Tag: Media Freedom
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...
PNG court rejects sex case accused MP’s bid to gag media
By Boura Goru Kila in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinea court application to stop the news media from reporting on an alleged sexual offence...
APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...
Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold
Pacific Media Watch
The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...
Asia Pacific community and media research group goes online
Asia Pacific Report
A community-based Asia-Pacific network of academics, journalists and activists has now gone online with an umbrella website for its publications, current affairs...
RSF concern over whereabouts of Gazan journalist in Al Shifa hospital...
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...
Time to get in quick for the fast looming deadline for...
Asia Pacific Report
Time is running out for media people and academics wanting to tell their innovative story or present research at the 2024 Pacific...
Wenda condemns ‘sadistic brutality’ of Indonesian torture of Papuan – calls...
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan pro-independence leader has condemned the "sadistic brutality" of Indonesian soldiers in a torture video and called for an urgent...
ABC editorial staff call for content chief to resign over Gaza...
Pacific Media Watch
Editorial staff at Australia's public broadcaster ABC have again registered a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson and senior...
Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism...
Mehdi Hasan on genocide in Gaza and the silencing of Palestinian...
Democracy Now!
Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Democracy Now! to discuss US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is...
TVNZ job cuts: Public asked to join ‘save our stories’ protest...
RNZ Pacific
The union representing Television New Zealand staff is calling on the public to join a campaign protesting the broadcaster's plans to axe programmes...
Pacific journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts
Pacific Media Watch
Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over...
Israeli army detains female journalist, activist in West Bank raids
Pacific Media Watch
The Israeli army has raided dozens of homes in the West Bank and detained 20 Palestinians, including two women -- journalist Bushra...
War on Gaza: Palestinian journalism has been decimated with impunity
Pacific Media Watch
The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is "nothing short of horrifying" -- Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and...
JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to...
Pacific Media Watch
The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust...
O’Neill warns PNG about laws to crack down on media, freedom...
The National in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinea government plans to introduce laws to curb free speech and freedom of the press, former prime...
Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award
Pacific Media Watch
The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports...
ABC staff ‘have lost confidence’ in boss in defending public trust...
Pacific Media Watch
Union members at the Australian public broadcaster ABC have today passed a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson for...
‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan,...
By Ronald Toito’ona and Charley Piringi in Honiara
China’s interference and moves to control the media in the Solomon Islands have been exposed in leaked...
RSF condemns Israel over ‘silencing of media’ – 31 Palestinian journalists...
Pacific Media Watch
Israel has arrested a total of 38 Palestinian journalists since the start of its war with Hamas on October 7 and is...