Pacific Media Watch
Christchurch terror in context: Media as accessory to the crime?
Listening Post's report on Islamophobia in the Western media. Video: Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
It has now been almost two weeks since 50 people...
RSF condemns China’s ‘global press freedom threat’ in new report
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In a report titled China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order, the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has...
How Christchurch mosque assault has made a mark on NZ media
By Colin Peacock, editor of Mediawatch NZ
The attack in Christchurch has forced New Zealand news media to rethink the way they work, whose voices...
Paul Buchanan: Soul-searching NZ must ‘own’ this terrorist attack
ANALYSIS: By Dr Paul G Buchanan
The terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques this month is a watershed moment in New Zealand history.
In the days,...
New Zealander’s image of togetherness chosen for Time magazine
By Tim Miller of the Otago Daily Times
A former Dunedin artist has been chosen to illustrate the cover of Time magazine's international edition for...
Former PMW reporter talks to SA media on mosque massacre
Rahul Bhattarai talks to eNCA News of South Africa live from New Zealand. Video: eNCA News
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Former Pacific Media Watch project reporter...
All New Zealand asked Trump for was ‘love’ for Muslims
Stephen Colbert's satirical programme The Late Show featured NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's exchange with US President Donald Trump. Video: CBS The Late Show
Pacific...
Christchurch terror attacks: NZ advertisers to pull social media ads
By RNZ
More than 50 New Zealand companies are considering pulling ads from Facebook because it allowed a livestream of the Christchurch massacre last Friday.
Some...
Pacific Media Watch student editor takes up key news role
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An Auckland freelance journalist, Michael Andrew, who is completing his postgraduate journalism diploma at Auckland University of Technology, has been appointed...
Leading Tahiti anti-nuclear crusader Roland Oldham dies
Television tribute to Roland Oldham in French. Video:Polynésie la 1ère
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's leading advocate for the victims of France's nuclear weapons tests has...
Filipino groups denounce cyberattacks against independent media
By Mong Palatino in Manila
Several media groups in the Philippines marked the World Day Against Cyber Censorship this week by holding a protest to...
Hearts and minds – how new media ‘cold war’ impacts on...
By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch
Seven senior New Zealand journalists spent a week in Hawai'i late last year and produced just one story between...
Activist’s arrest shows Widodo ‘no different’ from Suharto, says AJI
By Fitria Chusna Farisa in Jakarta
The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has called on the Indonesian police to release Jakarta State University lecturer Robertus...
‘Not a big deal’ claim police, rejecting UN call for Papua...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua Regional Police public information head Assistant Superintendent Suryadi Diaz is asking all parties not to dramatise or make a big...
West Papuan campaigners welcome UN call to halt Indonesian torture
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The Free West Papua Campaign has welcomed the call by the United Nation’s human rights experts for "Prompt and impartial investigations...
Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives
In Gangsters in Paradise - Deportees of Tonga, Vice embeds with four Tongan nationals who have been sent back to where they were born...
Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival
The 2018 Bearing Witness Project short documentary - Banabans of Rabi.
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Banabans of Rabi - A Story of Survival, a short documentary...
Papuans plan to boycott Indonesian elections, say independence activists
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West Papuan people will not take part in Indonesia's 2019 presidential and legislative elections, say the Indonesian People's Front for West...
Indonesian smear campaigns target Jokowi ahead of presidential election
By Ainur Rohmah in Jakarta
Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country’s general election just two months away...
Timorese journalists protest outside Philippine embassy over Ressa arrest
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Timor-Leste Press Union has protested in front of the Philippine Embassy in the capital Dili in solidarity with indicted Journalist...
‘Don’t be silent,’ says defiant Maria Ressa in fight for press...
Rappler publisher condemns Duterte government's "abuse of power". Video: ABS-CBN
By Iris Gonzales in Manila
The Philippine press has seen many dark days but Maria Ressa’s...
Philippine website editor Maria Ressa held on ‘cyber libel’ charge
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Paris-based global media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned yesterday's arrest of Maria Ressa, editor of the independent...