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UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis headed to the polls. Michael West Media reports.

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Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
In what is probably one of its most shameful acts ever, the Pacific Islands Forum has betrayed one of…

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

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Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and physical assaults for holding Pacific powers accountable. Now joining the Cook Islands…

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

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An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke about the four pillars of journalism that are all too often weaponised…

Masked settler assault on Washington Post photographer a snapshot of Israel’s toxic reality today

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: Commentary by Mark Naglazas
An American photojournalist getting viciously beaten up the West Bank by settlers is small potatoes in comparison to the hundreds of journalists who…

Review: Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

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REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime — a warning to the world of a horrendous dystopian future…

Fiji’s Online Safety Act – why it poses risks for journalism

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Fiji’s Online Safety Act raises important questions for journalism, but also freedom of expression more broadly. The current review of the Act presents an opportunity to better safeguard the media’s…

Maher Nazzal: Shame on New Zealand’s mainstream news media

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COMMENTARY: By Maher Nazzal
Thousands of people took to the streets across Aotearoa New Zealand on Saturday, standing in solidarity with Palestine as part of the Global Day of Action

‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media Watch

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ABC Media Watch this week accused Michael West of “perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories” online. We say the failure of journalism by ABC and other legacy media makes them culpable in…

Palestinian researcher exposes Israel’s list of so-called ‘terrorist’ journalists slain in Gaza as smear

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Stephen Prager
Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces last week published a list of 170…

From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of struggle for justice

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BOOK REVIEW: By David Robie
The seeds of resistance and later community empowerment began in Tāmaki Makaurau in a humble but lively bookshop in a rundown two-storeyed shop at 436…

In the wake of MIDA, Fiji’s news industry has turned full circle for media freedom

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COMMENTARY: By Anish Chand in Savusavu
In 2023, Fiji’s Media Industry Development Authority (MIDA) was scrapped, marking a significant moment for Fiji’s media landscape.

A year later, at the PINA…

Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

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Right-wing astroturfers were given a platform at the Bondi Royal Commission, their history concealed and their testimony uncontested. APMN member Wendy Bacon reveals what the Commissioners ignored for Michael West…

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

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KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis
Two months out from New Zealand’s general election, and we have yet to see new policy from any of the seven main political parties…

Posting profits but what is the future bottom line? - Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis

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COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
We have become all too familiar with New Zealand media company interim and full year reports oozing red ink, so it was pleasant surprise to see…

Never again for anyone: Why the NZ Holocaust Centre shouldn’t be involved in developing a new curriculum

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CAFÉ PACIFIC: By Jeremy Rose and Rick Sahar
Rick Sahar, a former board member of the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, soldier in the IDF, and son of concentration camp survivors…

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre that I founded at Auckland University of Technology, we…

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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…