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Caitlin Johnstone: None of these war criminals will face justice while the US empire exists

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Two journalists were ejected from a State Department press conference yesterday for asking inconvenient questions about Gaza. One of them, Sam Husseini, was physically carried out...

Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book

Pacific Media Watch Four researchers and authors from the Asia-Pacific region have provided diverse perspectives on the media in...

Gaza ceasefire: After 15 months of brutality, Israel has failed on every front

A ceasefire in Gaza is not the end of Palestine’s nightmare, but the start of Israel’s. Legal moves...

Global watchdog calls for ‘open’ probe into crimes against Gaza media as ceasefire agreed

Asia Pacific Report The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Egyptian, Palestinian and Israeli authorities to allow...

Jonathan Cook: Dr Abu Safiya symbolised humanity in Gaza. Israel and the West are destroying it

Israel isn’t eradicating "the terrorists". It’s turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist,...

Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years in politics

By Patrick Decloitre French Polynesia’s veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his position as president of his Amuitahiraa...

A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the...

Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a beacon

Professor Vijay Naidu’s speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva,...

PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues

PANG Media The PANG media team at this month’s Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David...

Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here’s what makes Evan Vucci’s Trump photograph so powerful

ANALYSIS: By Sara Oscar The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania was captured by several photographers who were standing at the...

When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and political hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena

By David Robie for Pacific Media Watch Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital...