Pacific Media Watch
Vanuatu newspaper faces football coverage ban after ‘lesbianism’ headline
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist
Vanuatu's only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after...
Pacific broadcasters rethink news delivery in digital age
By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific reporter
Pacific broadcasters say the future of storytelling will depend on how well traditional media adapts to the fast moving...
How Israel is censoring damage reporting about the war on Iran
SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine
Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on...
Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
I came across this statement from an independent media source this week:
“The mainstream media is doing what it always does in...
The reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t...
Drop Site News
Right now, the United States and Israel are continuing their bombardment of Iran.
As the confirmed death toll climbs past 1330 and hospitals,...
PNG Media Council calls for police probe into alleged assault over...
Pacific Media Watch
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (MCPNG) has condemned an alleged assault on a senior female reporter and called on the...
Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new...
REVIEW: Jubi Media
Yasinta Moiwend was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier in West Papua.
The vessel carried...
West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco
Pacific Media Watch
A world premiere of a new documentary revealing the devastation of rainforest in the southeastern part of West Papua is one of...
Arrest and charges against British-Fijian national spark free speech concerns
RNZ Pacific
The arrest and detention of a dual Fijian and British national by Fiji's anti-corruption agency over the weekend has sparked concerns about freedom...
‘We returned from hell’ – CPJ’s report on Palestinian journalists tortured...
Pacific Media Watch
Palestinian journalist Ahmed Abdel Aal remembers the moment the ear-splitting music started. For five days, he said, he was held blindfolded in...
Israel could collapse before its centennial, warns retired Israeli general
By Zein Khalil
Retired Israeli Major-General Itzhak Brik has warned that Israel could collapse before reaching the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2048, citing...
Sydney police brutality over Herzog – an open letter to Premier...
OPEN LETTER: By James Ricketson
Dear Premier Chris Minns
I was arrested outside the Sydney Town Hall on Monday evening charged with assaulting a police officer.
During...
NSW Premier Minns’ police attack Muslims in prayer, peaceful Gaza protesters
By Pip Hinman in Gadigal Country/Sydney
NSW Premier Chris Minns is sounding even more defensive after videos of NSW police violence towards peaceful protesters in...
Caitlin Johnstone: The US keeps openly admitting it deliberately caused the...
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee this week, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly stated that the US deliberately caused a...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post guts staff in news cover...
The New Arab
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, began widespread layoffs this week that will drastically shrink the size of the...
Committee to Protect Journalists: The First Amendment is in peril
Sweeping cuts by one of most iconic investigative newspapers in the United States, The Washington Post, now owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, apply...
Pacific Media journal research added to Informit global database
Pacific Media Watch
A new Pacific Media research publication and outlet for academics and community advocates has now been added to the Informit database for...
‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the arrests of two American journalists for covering a protest at the Cities Church ...
Israeli Embassy and meddling in the NZ police and courts over...
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...
UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media
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...
The IDF in West Bank, the US in Afghanistan, or ICE?...
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...
Australia cancels visa of Israeli influencer over ‘hate speech’ against Islam
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...































































