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RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
The Paris-based global media freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the guilty verdict against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio whose case has been challenged…

One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators

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REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS
After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”.

When it comes to press freedom, he has kept his word…

Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation

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Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic…

Adelaide Writers' Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

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  • COMMENTARY: By Kim Wingerei and Michael West in Sydney
    Adelaide Writers’ Week, a core part of South Australia’s premier cultural event, the Adelaide Festival, has finally been cancelled in its…

Hot off the press - our first Pacific Media edition

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ASIA PACIFIC MEDIA NETWORK
We are delighted to take delivery of the inaugural edition of Pacific Media, our new research journal.

Packed with cutting edge research from Australia, New…

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News
Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political instability, geopolitical…

‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on

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TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo
The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81.

He was a passionate advocate for…

Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development, and democracy

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Pacific Media
The Pacific Media journal has replaced the Pacific Journalism Review, which was founded by Professor David Robie at the University of Papua New Guinea and published for…

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

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ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett, University of Technology Sydney
Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25.

As…

Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

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Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists in the Gaza Strip as…

NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists

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Asia Pacific Report
About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter

An open letter to the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Minister for Media and Communications of the Government of New Zealand on the matter of press freedom and journalists’ safety

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Thursday August 28, 2025
To: Rt Hon. Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister, Rt Hon. Winston Peters, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Hon. Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Media and Communications

We write…

A ‘scathing’ report on RNZ’s performance obscures the good news – and the challenge of serving many audiences

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ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The recent internal report on RNZ’s performance, variously described as “scathing” and “blunt” in news…

Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings

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Pacific Media Watch
An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel’s trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies covering the war on Gaza…

Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show

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Pacific Media Watch
“Speak Up Kōrerotia” — a radio show centred on human rights issues — has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in this week’s show.

Encouraging discussion…

Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must read for environmental activism

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REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls
Author David Robie left his cabin on the Rainbow Warrior three days before it was blown up by the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), France’s…

‘Will I make it back alive?’: Gaza journalists tell of being targeted by Israel

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Pacific Media Watch
Palestinian journalists have long known Gaza to be the most dangerous place on earth for media workers, but Israel’s attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza…

Legends of the Pacific - Stories of a nuclear-free Moana migrates to Waiheke Library

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Waiheke Island . . . and now our recent APMN Nuclear Free Pacific exhibition at Ellen Melville Centre has "migrated", this time across the Hauraki Gulf to the Waiheke Public…

Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens all journalists

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By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau.
We watched so many of…

Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

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By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva
The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivering a…