Pacific Media Watch
The Electronic Intifada: Bringing Israeli genocide perpetrators to justice
This article was written before The Electronic Intifada’s founding editor Ali Abunimah was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday afternoon for "speaking up for Palestine"....
Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom
Pacific Media Watch
Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech...
Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath...
By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
For Doddy Morris, a journalist with the Vanuatu Daily Post, the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Vanuatu last month on December...
The Listening Post: ‘They have been targeting media – anybody who...
Pacific Media Watch
With a ceasefire in force in Gaza for a week, the Israeli army and settlers have intensified their attacks against Palestinians in...
News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change...
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament and is liable to prosecution -- not that government will lift a finger to enforce...
RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the...
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager
RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region 35 years ago -- on 24 January 1990, the same...
Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage
Pacific Media Watch
The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by...
Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace,...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Celebration time. Some Palestinian prisoners have been released. A mother reunited with her daughter. A young mother reunited with her babies.
Still...
Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current
New Zealand's One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the Western...
John Minto: A triumph of the human spirit
LETTER: By John Minto
With the temporary ceasefire agreement, we should take our hats off to the Palestinian people of Gaza who have withstood a...
Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book
Pacific Media Watch
Four researchers and authors from the Asia-Pacific region have provided diverse perspectives on the media in a new global book on intercultural...
‘Journalism is not a crime’: Gaza reporter slams international press as...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman.
We turn now to Gaza, where Israel’s assault on...
‘Humiliated, attacked, beaten’: How Palestinian Authority assaults West Bank refugee camp...
While mediator Qatar says a Gaza ceasefire deal is at the closest point it has been in the past few months -- adding that...
‘In my early days, I was reckless,’ says Pultizer winner Manny...
By Ria de Borja in Manila
For 30 years, Filipino journalist Manny “Bok” Mogato covered the police and defence rounds, and everything from politics to...
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers –...
An open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in response to the social media giant's decision to abandon its fact-checking regime protection in the...
‘Crime against journalism’: Gaza journalists slam PA’s Al Jazeera ban
By Maram Humaid in Deir el-Balah, Gaza
Journalists gathered at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital expressed outrage and confusion about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) decision to...
CPJ condemns ban on Al Jazeera – network decries bid to...
Pacific Media Watch
The New York-based global media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a decision by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Al Jazeera’s...
Killing of five Gaza journalists by Israel strike highlights weak NZ...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
My message today is really simple but brutal.
Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...
Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media...
Pacific Media Watch
Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in a new Israeli strike near a hospital in central Gaza after four reporters were killed...
Publisher tells of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s identity
By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva
Veteran journalist and editor Stanley Simpson has spoken about the enduring power of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s...
Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori journalism intern at RNZ News
From being the headline to creating them, Moana Maniapoto has walked a rather...
Rabuka reveals details of 1987 coup navy ‘secret weapons mission’
By Litia Cava, FBC News multimedia journalist
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has revealed how arms and ammunition used to conduct the 1987 military coup...