Tag: Investigative journalism

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By RNZ Pacific Murder charges have been laid in the case of the French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud, who vanished in 1997. The accused are Couraud's...

OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA - Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived...

The Al Jazeera 101 East investigative report ... was the Christchurch mosque killer a "true lone wolf?" Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Quiet, picturesque New Zealand was...

COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Menzies of UTS Central News in Sydney As I stood out the front of the ABC's Sydney headquarters on Wednesday morning (June...

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne In their raids on media organisations, journalists and whistleblowers, the Australian Federal Police have shown themselves...

By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh of The University of Queensland The Australian Federal Police has this week conducted two high-profile raids on journalists who have exposed...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Journalists at Newsroom, the website that exposed environmental destruction by a Chinese property developer last month,  have won three reporting and...

By Christia Marie Ramos in Manila Philippine journalist, editor and publisher Maria Ressa has been named among Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the...