Originally from the Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa/New Zealand Professor David Robie is a former staff member and Alumnus of The University of the South Pacific (USP) and current Professor of Journalism and Director of the Pacific Media Centre at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). A journalist for more than 40 years, Prof Robie was the Head of USP’s Journalism School for 5 years and prior to that was head of journalism at the University of Papua New Guinea. Reflecting on his time as a student, he said: ‘It was a very hectic and stimulating time for me, trying to do a PhD at the same time as running a demanding and challenging programme such as journalism – and in the middle of an attempted coup’.
USP Alumni Newsletter No 4
Pacific Media Centre
