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

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett  Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she...

250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza

Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement...

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

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes...

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

Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister...

21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador...

Archive: USP student coverage of the ‘internet coup’ in Fiji 2000

Crisis coverage by University of the South Pacific journalism students An archive of the exclusive University of the South Pacific journalism programme coverage of the...

Archive: Commentary: The gag threat to Café Pacific

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-four By David Robie Judging by how the number...

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...