Articles

Two of the US’s biggest newspapers have refused to endorse a presidential candidate. This is how democracy dies

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller In February 2017, as Donald Trump took office, The Washington Post adopted the first slogan in its 140-year history: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. How ironic, then, that...

RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring action

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Taipei It was a heady week for the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog...

Lee Miller helped shape our understanding of war. Her life as a photojournalist echoes in those working today

ANALYSIS: By Andrea Jean Baker Lee, the feature film debut from director Ellen Kuras, explores the rawness of authentic...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel continues its war on journalism

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone An Israeli airstrike destroyed the press office of the Lebanese news broadcaster Al Mayadeen on...

Steven Cowan: The New Zealand media – a bystander to genocide

COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan Stuff declined earlier this month to publish a full-page advertisement accusing Israel of committing genocide...

Archive: Media: Press freedom on the rocks

A feisty newspaper publisher's loss to the Samoan prime minister in a hefty defamation case and manipulation by the Fiji Information Ministry in an...

Archive: Media: NZ journalists in Fiji work permit tangle

Two New Zealand journalism educators are still in suspense over their positions at the University of the South Pacific amid controversy over the "politicising"...

Community, demagogues and the South Pacific news media

By David Robie On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee...

Archive: Media: Background to a Fiji vendetta

A decade-old vendetta against a New Zealand journalist by a Fiji-based media group has again resurfaced. By Harry Stoner In mid-1989, the New Zealand Journalist branded...

Archive: Controversial journalist to get USP post

Fiji's Sunday Post Controversial New Zealander David Robie could be appointed to head the University of the South Pacific's growing journalism programme. Some USP academics not...

Archive: A photographer’s date with a nuclear death

President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And...