Tag: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

Pacific Media Watch Israel is the world’s second-worst offender after Haiti in letting the murder of journalists go unpunished, according to a new report from...

Talamua Media The Commonwealth Heads of Government adopted the Commonwealth Principles on Freedom of Expression and the Role of the Media in Good Governance at...

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne In February 2017, as Donald Trump took office, The Washington Post adopted the first slogan in its...

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Taipei It was a heady week for the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) -- celebration...

Pacific Media Watch Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel’s declaration that six...