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News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change media laws

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January 26, 2025

RMIT journalism lecturer Tito Ambyo

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Media freedom slide in Australia ‘undermining’ ability to project democratic values

International Federation of Journalists

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Take action, don’t just offer words, MEAA tells Australia on media freedom

Damar Juniarto

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SAFEnet concerned Jakarta’s virtual police unit may create ‘Orwellian state’

Pacific Journalism Review researcher Justito Adipresto

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Indonesian media ‘favours state voice’ on West Papua, PJR research finds

Maria Ressa of Rappler

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#HoldTheLine Coalition welcomes new dismissal of cyber-libel charge against Rappler’s Maria...

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August 14, 2021

"All power belongs to the PNG people"

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PNG media policy ‘new era journalism’ draft law ready, says Masiu

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January 28, 2025

Staff leave the Newshub studio in central Auckland

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RNZ Mediawatch: Under the sinking lid from offshore tech companies

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December 15, 2024

Professor Michael Baker

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Otago University covid-19 experts copping abuse from anti-vaxxers

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January 6, 2022

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern delivering her valedictory speech to Parliament

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Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’

April 5, 2023

PINA president Kalafi Moala

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PINA on World Press Freedom Day – facing new and complex...

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May 5, 2025

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IFJ, MEAA condemn Facebook threat to ban Australian users sharing news

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September 3, 2020

Palestine solidarity activists, university staff and students facing repression will be encouraged by Antoinette Lattouf’s (inset) victory

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Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers

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June 27, 2025

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

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Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

June 5, 2022

Paul Néaoutyine

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France keeps December 12 date for New Caledonia independence vote

November 13, 2021

Fijian media stakeholders at the public consultation on the Media Ownership and Regulation Bill 2023 in Suva

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Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders

Pacific Media Watch -

March 27, 2023

News Corp, has long criticised university journalism education

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Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business...

February 4, 2022

Tokelau elections

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Tokelau declares 2023 elections result in spite of comms problems

January 27, 2023

Dr Shailendra Singh

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When mainstream media fails to hold truth to power, social media...

April 30, 2022

The Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem is full with shoppers

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Israeli police cite children’s ‘colouring book’ for Palestinian bookshop raid

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February 11, 2025

Former Fiji Health Minister Dr Neil Sharma

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Fiji ministers ‘held on tight leash’ – afraid to speak up,...

April 12, 2022

Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon

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NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in...

July 27, 2022

The colonnaded Widener Library looks out over Tercentenary Theatre at the heart of Harvard’s campus.

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Obama praises Harvard for ‘setting example’ to universities resisting Trump

April 15, 2025

Flames and a column of smoke in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa during 2024 riots

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New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at...

May 13, 2025

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The National welcomes government claim of no plan to control media

February 28, 2023

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Jakarta files appeal against court’s ruling on Papua internet blackout

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June 21, 2020

Media bias over Israel's war on Gaza

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Media watchdog calls out biased UK reporting over Israel’s war on...

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March 6, 2024

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

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David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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PNG families being evicted from Two-Mile settlement in Port Moresby

Crime

PNG govt defends using tear gas, force to evict illegal settlers...

The Toitū te Aroha diversity supporters march up Queen Street

Civil Society

Two protests in Auckland’s CBD monitored by police with cordons, road...

A home destroyed in tribal fighting in PNG's Highlands

Development

NZ pulls plug on $6.7m power project in Papua New Guinea...

Researcher Dr Sanimere Boladuadua

Culture

Pacific women scholars call for ‘radical shift’ in global health systems

EDITOR'S PICKS

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Analysis

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

US journalist Don Lemon reporting at the Cities Church in St Paul

Civil Society

‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering...

A state visit to Australia "presented to us not as diplomacy, not as geopolitics, not as a strategic signal, but as 'healing'"

Analysis

What is Israel’s Herzog doing in Australia – who invited him,...

IDF assault case . . . no follow-up in New Zealand media but Israeli news website reports "behind the scene" revelations

Decolonisation

Israeli Embassy and meddling in the NZ police and courts over...

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Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Analysis

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

US journalist Don Lemon reporting at the Cities Church in St Paul

Civil Society

‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering...

A state visit to Australia "presented to us not as diplomacy, not as geopolitics, not as a strategic signal, but as 'healing'"

Analysis

What is Israel’s Herzog doing in Australia – who invited him,...

IDF assault case . . . no follow-up in New Zealand media but Israeli news website reports "behind the scene" revelations

Decolonisation

Israeli Embassy and meddling in the NZ police and courts over...