Tag: Reporters Without Borders
The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media response
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
A friend and colleague, Solidarity columnist Eugene Doyle, posed a brief question on the Facebook media page Kiwi...
Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three...
Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats and court summons
By Khalia Strong of PMN News
Fiji has shot up the world rankings for press freedom but the victory feels hollow as journalists across the...
‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on
TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo
The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81.
He was...
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 by the Israeli army against journalists...
Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens all journalists
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau.
We watched...