Tag: Journalists

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed...

Pacific Media Watch One of the many casualties of the Trump administration's crackdown on "soft power" that enabled many democratic media and truth to power...

By Susan Edmunds, RNZ News money correspondent The Aotearoa New Zealand union representing many of NZME's journalists says it is "deeply worried" by a billionaire's...

Pacific Media Watch A New Zealand-based community education provider, Dark Times Academy, has had a US Embassy grant to deliver a course teaching Pacific Islands...

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog RSF (Reporters Without Borders) has appealed for information about the "disappearance" of Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan. She...

By Cam Wilson in Sydney A senior Nine staff journalist has resigned and readers are angrily cancelling their newspaper subscriptions as Sydney Morning Herald and...

Pacific Media Watch Israeli occupation forces are intentionally targeting Palestinian journalists in the besieged Gaza Strip, media outlets warned after three reporters were killed Tuesday...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi -- an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years --...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto No government likes to be called out for human rights abuses and it’s uncomfortable to do so, particularly when the abuser...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist The Fiji government is signalling that it will not completely tear down the country's...

Airstrikes ordered against civilian targets, destruction of thousands of buildings, millions displaced, nearly 3000 civilians murdered, more than 13,000 jailed, the country’s independent media...

RNZ Pacific Murder charges have been reinstated against the man suspected of killing French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud, known as "JPK" -- his byline, who...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...

ANALYSIS: By Danilo Arana Arao in Manila Upon assuming the Philippines presidency on 30 June 2022, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr -- the only son and...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis New Zealand's Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, has given government agency media teams a well-deserved kick up the fundamental over some of their...

ANALYSIS: By Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney “These are dark times for our nation”, former US President Donald Trump declared when he announced his mansion...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A media freedom advocacy group has called on New Zealand to end its silence over the Julian Assange case in what...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Israel's fatal shooting of leading Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh as she covered clashes in the West Bank city of...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Groups representing journalists around the world have expressed concern that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's move to buy Twitter would damage media...

ANALYSIS: By Sue Ahearn As China seeks greater influence in the South Pacific, its manipulation of local news outlets is having a serious impact on...

OBITUARY: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Micronitor News and Printing Company founder Joe Murphy moved the goal...