Tag: Press Freedom
King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific
By Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News
Flipped "back in time” is how New Zealand author, journalist and media educator Dr David Robie describes the crisis...
The Daily Blog hacked – NZ’s most important left media outlet...
Pacific Media Watch
The Daily Blog, New Zealand's most important leftwing website of news, views and analyses at the heart of the country's most conservative...
Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards
Pacific Media Watch
Pro-Palestinian protesters dressed in blue "press" vests tonight staged a vigil calling on New Zealand journalists to show solidarity with the media...
Journalists challenge PNG government over ‘media control’ policy
By Stephen Wright of BenarNews
The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organisations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week...
RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory...
Pacific journalists are world’s ‘eyes and ears’ on climate crisis, says...
By Kaneta Naimatu in Suva
Journalists in the Pacific region play an important role as the “eyes and ears on the ground” when it comes...
Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis
By Kamna Kumar in Suva
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna stressed the importance of media freedom and its link to the climate and environmental...
Israeli ban on Al Jazeera slammed as a ‘criminal and dangerous’...
Asia Pacific Report
Haggai Matar, executive director of the independent +972 Magazine, has described the Tel Aviv government’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in...
Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award
Asia Pacific Report
About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets
By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews
Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with...
APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...
RSF concern over whereabouts of Gazan journalist in Al Shifa hospital...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog RSF (Reporters Without Borders) has appealed for information about the "disappearance" of Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan.
She...
ABC editorial staff call for content chief to resign over Gaza...
Pacific Media Watch
Editorial staff at Australia's public broadcaster ABC have again registered a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson and senior...
Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism...
Israeli army detains female journalist, activist in West Bank raids
Pacific Media Watch
The Israeli army has raided dozens of homes in the West Bank and detained 20 Palestinians, including two women -- journalist Bushra...
War on Gaza: Palestinian journalism has been decimated with impunity
Pacific Media Watch
The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is "nothing short of horrifying" -- Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and...
JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to...
Pacific Media Watch
The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust...
O’Neill warns PNG about laws to crack down on media, freedom...
The National in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinea government plans to introduce laws to curb free speech and freedom of the press, former prime...
Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award
Pacific Media Watch
The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports...
ABC staff ‘have lost confidence’ in boss in defending public trust...
Pacific Media Watch
Union members at the Australian public broadcaster ABC have today passed a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson for...
‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan,...
By Ronald Toito’ona and Charley Piringi in Honiara
China’s interference and moves to control the media in the Solomon Islands have been exposed in leaked...