Pacific Media Watch

RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has joined the debate about the haka that stunned Parliament and the nation last week, defending the...

By Georgia Brown, Queensland University of Technology Fijian newsrooms are under pressure to adapt as audiences shift away from traditional media such as newspapers, radio,...

Pacific Media Watch A media studies professor at Qatar's Doha Institute for Graduate Studies has completed empirical studies examining Western media coverage of Israel’s war...

RNZ News A group representing local councils in Aotearoa New Zealand is calling for the Local Democracy Reporting programme to be expanded after the media...

Pacific Media Watch As thousands take to the streets this week to "honour" the country's 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the largest daily newspaper New Zealand...

Pacific Media Watch Hundreds of former employees of Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, StandWithUs and CAMERA are working in top newsrooms across the United...

ABC Radio Australia and RNZ You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. But what do you know about...

By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand's national apology to survivors of abuse in care has...

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel has stepped up systematic attacks on journalists and media infrastructure since the...

ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti, City St George's, University of London and Waqas Ejaz, University of Oxford Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis This morning, I am afraid. I am very afraid. I fear that by the time I go to bed democracy in the...

Pacific Media Watch The editorial board of The New York Times has demolished Donald Trump in a single paragraph calling on readers to vote for...

By Catrin Gardiner, Queensland University of Technology In the middle of the Pacific, Fiji journalists are transforming their practice, as newsrooms around Suva are requiring...

By Charlene Lanyon in Suva A high-level, seven-member delegation from People’s Daily, China's most influential newspaper, has been hosted by the University of the South...

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Jonathan Cook...

Pacific Media Watch The Palau Media Council has condemned a political lawsuit against the publisher of the Island Times as an "assault on press freedom"...

By Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews Palau’s largest newspaper is being sued for defamation by the company of President Surangel Whipps Jr's father, just days ahead...

Pacific Media Watch Another Palestinian journalist, Bilal Rajab, of al-Quds al-Youm TV channel, has been killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, confirms...

Pacific Media Watch Before the formation of the Israel Defence Forces in 1948, there were three underground Zionist militias -- The Haganah, the Irgun and...

By Teagan Laszlo, Queensland University of Technology For Samantha Magick, journalism isn't just a job. It is a lifelong commitment to storytelling, advocacy, and empowering...

Pacific Media Watch Israel is the world’s second-worst offender after Haiti in letting the murder of journalists go unpunished, according to a new report from...