Pacific Media Watch
Chris Hedges: Remove curse of Gaza genocide before it becomes the...
This lecture "Requiem for Gaza" was delivered to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia in Adelaide after journalist Chris Hedges'...
Kia Ora Gaza marks 15th anniversary of Viva Palestina 5 solidarity...
Kia Ora Gaza
Fifteen years ago today a contingent of six New Zealanders drove three aid-packed ambulances into Gaza as part of the epic international...
Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis have beaten unconscious the man most...
Pacific Media Watch backs RSF call for urgent end to Gaza...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch supports the call by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for justice for the victims...
Tributes pour in for Matangi Tonga founder Pesi Siale Fonua –...
RNZ Pacific
Pesi Siale Fonua, a veteran Pacific journalist and the publisher-editor of Tonga's leading news website Matangi Tonga Online, has died at the age...
IFJ condemns Australian lobby censorship bids to ‘silence’ reporting on Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
The global peak journalism body has condemned the targeting, harassment, and censorship by lobby groups of Australian journalists for reporting critically on...
Think, click, share – making media literacy fun for Filipinos
By Anthea Grape in Manila
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is vital to nation-building. It empowers Filipinos to make informed decisions by fostering critical thinking,...
Misleading ‘justification’ column on Peters and Palestine panned
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto of G News
This morning New Zealand Herald columnist and political commentator Matthew Hooton was paid to write an article justifying...
Australia’s National Press Club blocks Hedges’ Gaza media talk, lines up...
One Path Network
The National Press Club of Australia has abruptly cancelled a scheduled address by renowned journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Chris Hedges, who...
Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....
ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett, University of Technology Sydney
Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza...
Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted...
Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear...
Israel is boosting its Zionist influence in the Pacific. Australia has exposed such media influence. The media in the Philippines is now under scrutiny....
250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...
Reporters Without Borders
In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets...
Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today
Pacific Media Watch
Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists...
NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet...
A ‘scathing’ report on RNZ’s performance obscures the good news –...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The recent internal report on RNZ’s performance, variously described as “scathing” and “blunt”...
Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists
By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney
The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian...
Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter...
Pacific Media Watch
An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel's trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies...
Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza
By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as...
Media analyst slams Israeli killing of five Gaza journalists – calls...
Pacific Media Watch
A media studies analyst has condemned the latest deadly attack by Israel on journalists in Gaza and challenged Western media over the...
Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor
By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva
West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb...
Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media
Pacific Media Watch
Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality...