.95 ISBN 9980840528 Foreign Correspondents Liam Jeory and Cameron Bennett Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1869582101 As the technological means for gathering…

Tagged with: Bill Southworth, Cameron Bennett, David Robie, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 22, Liam Jeory, University of Papua New Guinea Press
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review

More polemic than analysis, Barrie Macdonald

Posted on September 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific David Robie (ed), Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, and Pluto Press, Annandale, Australia, 1992, $39.95 At one level David Robie, a journalist well-versed in political and environmental conflicts in Oceania, has succeeded in bringing…

Tagged with: Barrie Macdonald, Bridget Williams Books, David Robie, Issue 6, Pluto Press, Spring 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, Sociology