Tag: Press Freedom
Israel ‘deliberately targeting’ journalists in Gaza, says Australian author after latest...
Pacific Media Watch
Israel has been targeting journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory with more intensity since October 7, 2023, says Australian journalist and author...
Trump funding cuts on media impacts on independent Asia Pacific outlet
Pacific Media Watch
One of the many casualties of the Trump administration's crackdown on "soft power" that enabled many democratic media and truth to power...
With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list
While public opinion of Israel plummets, each day the genocide continues without significant repercussions only reinforces that they can ignore this opinion, writes Alex...
NZ protesters honour killed Gaza journalists – ‘targeted’ say press freedom...
Pacific Media Watch
Global press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza this week, who died in separate targeted airstrikes by...
Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine...
ANALYSIS: By Valerie A. Cooper, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Of all the contradictions and ironies of Donald Trump’s second presidency so...
‘Tell the world the truth,’ father tells dead son as Israel...
Pacific Media Watch
Global media freedom groups have condemned the Israeli occupation forces for assassinating two more Palestinian journalists covering the Gaza genocide, taking the...
Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out
Columbia Journalism School
Freedom of the press -- a bedrock principle of American democracy -- is under threat in the United States.
Here at Columbia University...
Former Filipino president Duterte’s arrest by the ICC – 20 journalists...
Pacific Media Watch
Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has recalled that 20 journalists were killed during the six-year Philippines presidency of...
Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME –...
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
New Zealand-based Canadian billionaire James Grenon owes the people of this country an immediate explanation of his intentions regarding media conglomerate...
Vanuatu mourns loss of iconic Pacific media pioneer Marc Neil-Jones
OBITUARY: By Terence Malapa in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s media community was in mourning today following the death on Monday of Marc Neil-Jones, founder of the...
Gavin Ellis: Amazon founder Bezos dims lights on democracy
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
Little more than a month into the new US presidency, The Washington Post’s owner dimmed the light on a motto that...
Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence
By Susan Edmunds, RNZ News money correspondent
The Aotearoa New Zealand union representing many of NZME's journalists says it is "deeply worried" by a billionaire's...
RSF slams ‘horrific conditions’ for journalists in Gaza in wake of...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed support for Gaza's media professionals and called on Israel to urgently lift...
US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid...
Pacific Media Watch
A New Zealand-based community education provider, Dark Times Academy, has had a US Embassy grant to deliver a course teaching Pacific Islands...
RSF demands White House restores AP’s access — and let press...
Pacific Media Watch
Trump administration officials barred two Associated Press (AP) reporters from covering White House events this week because the US-based independent news agency...
In the quest to appease Israel, the media undermine our basic...
In its eagerness to appease supporters of Israel, the media is happy to ride roughshod over due process and basic rights. It’s damaging Australia's...
Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free...
Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea’s civic space has been rated as "obstructed" by the Civicus Monitor and the country has been criticised for pushing...
Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos
Pacific Media Watch
President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress...
‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder...
A investigative journalism programme -- Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) -- that has pubiished exposes about the South Pacific and has not...
How the Palestine Authority and Israel are allies in silencing the...
COMMENTARY: By Eman Mohammed
On December 28, 21-year-old student journalist Shatha Al-Sabbagh was assassinated near her home in Jenin. Her family accused snipers from the...
PNG media policy ‘new era journalism’ draft law ready, says Masiu
NBC News in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's cabinet has officially given the green light to the PNG media policy, which will soon be presented...
The Electronic Intifada: Bringing Israeli genocide perpetrators to justice
This article was written before The Electronic Intifada’s founding editor Ali Abunimah was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday afternoon for "speaking up for Palestine"....