Media

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...

David Robie on The News Manual and The Pacific Journalist books for the region

By David Ingram Over the years, one of the Pacific region's most respected journalism educators, Professor David Robie, has said some very kind things about...

Minister praises Pacific Media Centre launch and projects

AUT University Auckland University if Technology's Pacific Media Centre (PMC) was officially launched by the Associate Minister of Pacific Island Affairs Luamanuvao Winnie Laban last...

Reporting from the Pacific front line

By Andrea Malcolm Journalists covering the South Pacific face new challenges, as tensions heighten, environmental issues take precedence and economic activity increases. "A decade-long civil war...

Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand personally approved the attack on Greenpeace 20 years ago

Democracy Now! Twenty years ago on 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French government agents and sunk in Auckland harbour,...

The South Pacific round – a book on Pacific journalism pedagogy, politics and perils [Profile]

Citizens of the politically turbulent states that are New Zealand's neighbours deserve better news media. David McLoughlin talks to an old Pacific hand, David...

USP graduation day reunion a cause for celebration

By Angeline Lal in Suva It was an occasion to remember for three University of the South Pacific students and their former lecturer when they...