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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...

Fiji to scrap ‘dead in water’ media law with pledge to back independent journalism

By Kelvin Anthony The Fiji government has announced it will repeal the controversial Media Industry Development Act 2010. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said cabinet had approved...

Indonesian security forces attack West Papuan rebels holding NZ pilot

By Finau Fonua and Koroi Hawkins Indonesian security forces in Papua last week launched an offensive against the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) command...

Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders

By Kelvin Anthony The Fiji government is signalling that it will not completely tear down the country’s controversial media law which, according to local newsrooms...

Keeping the flow – the use of te reo Māori at NZ’s Parliament

By Johnny Blades An increased appetite to learn te reo Māori among members and staff from different parts of the Parliamentary system means the work...

Palestinians uphold traditional Ramadan rituals – despite the Israeli Occupation

By Wafa Aludaini in Gaza During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims from all corners of the globe come together to celebrate. Each country has...

As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now

Monday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has given a “final warning” to avert global catastrophe. Pacific cabinet ministers call on all world...