Tag: Press Freedom

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...

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...

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...

Pacific Media Watch The Israeli army has raided dozens of homes in the West Bank and detained 20 Palestinians, including two women -- journalist Bushra...

Pacific Media Watch The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is "nothing short of horrifying" -- Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pacific Media Watch Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed along with another journalist in an Israeli air...

Pacific Media Watch Global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israeli authorities to end military pactices that "violate international law" with...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi -- an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years --...

Pacific Media Watch The International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned the arrest and interrogation of French journalist Ariane Lavrilleux and demanded her immediate release. She...

Pacific Media Watch A Radio New Zealand Pacific journalist has alleged that an Indonesian official attempted to both bribe and intimidate him following an interview...

PNG Post-Courier Police in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District are investigating the shooting yesterday of a woman reporter working with the National Broadcasting Corporation...

By Mackenzie Smith and Toby Mann of ABC Pacific Beat Concerns have been raised about foreign influence in Pacific media after it was revealed Solomon...

By Rakesh Kumar in Suva The Fijian Media Association (FMA) has labelled comments made by former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama this week to media workers...

EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...

RNZ News New Zealand's Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown's exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today "unacceptable". In an...

Pacific Media Watch Just hours after Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 116 publishers, editors-in-chief, and senior editors from around the world called for the release...

Pacific Media Watch More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing...