Media

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

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. REVIEW: By Aleta Moriarty Israeli...

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts...

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

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and...

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

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan, reveals In-depth Solomons

By Ronald Toito’ona and Charley Piringi in Honiara China’s interference and moves to control the media in the Solomon Islands have been exposed in leaked...

Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza

By Binoy Kampmark The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against...

RSF condemns Israel over ‘silencing of media’ – 31 Palestinian journalists in jail, 80 plus killed

Pacific Media Watch Israel has arrested a total of 38 Palestinian journalists since the start of its war with Hamas on October 7 and is...

John Pilger: Silencing the lambs – how propaganda works

John Pilger tirelessly and fearlessly exposed Western crimes against the Global South. A master of his craft whose integrity was unmatched, he died on...

Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but shunned by local media

Pacific Media Watch Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil this week to the more than 100 journalists — most of...

Israel’s ‘illogical’ legal defence off to weak start, says analyst Bishara

Pacific Media Watch Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says Israel’s legal team “started off weak” but made a few strong points near the...