Tag: media freedom
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a terrible price in Israel’s genocidal war
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll -- now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll of 142
Pacific Media Watch
US President Joe Biden has spoken at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner in Washington in spite of protests over alleged “complicity”...
Journalists offered ‘radical’ solution to save part of NZ’s Newshub, says Gower
RNZ News
Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...
Why Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring and it is losing its war on truth
ANALYSIS: By Rami G Khouri
For the past six months, Israel has put a lot of effort into covering up its genocidal crimes in Gaza....
APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over Israel’s war on Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, describing...
Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold
Pacific Media Watch
The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...