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Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose Israel’s Environment Ministry has removed the protected status of Nile crocodiles to allow them to be used in a moat guarding the country’s largest detainment camp,...

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed over ignoring Gaza doctor’s plea

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch “This is the last time you’ll see me… they brought me...

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’

ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists...

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Mānawatia a Matariki! Flashback 41 years on: One year ago marking the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the...

‘If we don’t save Dr Abu Safiya, he’ll die in prison’ – released detainees on Gaza doctor

By Qassam Muaddi On June 10, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya appeared on a screen before Israel’s Supreme Court via...

Ban the bomb – how NZ’s ordinary ‘Davids’ checked the nuclear Goliath

OFF THE WALL: with Padre James Bhagwan in Suva As we conclude the month of June 2017, it would be remiss of me not to...

Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy

By David Robie in Jakarta Indonesian hospitality was given a rave notice last week for hosting World Press Freedom Day 2017, but it was also...

Self-censorship in the Fiji media – Fijileaks reviews a timely book on coups, culture and criticism

By Victor Lal, founding editor-in-chief of Fijileaks Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem & Human Rights in the Pacific, in a sense, is a...

Pacific media ought to bear witness to human rights violations, says David Robie

Pacific Community Professor David Robie, a prominent journalist and director of Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, shared his experiences of human rights coverage...

Mystery of the 1983 Vanuatu ‘nuclear free’ girl finally solved

By David Robie So the mystery is finally over. In 1983, I took this photo below of a young ni-Vanuatu girl at a nuclear-free Pacific...

Setting the standard in student journalism: AUT University Pacific journalism students take on Fiji general election

Spasifik Magazine After the Fiji military coup of 5 December 2006, caretaker Prime Minister Jona Senilagakali announced that elections would take place "hopefully in 12...