Tag: Media Freedom
RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring...
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Taipei
It was a heady week for the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) -- celebration...
UN rapporteur condemns Israeli ‘death sentence’ claim trying to silence last...
Pacific Media Watch
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel’s declaration that six...
One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says...
Pacific Media Watch
This week marked the grim one-year anniversary of the surprise October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the beginning of the Israeli...
Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne
Until recently, Elon Musk was just a wildly successful electric car tycoon...
Media watchdog condemns Israel’s ‘harassment’ move to strip Al Jazeera journalists...
Pacific Media Watch
The International Press Institute (IPI) has strongly condemned the Israeli government’s recent decision to revoke the press passes of Al Jazeera journalists,...
Samoan journalists blast ‘ridiculous’ media restrictions at Commonwealth summit
By Harry Pearl
Restrictions on journalists covering an upcoming summit of Commonwealth nations in Samoa are “ridiculous” and at odds with a government that purportedly...
Samoa Observer: A slap across the face of media freedom
EDITORIAL: The Samoa Observer editorial board
The Samoan government’s attempt to control the media for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is a slap across...
Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers
By Brooklyn Self, Queensland University of Technology
Gendered online violence is silencing women journalists in Fiji, says Pacific media scholar Dr Shailendra Singh.
The harmful trend...
Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on...
Pacific Media Watch
A global media watchdog has expressed concern for the safety of an Al Jazeera reporter after false claims by the Israeli military.
The...
NZ Herald’s disclosure obligation to readers: Why are we waiting?
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
The New Zealand Herald and its publisher are failing to follow a golden rule: Engage with readers when they question your...
Philippine court strikes down order to shut online news site Rappler
By Gerard Carreon in Manila
An appeals court has struck down a 2018 government order that sought to shut down Rappler, an online Philippine news...
Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news,...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne
ABC chair Kim Williams has attracted considerable attention with his criticism of the broadcaster’s online news choices....
Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top
By Maxim Bock, Queensland University of Technology
Fiji journalist Felix Chaudhary recalls how the harassment began: “Initially, I was verbally warned to stop.”
“And not only...
Gaza killings and the death of Western journalism – why the...
COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Elmasry
On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were working when they were...
Pacific Journalism Review at 30 – a strong media legacy
COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Devpolicy Blog
Pacific Journalism Review (PJR) began life three decades ago in Papua New Guinea and recently celebrated a remarkable...
Al Jazeera journalist, cameraman killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi have been killed in an Israeli air attack on the Gaza...
Photojournalist targeted by Israeli army carries Olympic torch in Paris
Pacific Media Watch
A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon carried the Olympic torch in Paris this...
Facebook reportedly censors posts by Solomon Islands news outlet
RNZ Pacific
Facebook has reportedly temporarily blocked posts published by an independent online news outlet in Solomon Islands after incorrectly labelling its content as "spam".
In-Depth...
Polarised media undermines democracy, professor warns at Pacific media conference
By Kaneta Naimatau in Suva
In a democracy, citizens must critically evaluate issues based on facts. However in a very polarised society, people focus more...
In Australia, pro-Palestinian voices face a frenzy of Zionist McCarthyism
ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel-Fattah
Since 7 October 2023, across every profession and social realm in Australia -- teachers, students, doctors, nurses, academics, public servants, lawyers,...
A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva
Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific,...
When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share...
Pacific Media Watch
Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital of Suva. There was...