Tag: Investigative journalism
Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear...
RNZ Pacific
A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons...
Outcry over signs of upheaval at Pacific Media Centre
Auckland University of Technology has denied claims that the Pacific Media Centre is being dumped or sidelined.
The centre's recently retired director Professor David Robie...
The Moruroa Files – how cutting edge science, secret documents and...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Cutting edge nuclear science, a trove of declassified documents, and investigative journalism have exposed the human and environmental impacts of French...
The Intan Jaya conflict 3: New autonomous region, new conflict
SPECIAL REPORT: By Victor Mambor in Jayapura – final article of a three-part investigation into the Pastor Yeremia Zanambani assassination
Intan Jaya district in Papua,...
Former Rappler reporter Carmela Fonbuena is new head of PCIJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has named former Rappler reporter and book author Carmela Fonbuena as its next executive...
Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi...
By Katarina Williams, a senior reporter of Stuff
Stuff has introduced a new company charter with Te Tiriti o Waitangi at its core, after a...
Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for...
Four Chinese citizen journalists still missing after investigating covid-19
France 24 Focus report on the Chinese citizen journalists still missing after investigating Covid-19 in Wuhan.
By France 24
Since coming to power in 2012, Chinese...
Motorcycle hitmen kill Philippine reporter who covered mining
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) suspects that a journalist gunned down yesterday in Sorsogon province, in the...
AJF slams ‘misguided’ Malaysian investigation into Al Jazeera report
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom (AJF) has called on the Malaysian government to desist its current investigation of Al Jazeera English...
Operation Burnham: Former minister Mapp ‘forgot’ about civilian casualties
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ Political Reporter
The former Minister of Defence has admitted he "completely forgot" about a report which stated civilian casualties were possible...
Malaysia’s media crackdowns driven by a shaky, sensitive government
Al Jazeera’s documentary on the plight of migrant workers during covid-19 lockdown.
ANALYSIS: By Ross Tapsell, of the Australian National University
The recent police interrogations of...
NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark
INDEPTH: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ News investigative reporter, with contributor John Daniell
New Zealand has lost some of its independence within the Five Eyes intelligence...
AJF renews call for media freedom law while welcoming Smethurst move
Pacific Media Watch
The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom has welcomed the decision by the Australian Federal Police to drop charges against Newscorp journalist Annika Smethurst...
RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government to end the "absurd situation" in which Australian investigative journalist...
NZ bars Australian investigative journalist working for Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Watch
An award-winning journalist whose reporting on a murder and corruption investigation got her deported from Malaysia has been prevented from boarding a...
Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ Pacific media archive
A video made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pacific Journalism Review in 2014. Video: Sasya Wreksono/PMC
Pacific Media Watch
Tuwhera, the open access repository and...
Indonesia ‘arrests’ Mongabay editor – one month after first detaining...
Pacific Media Watch
Philip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the non-profit environmental science news outlet Mongabay, has been arrested for an alleged visa violation in...
Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals
By Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald in Sydney
In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New...
Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption
The Rappler video feed on the Ampatuan convictions last month.
For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in...
‘Spy’ agency involved in ABC raids, new documents show
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Newly released documents show that another government agency along with the Australian Federal Police was involved in the investigation that led...
Rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent journalist Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa and the Philippines "war on truth". Video: Al Jazeera's Witness
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
International human rights lawyers Amal Clooney and Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC...