Tag: press 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...
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...
From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and freedom
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated American-Palestinian journalist known across the...
Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media
Pacific Media Watch
Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent...
Israeli troops seize, blindfold naked journalists in bid to ‘silence’ Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up...
Gaza media voices: Who are Bisan, Hind Khoudary, Motaz and Plestia?
Young women Bisan Owda, Hind Khudary, Plestia Alaqad -- and Motaz Azaiza, a young man also from Gaza -- are among a new generation...