Pacific Media Watch

COMMENTARY: By John Minto On June 3 last year, the Christchurch Press reported on an alleged assault in Christchurch on an IDF soldier on holiday...

By Agnese Boffano in London As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the...

COMMENTARY: By Viet Thanh Nguyen Is this the IDF in Gaza or the West Bank, or the US military in Afghanistan or Iraq, or ICE...

Pacific Media Watch Australia has canceled the visa of an Israeli influencer over his controversial verbal attacks against Islam, report news media. Home Affairs Minister Tony...

COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would...

COMMENTARY: By Kalafi Moala, publisher of Talanoa 'o Tonga As a journalist based in Tonga, I have chosen mostly to refrain from giving a view...

Reporters Without Borders A decisive hearing before the Israeli Supreme Court on whether the press will have independent access to Gaza is due to take...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the guilty verdict against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio whose...

Reporters Without Borders After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”. When it comes to press freedom, he has...

The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be...

By Jake Johnson US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela’s interim leadership will turn over to the United States as many as 50 million...

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political...

Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions...

TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81. He was...

Pacific Media Watch The Fijian Media Association (FMA) has demanded better police protection after a  journalist working for the state broadcaster Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC)...

Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has defended his decision to ban the Samoa Observer in response to a joint letter from the...

Pacific Media Watch Former Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari says Israel has “lost the war on social media,” describing the online space as the most...

By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo of the Samoa Observer Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt says international media are “in the dark” about the reasons behind his...

COMMENTARY: By Christopher Warren There’s been skillful work in journalism’s dark arts on display in the UK this past week, as the nasty British right-wing...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has called on the Samoan Prime Minister to lift the ban preventing the...

Pacific Media Watch Regional student journalists at the University of the South Pacific have condemned the Samoan Prime Minister's ban on the Samoa Observer newspaper,...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The editor of Samoa's only daily newspaper barred on Monday from accessing the Prime Minister's press conferences says media...