Pacific Media Watch
Making a stand against the global assault on press freedom
COMMENTARY: By Kasun Ubayasiri
We are gathered here to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance...
RSF expresses ‘regret’ over new Israeli Supreme Court delay on Gaza...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it "regrets" the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to grant the Tel...
NZ is now in sphere of Israeli influence – we risk...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
Why is Aotearoa New Zealand aiding Israel in any way shape or form with a liaison...
USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution...
Pacific Media Watch
A feature story authored by a student journalist highlighting the harm plastic pollution poses to human health in Fiji -- with risks...
Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation
MEDIAWATCH: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock
Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account,...
Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor
The New Arab
A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian...
Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media...
Pacific Media Watch
Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including...
NZ minister warned on possible risk over Israeli use of satellites
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand's Space Minister Judith Collins was warned just two months into Israel's war on Gaza that new BlackSky satellites being launched...
US rejects Hamas, UNRWA roles in Gaza as Israeli aid siege...
Pacific Media Watch
United States top diplomat Marco Rubio says the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “is not going to play any role”...
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...









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