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West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian journalists


PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH:
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned and highlighted recent attacks and obstructions committed by the Israeli military against Palestinian journalists reporting from the occupied West Bank.

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media



ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen
In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new [United Nations] report” with a listing…

Free Speech Union board member revealed in Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury’s ‘gagging’ case



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
A court struggle featuring Daily Blog editor and media freedom defender Martyn Bradbury has taken a surprise turn, with Free Speech Union (FSU) board member and…

Medieval literature and how the values of friendship relate to us today



ASIA PACIFIC MEDIA NETWORK:
Congratulations to our Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) chair, Dr Heather Devere, who has another book on the politics of friendship out. Published by Palgrave Macmillan…

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: Commentary: By Joel Jenkins
Of late, Australia’s public broadcaster ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but…

Gagged NZ editor’s ‘free speech’ case adjourned as judge warns Daily Blog over ‘contempt’ risk



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH:
Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury’s gagging case has been adjourned until next week, with the judge warning today that latest posts defending “free…

Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in Papua



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific
A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says that the Indonesian government is silencing environmental activists and journalists in Papua region…

Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat



COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose of APMN
Israel’s Environment Ministry has removed the protected status of Nile crocodiles to allow them to be used in a moat guarding the country’s largest…

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in Palestine’s West Bank



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
New Zealand journalist and video story teller Cole Martin has given a heartfelt and challenging personal account of what it is like living in Palestine under…

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’


ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste
One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue…

Kia Ora Whānau #10 – New APMN members and a fresh vision

 
 
KIA ORA WHĀNAU NEWSLETTER #10: 12 July 2026
At our last AGM – our fifth – several new members joined us and we are looking forward to refreshing…

The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media response


COMMENTARY: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
A friend and colleague, Solidarity columnist Eugene Doyle, posed a brief question on the Facebook media page Kiwi Journalists Association last week.

“Kiwi…

Saige England: Praise for Australia’s Jewish Council but NZ’s council is a hasbara propaganda campaign



COMMENTARY: By Saige England, an APMN member
Good on the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) for its submission to the Royal Commission.
The New Zealand Jewish Council is so…

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives



COMMENTARY: By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva
The contest for influence in the Pacific is no longer confined to diplomacy, aid projects or infrastructure.

Increasingly, it is being waged through information…

Palestinian journalists from Gaza ‘treated inhumanely’ by Israeli army and Shin Bet, accuses RSF



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has accused the Israeli army and internal security agency Shin Bet of repeatedly perpetrating inhumane acts against Palestinian journalists from Gaza.

The Paris-based…

Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s thuggery enabled the abuse



The failure of Australia and Western governments to hold Israel to account has enabled the abuse of Gaza flotilla detainees, including New Zealanders, argues Jerusalem Peace Prize recipient Stuart Rees…

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’



ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three days before World Press Freedom…

Palestinian photojournalist wins Pulitzer for breaking news photography



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Kim Wingerei
Saher Alghorra, a Palestinian photojournalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of photographs published in The New York Times. What’s the…