Tag: Media Freedom

Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, last Sunday has triggered protests around the world, including journalists in Israel. He left behind...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the...

Pacific Media Watch Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military's "disgraceful tactic" to cover up war crimes in...

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau. We watched...

Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al...

Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they...

By Jamie Wiseman The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined calls for urgent action to halt the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza as global news...

COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim "If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds." This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a...

By Isaac Nellist of Green Left Magazine Australian-Lebanese journalist and commentator Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case win against the public broadcaster ABC in the Federal...

Pacific Media Watch Israel targeted one of the buildings of the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Tehran on the fourth day of...

Pacific Media Watch More than 150 press freedom advocacy groups and international newsrooms have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists...

Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa's criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged...

COMMENTARY: By Saige England in Ōtautahi Christchurch "RNZ is failing in its duty to inform the public of an entirely preventable humanitarian catastrophe." Tautoko to Jeremy...

By Devin Watkins of Vatican News Only four days have passed since his election to the papacy, and Pope Leo XIV has made it a...

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show looking at Israel’s ongoing targeting of Palestinian journalists. A recent report by the Costs of War Project...

By Niko Ratumaimuri in Suva World Press Freedom Day is not just a celebration of the vital role journalism plays -- it is also a...

Pacific Media Watch Barely hours after being guest speaker at the University of the South Pacific's annual World Press Freedom Day event this week, Fiji...

Talamua Online News Samoa has dropped in its media and information freedom world ranking from 22 in 2024 to 44 in 2025 in the latest...

Pacific Media Watch To mark the release of the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) partnered with the agency The Good Company...

By Anish Chand Entities and individuals that thrived under the previous government with public relations contracts now want to be part of the media or...