NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by global decline
David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific From: Pacific Media Watch New Zealand has slumped to an unprecedented 19th place…
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Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but shunned by local media
From Pacific Media Watch at Asia Pacific Report: Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil to the more than 100 journalists — most of them Palestinian — killed in Israel’s War on Gaza.
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Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings
Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our times. The latest assassination of an Al Jazeera photojournalist while documenting atrocities has prompted a leading analyst to appeal to global journalists to “take a stand” to protect the profession.
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Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression
Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and researcher Antony Loewenstein published an extraordinarily timely book, The Palestine Laboratory.
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MEDIAWATCH: Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR
Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training strategies feature strongly in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.
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The ‘death’ of journalism – may its memory be a blessing
A snippett about the ChatGPT debate from one of the gurus of investigative journalism, Sheila Coronel, at New York’s Columbia School of Journalism. She reports on social media about a recent assignment brief given by a student to ChatGPT: “Write an obituary for journalism.”
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Fiji’s media veterans recount intimidation under FijiFirst government – eye on reforms
Pacific Beat interviews journalists, including TDB contributor David Robie, on how Fiji has fared under the draconian Media Act that has restricted media freedom over the past decade – and the moves to change the law.
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‘Terror’ bomb explodes near Papua journalist Victor Mambor’s home
David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific: A veteran journalist known for covering rights abuses in Indonesia’s militarised Papua region says a bomb exploded outside his home yesterday and a journalists group has called it an act of “intimidation” threatening press freedom.
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EMTV news team walk out in protest over suspension of their chief editor
The national news team of Papua New Guinea’s major television channel, EMTV, has walked out in protest over a decision earlier this month to suspend head of news Sincha Dimara for 21 days without pay for alleged insubordination. This is the third ousting of a news manager in five years at EMTV with PNG facing a critical national election in June.
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Journalism education ‘truth’ challenges in an age of growing hate, intolerance and disinformation
The more that universities can do to equip media graduates with advanced problem-solving skills, the more adept they will be at developing advanced ways of reporting on the pandemic – and other likely pandemics of the future – contesting the merchants of disinformation and reporting on the climate crisis.