Tag: Press Freedom
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"....
Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom
Pacific Media Watch
Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech...
The Listening Post: ‘They have been targeting media – anybody who...
Pacific Media Watch
With a ceasefire in force in Gaza for a week, the Israeli army and settlers have intensified their attacks against Palestinians in...
Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage
Pacific Media Watch
The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by...
Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current
New Zealand's One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the Western...
Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based world media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for international journalists to be given open access to the besieged...
‘Journalism is not a crime’: Gaza reporter slams international press as...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman.
We turn now to Gaza, where Israel’s assault on...
‘Crime against journalism’: Gaza journalists slam PA’s Al Jazeera ban
By Maram Humaid in Deir el-Balah, Gaza
Journalists gathered at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital expressed outrage and confusion about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) decision to...
Killing of five Gaza journalists by Israel strike highlights weak NZ...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
My message today is really simple but brutal.
Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...
Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media...
Pacific Media Watch
Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in a new Israeli strike near a hospital in central Gaza after four reporters were killed...
Publisher tells of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s identity
By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva
Veteran journalist and editor Stanley Simpson has spoken about the enduring power of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s...
Al Jazeera cameraman third journalist killed by Israel in Gaza in...
Pacific Media Watch
An Israeli air strike has killed Palestinian photojournalist Ahmed Al-Louh and five Palestinian Civil Defence workers in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp as...
RSF says global attacks on journalists ‘alarming’, Gaza ‘most dangerous’ and...
Pacific Media Watch
The global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has revealed an "alarming intensification of attacks on journalists" in its 2024 annual...
RSF condemns assassination of Cambodian environmental journalist
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned the assassination of Cambodian investigative environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng who has...
Hundreds of Israel lobbyists ‘writing America’s news’, reveals new probe
Pacific Media Watch
Hundreds of former employees of Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, StandWithUs and CAMERA are working in top newsrooms across the United...
NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament
By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter
An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand's national apology to survivors of abuse in care has...
New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press...
ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti, City St George's, University of London and Waqas Ejaz, University of Oxford
Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But...
Palau Media Council condemns lawsuit as ‘assault on press freedom’
Pacific Media Watch
The Palau Media Council has condemned a political lawsuit against the publisher of the Island Times as an "assault on press freedom"...