Pacific Media Watch

Pacific Media Watch The global peak journalism body has condemned the targeting, harassment, and censorship by lobby groups of Australian journalists for reporting critically on...

By Anthea Grape in Manila Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is vital to nation-building. It empowers Filipinos to make informed decisions by fostering critical thinking,...

COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto of G News This morning New Zealand Herald columnist and political commentator Matthew Hooton was paid to write an article justifying...

One Path Network The National Press Club of Australia has abruptly cancelled a scheduled address by renowned journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Chris Hedges, who...

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett, University of Technology Sydney Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza...

Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted...

Israel is boosting its Zionist influence in the Pacific. Australia has exposed such media influence. The media in the Philippines is now under scrutiny....

Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets...

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists...

Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet...

ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The recent internal report on RNZ’s performance, variously described as “scathing” and “blunt”...

By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian...

Pacific Media Watch An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel's trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies...

By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as...

Pacific Media Watch A media studies analyst has condemned the latest deadly attack by Israel on journalists in Gaza and challenged Western media over the...

By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb...

Pacific Media Watch Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality...

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and...

By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of Pacific Media Network As Israel expands its relationships with Pacific Island nations, an activist is criticising the region for its “dreadful...

By Andrew Mathieson Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji -- in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity -- to hold the greater Pacific region...

RNZ News New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for "immediate and independent" foreign media access to Gaza. Earlier this month,...

Pacific Media Watch “Speak Up Kōrerotia” -- a radio show centred on human rights issues -- has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in...