Tag: Press Freedom
250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...
Reporters Without Borders
In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets...
Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today
Pacific Media Watch
Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists...
NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet...
Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists
By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney
The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian...
Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza
By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as...
Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor
By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva
West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb...
Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media
Pacific Media Watch
Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality...
West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout
By Andrew Mathieson
Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji -- in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity -- to hold the greater Pacific region...
NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza
RNZ News
New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for "immediate and independent" foreign media access to Gaza.
Earlier this month,...
When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to...
Journalists like Anas al-Sharif who report the truth in Gaza to the world and are targeted by Israel deserve protection, not just sympathy.
COMMENTARY: By...
‘Will I make it back alive?’: Gaza journalists tell of being...
Pacific Media Watch
Palestinian journalists have long known Gaza to be the most dangerous place on earth for media workers, but Israel’s attack on a...
‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates
Pacific Media Watch
Union members of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) have made a video honouring the 242 Palestinian journalists and media workers...
‘If I die, I die steadfast … I bear witness …...
Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, last Sunday has triggered protests around the world, including journalists in Israel. He left behind...
Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif,...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the...
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime
Pacific Media Watch
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of...
RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military's "disgraceful tactic" to cover up war crimes in...
Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau.
We watched...
CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video...
Pacific Media Watch
The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al...
As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they...
Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists,...
By Jamie Wiseman
The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined calls for urgent action to halt the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza as global news...
Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers
By Isaac Nellist of Green Left Magazine
Australian-Lebanese journalist and commentator Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case win against the public broadcaster ABC in the Federal...
Attack on Iran’s state media – Israel bombs IRIB building in...
Pacific Media Watch
Israel targeted one of the buildings of the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Tehran on the fourth day of...