Tag: Media Freedom
InsidePNG’s Sincha Dimara wins East-West ‘courage award’ for free press
Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinean journalist Sincha Dimara, news editor at the online publication InsidePNG, is one of seven recipients of this year's East-West...
In Canada, a pattern of police intimidation of freelance journalists is...
COMMENTARY: By Savanna Craig
On the morning of April 15, I headed to a branch of Scotiabank in downtown Montreal to cover a pro-Palestine protest....
Free media watchdog RSF mourns death of its secretary-general Christophe Deloire...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders global media freedom watchdog has announced that it is deeply saddened by the death of its secretary-general,...
Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on...
By Monika Singh in Suva
New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a...
Columbia Law Review website shut down over ‘censored’ article critical of...
Pacific Media Watch
The editorial board of the Columbia Law Review journal -- made up of faculty and alumni from the university’s law school --...
King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific
By Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News
Flipped "back in time” is how New Zealand author, journalist and media educator Dr David Robie describes the crisis...
Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui
Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies...
Footage of French forces officer kicking Kanak man in head surfaces...
Correction: An earlier version of this RNZ Pacific story published on 29 May 2024 attributed a statement from the French High Commission in New...
The Daily Blog hacked – NZ’s most important left media outlet...
Pacific Media Watch
The Daily Blog, New Zealand's most important leftwing website of news, views and analyses at the heart of the country's most conservative...
Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards
Pacific Media Watch
Pro-Palestinian protesters dressed in blue "press" vests tonight staged a vigil calling on New Zealand journalists to show solidarity with the media...
Journalists challenge PNG government over ‘media control’ policy
By Stephen Wright of BenarNews
The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organisations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week...
RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory...
Pacific journalists are world’s ‘eyes and ears’ on climate crisis, says...
By Kaneta Naimatu in Suva
Journalists in the Pacific region play an important role as the “eyes and ears on the ground” when it comes...
Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis
By Kamna Kumar in Suva
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna stressed the importance of media freedom and its link to the climate and environmental...
Israeli ban on Al Jazeera slammed as a ‘criminal and dangerous’...
Asia Pacific Report
Haggai Matar, executive director of the independent +972 Magazine, has described the Tel Aviv government’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in...
Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award
Asia Pacific Report
About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
New Caledonia’s women sit-in to support smeared Kanak journalist
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A women's union in New Caledonia has staged a sit-in protest this week to support senior...
Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets
By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews
Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with...
New Koi Tū future report calls for overhaul of outdated NZ...
Koi Tū
New Zealand cannot sit back and see the collapse of its Fourth Estate, the director of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures,...
Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll...
Pacific Media Watch
US President Joe Biden has spoken at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner in Washington in spite of protests over alleged "complicity"...
Journalists offered ‘radical’ solution to save part of Newshub, says Gower
RNZ News
Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...