Pacific Media Watch

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...

EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer They say the march toward authoritarian rule begins with one simple act: taking control of the narrative and silencing the...

By Renate Rivers of PMN News Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt has banned the country's only daily newspaper, the Samoa Observer, from all...

Pacific Media University of the South Pacific's Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, who edited the inaugural edition of Pacific Media journal along with co-editor Dr...

Bob Howarth 6 November 1944-13 November 2025 OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine In June 2000, I travelled to Port...

Pacific Media Watch Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão has paid tribute to the “courageous and determined” contribution of Australian journalist Robert Domm to...

Pacific Media Watch The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in...

Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut today with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future,...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists...

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...

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...

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...

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: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account,...

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...

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...

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...

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”...

This lecture "Requiem for Gaza" was delivered to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia in Adelaide after journalist Chris Hedges'...