Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: It’s up to us how we respond to the Gaza holocaust

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I publish my work in print form every month in a collection called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new edition is now available to order in print or...

Red Crescent Palestinians massacre: Global rule of law masquerade is over

ANALYSIS: By Joe Gill It is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel‘s genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen...

NZ protesters honour killed Gaza journalists – ‘targeted’ say press freedom groups

Pacific Media Watch Global press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza this week, who...

Filipino activists praise arrest of ex-president Duterte as first step to end impunity

By David Robie Dozens of Filipinos and supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand came together in a Black Friday vigil...

Gavin Ellis: Forensic detail on NZME but where are the guarantees?

KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis Excoriating is the word that may best describe expat Canadian James Grenon’s 11-page critique...

David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula, For many of you millennials, you’re graduating and entering a Brave New World...

Self-censorship in the Fiji media – Fijileaks reviews a timely book on coups, culture and criticism

By Victor Lal, founding editor-in-chief of Fijileaks Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem & Human Rights in the Pacific, in a sense, is a...

David Robie: Fiji, PNG lead betrayal, but still West Papuans triumph in 2015

COMMENTARY: By David Robie The Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders’ summit in Honiara this week must go down as the most shameful since the organisation...

Fiji’s media still struggling to regain ‘free and fair’ space

COMMENTARY: By David Robie Almost eight months after the much-heralded election to usher Fiji back into democracy mode, the country will mark World Press Freedom...

Shooting the messenger, Pacific style

Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far too narrow terms, as if Big Brother governments and politicians ignorant...

West Papua a media black spot

By David Robie and Alex Perrottet The state of Pacific media freedom is fragile in the wake of serious setbacks, notably in Fiji, with...