Pacific Media Watch

Pacific Media Watch Trump administration officials barred two Associated Press (AP) reporters from covering White House events this week because the US-based independent news agency...

In its eagerness to appease supporters of Israel, the media is happy to ride roughshod over due process and basic rights. It’s damaging Australia's...

By Lagi Keresoma in Apia The Miss Pacific Islands Pageant (MPIP) Committee has finally issued a statement -- 5 days after damaging social media attacks...

Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s civic space has been rated as "obstructed" by the Civicus Monitor and the country has been criticised for pushing...

Pacific Media Watch Israeli police have confiscated hundreds of books with Palestinian titles or flags without understanding their contents in a draconian raid on a...

RNZ Pacific Marshall Islands Journal editor Giff Johnson says US President Donald Trump's decision on aid "is an opening for anybody else who wants to...

MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter By the time US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on China and Canada last Monday which could kickstart...

Pacific Media Watch President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress...

A investigative journalism programme -- Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) -- that has pubiished exposes about the South Pacific and has not...

COMMENTARY: By Eman Mohammed On December 28, 21-year-old student journalist Shatha Al-Sabbagh was assassinated near her home in Jenin. Her family accused snipers from the...

Asia Pacific Report A defiant Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair, John Minto, has appealed to Aotearoa New Zealand to stand with the "majority...

COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent There has rightly been much debate and analysis over New Zealand’s decision to review the aid it gives...

Pacific Media Watch A West Papuan advocacy group is calling for an urgent international inquiry into allegations that Indonesian security forces have used the chemical...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Watching footage of Palestinian parliamentarian and hostage Khalida Jarrar emerge from Israeli captivity was jarring -- a far, muffled cry from...

NBC News in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's cabinet has officially given the green light to the PNG media policy, which will soon be presented...

This article was written before The Electronic Intifada’s founding editor Ali Abunimah was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday afternoon for "speaking up for Palestine"....

Pacific Media Watch Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech...

By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson For Doddy Morris, a journalist with the Vanuatu Daily Post, the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Vanuatu last month on December...

Pacific Media Watch With a ceasefire in force in Gaza for a week, the Israeli army and settlers have intensified their attacks against Palestinians in...

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament and is liable to prosecution -- not that government will lift a finger to enforce...

By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region 35 years ago -- on 24 January 1990, the same...

Pacific Media Watch The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by...