Tag: Media Freedom

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Pacific Media Watch The Israeli army has raided dozens of homes in the West Bank and detained 20 Palestinians, including two women -- journalist Bushra...

Pacific Media Watch The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is "nothing short of horrifying" -- Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and...