Tag: Press Freedom
Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...
Wansolwara News
The University of the South Pacific (USP) Journalism Programme has marked the 2026 World Press Freedom Day this year in partnership with the...
Tongan police investigate journalist threatened at gunpoint after gang-related report
RNZ Pacific
A female journalist in Tonga has been threatened at gunpoint following the broadcast of a news story about an Australian criminal deportee serving...
Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...
By Khalia Strong of PMN News
Fiji has shot up the world rankings for press freedom but the victory feels hollow as journalists across the...
Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index
By Stefan Armbruster of Pasifika TV
Fiji has recorded a dramatic jump in its media freedom rating to be in the top 25 nations globally...
Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has recorded the biggest improvement in the Pacific in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index, rising to 24th out of 180 countries.
The...
FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...
Fijian Media Association
Three years after the lifting of draconian media laws under which Fiji’s media industry operated, and even with significant improvements in the...
Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF
By Anish Chand in Suva
Fiji’s rise in the latest global press freedom rankings is being credited to improved media conditions following key political and...
Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists
As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and...
Targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil bombed and left to die by...
By Jeremy Loffredo of Drop Site News
Prominent Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil has been killed in what appeared to be a targeted attack by the...
Owen Jones: At The Telegraph, journalist support for Israel is now...
COMMENTARY: By Owen Jones
Britain's Daily Telegraph is being acquired by a German-based media giant -- and now its journalists are formally expected to support...
Gaza’s young, untrained journalists step up to document Israel’s war crimes
Pacific Media Watch
At least 262 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war against the besieged enclave, marking one...
‘Heinous’ Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in genocidal...
Pacific Media Watch
Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, the Qatari television news channel...
USP academic calls for better press freedom protections in face of...
By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva
Public trust in Fiji’s mainstream media has significantly declined, a journalism academic has told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, citing...
How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives
COMMENTARY: By Majdoline Al-Shammouri in Beirut
In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that all the countries agree on "controlling"...
‘He will never be replaced’ – tributes flow for ‘fearless’ Vanuatu...
OBITUARY: RNZ Pacific
Tributes are pouring in from across the region for "fearless" and "formidable" Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry, who died on Wednesday.
McGarry, 62, fell...
China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector
SPECIAL REPORT: Reporters Without Borders
Since the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations with China in 2019, the Pacific country has become a strategic arena for...
MCPNG and UN hold media freedom talks in wake of attacks...
Pacific Media Watch
The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has met the leadership of the Media Council of PNG to advance collaboration in support...
How Israel is censoring damage reporting about the war on Iran
SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine
Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on...
War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...
Pacific Media Watch
Journalists in Iran have been working amid hostile air strikes for almost a week since the start of the US-Israeli offensive while...
PNG Media Council calls for police probe into alleged assault over...
Pacific Media Watch
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (MCPNG) has condemned an alleged assault on a senior female reporter and called on the...
‘We returned from hell’ – CPJ’s report on Palestinian journalists tortured...
Pacific Media Watch
Palestinian journalist Ahmed Abdel Aal remembers the moment the ear-splitting music started. For five days, he said, he was held blindfolded in...
Sydney police brutality over Herzog – an open letter to Premier...
OPEN LETTER: By James Ricketson
Dear Premier Chris Minns
I was arrested outside the Sydney Town Hall on Monday evening charged with assaulting a police officer.
During...

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