Tag: Independent media
APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...
Mehdi Hasan on genocide in Gaza and the silencing of Palestinian...
Democracy Now!
Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Democracy Now! to discuss US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is...
JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to...
Pacific Media Watch
The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust...
‘I feel vindicated’ – Vanuatu Daily Post in landmark work permit...
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Trading Post Ltd, the owner of the Vanuatu Daily Post newspaper, BUZZ FM96 and other...
Fiji to scrap ‘dead in water’ media law with pledge to...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The Fiji government has announced it will repeal the controversial Media Industry Development Act...
Information chief defends PNG’s draft policy as ‘strengthening’ media
The National in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's draft National Media Development Policy is not intended to give the government power to control the media...
Journalism at crossroads but must ‘stick to principles’ to regain trust,...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific Report
It has been a decade since The Daily Blog (TDB) came into being informing all and...
New media freedom advocacy institute formed in Marshall Islands
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The first media freedom advocacy group has formed in the Marshall Islands. Organisers this week were in the initial phase of...
RSF refers Russian strikes on four Ukrainian TV towers for ICC...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor about Russian strikes on four radio...
The Pacific Newsroom – the virtual ‘kava bar’ news success story
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi
October 2021 was a horror month for Facebook as the headlines screamed “Facebook under fire” which started with the social...
Perceptions over NZ’s public interest journalism project – saint or sinner?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report
“Public interest journalism plays a crucial role in promoting the quality of public life, protecting individuals from...
Arrests, torture, beatings and jail – inside Myanmar’s daily junta reality
SPECIAL REPORT: By Phil Thornton
The military’s brutality is a daily reality for all the people of Myanmar. As Myanmar’s army prepares to deploy and...
Asia Pacific Report freshened with new student roles, independent journalism
JEANZ News
Professor David Robie, founding director of the AUT Pacific Media Centre, has relaunched Asia Pacific Report as an independent Pacific affairs and analysis...
Kasun Ubayasiri: How will ruthless billionaire posturing by Rupert and Zuckerberg...
COMMENT: By Kasun Ubayasiri in Brisbane
It has indeed been a few strange days for Australian news media. Apparently, monopolies are bad if they are...
Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Nine Entertainment and News Corporation are wrong to say Google and Facebook have destroyed their business models by stealing content, according...
RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested...
Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered "live" in Auckland and "virtually" from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their...
Crispin Maslog: Remembering Martial Law – courageous journalism lessons
REWIND: By Crispin Maslog
Filipinos under 48 today were not yet born when Martial Law was imposed on the Philippines by the late and unlamented...
#HoldTheLine campaign launched to back Maria Ressa, independent media
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Sixty press freedom groups and civil society organisations, journalism institutions, filmmakers, and other supporters have formed a coalition in support of...
How a copyboy became Timor-Leste’s lone ranger foreign correspondent
By Bob Howarth in Dili
With the rapid spread of the dreaded Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic across the Pacific and Asia many people naturally seek online...
‘Media for democracy’ – Pacific Media Watch’s 2019 freedom feature
Journalist Sri Krishnamurthi's media freedom video.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The theme for the 26th celebration of the World Press Freedom Day this year is “Media...
‘NZ is waking up to our … spectrum of colours’, says...
Journalist Sri Krishnamurthi's video interview with Alistar Kata.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Alistar Kata is uniquely placed to talk about diversity in New Zealand media newsrooms.
Not...