New deal for journalism – RSF’s 11 steps to ‘reconstruct’ global...
Australia (ranked 29th) and New Zealand (ranked 16th) are cited as positive examples by Reporters Without Borders in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index...
‘Dead weight comes to mind’ when thinking about Gazan parents and...
World Media Freedom Day reflections of a protester
Yesterday, World Media Freedom Day, we marched to Television New Zealand in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to deliver...
Rabuka salutes Fiji media but warns against taking freedom for granted
By Anish Chand in Suva
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has paid tribute to all those working the media industry in his message to mark...
Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza
Asia Pacific Report
About 1000 pro-Palestinian protesters marked World Press Freedom Day -- May 3 -- today by marching on the public broadcaster Television New...
Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla...
Asia Pacific Report
A human rights agency has called for an investigation into the drone attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid ship Conscience with...
Australia ‘Islamic Caliphate’? Dark money and the 11th hour election propaganda...
An 11th-hour blitzkrieg for the Australian election 2025 tomorrow claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish...
NZ fares well in latest RSF press freedom index as authoritarian...
Pacific Media Watch
While Aotearoa New Zealand improved three places in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index -- up to 16th -- and most...
RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them...
Pacific Media Watch
After a year and a half of war, nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli army -- including at...
New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case...
Asia Pacific Report
The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...
Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals...
Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia...
NZ doctors defend nationwide strike action over recruitment
By Ruth Hill, RNZ News reporter
Striking senior New Zealand doctors have hit back at the Health Minister's attack on their union for "forcing" patients...
Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract...
Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more...
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake
Despite all the political machinations and hate towards the media coming from the president of the United States, I always thought...
Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA
Broadcasting Standards Authority
New Zealand's Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has upheld complaints about two 1News reports relating to violence around a football match in Amsterdam...
On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s...
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is...
Greenpeace slams deep sea mining bid as ‘rogue’ disregard for global...
By Reza Azam
Greenpeace has condemned an announcement by The Metals Company to submit the first application to commercially mine the seabed.
"The first application to...
50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to...
Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
Māori leaders urge UN to act stronger on NZ’s ‘regressive’ policies
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson in New York
Claire Charters, an expert in indigenous rights in international and constitutional law, has told the United Nations the...
French Minister Valls warns New Caledonia is ‘on a tightrope’, pleads...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls, who is visiting New Caledonia this week for the third...
Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel
By Anish Chand in Suva
Filipo Tarakinikini has been appointed as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel.
This has been stated on two official X, formerly Twitter, handle...