Tag: Media Freedom

RNZ News Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...

By Boura Goru Kila in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinea court application to stop the news media from reporting on an alleged sexual offence...

Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...

Asia Pacific Report A community-based Asia-Pacific network of academics, journalists and activists has now gone online with an umbrella website for its publications, current affairs...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog RSF (Reporters Without Borders) has appealed for information about the "disappearance" of Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan. She...

Asia Pacific Report Time is running out for media people and academics wanting to tell their innovative story or present research at the 2024 Pacific...

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan pro-independence leader has condemned the "sadistic brutality" of Indonesian soldiers in a torture video and called for an urgent...

Pacific Media Watch Editorial staff at Australia's public broadcaster ABC have again registered a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson and senior...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism...

Democracy Now! Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Democracy Now! to discuss US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is...

RNZ Pacific The union representing Television New Zealand staff is calling on the public to join a campaign protesting the broadcaster's plans to axe programmes...

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over...

Pacific Media Watch The Israeli army has raided dozens of homes in the West Bank and detained 20 Palestinians, including two women -- journalist Bushra...

Pacific Media Watch The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is "nothing short of horrifying" -- Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and...

Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust...

The National in Port Moresby The Papua New Guinea government plans to introduce laws to curb free speech and freedom of the press, former prime...

Pacific Media Watch The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports...

Pacific Media Watch Union members at the Australian public broadcaster ABC have today passed a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson for...

By Ronald Toito’ona and Charley Piringi in Honiara China’s interference and moves to control the media in the Solomon Islands have been exposed in leaked...

Pacific Media Watch Israel has arrested a total of 38 Palestinian journalists since the start of its war with Hamas on October 7 and is...

Pacific Media Watch Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil this week to the more than 100 journalists -- most of...