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May 17, 2022
The global response to the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Al Jazeera COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views Nothing justifies the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the wounding of her colleague Ali al-Samoudi during an Israeli raid on Jenin in the Occupied West Bank. Nothing. I ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t enough…" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/gavin-ellis-as-if-the-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-wasnt-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t enough…">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2021
RNZ News In just a few weeks the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated sharply as millions cope without desperately needed international aid, New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis says. Bellis is Al Jazeera’s senior producer in Afghanistan and reported on the turmoil in August as the Taliban took over the government and thousands of people tried ... <a title="Charlotte Bellis on Afghanistan: ‘It’s just life and death on so many levels’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/01/charlotte-bellis-on-afghanistan-its-just-life-and-death-on-so-many-levels/" aria-label="Read more about Charlotte Bellis on Afghanistan: ‘It’s just life and death on so many levels’">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has staged parallel protests outside the Chinese embassies in Paris and Berlin, holding funeral-style processions to denounce the “killing” of Apple Daily by the Hong Kong government, and to raise alarm of the threats posed by the Beijing regime to press freedom globally. Arriving at the Chinese ... <a title="RSF’s Apple Daily ‘funeral protests’ mark risk of death of free press in China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/26/rsfs-apple-daily-funeral-protests-mark-risk-of-death-of-free-press-in-china/" aria-label="Read more about RSF’s Apple Daily ‘funeral protests’ mark risk of death of free press in China">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Phil Thornton As chaos flows in Burma, journalists are being forced to hide in plain sight by the Burmese military, writes senior journalist and Myanmar expert Phil Thornton. Journalists in Myanmar are being hunted and arrested by the country’s military for trying to do their job. Independent media outlets have been raided, licences ... <a title="Myanmar: If independent media dies, democracy dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/08/myanmar-if-independent-media-dies-democracy-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar: If independent media dies, democracy dies">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
By Reza Gunadha and Chyntia Sami Bhayangkara in Jayapura Victor Mambor, journalist and editor of the Papua-based Tabloid Jubi, has become the target of a terrorist act this week. A car that he owns which was parked on the road near his home in the Papuan capital of Jayapura was vandalised by unknown individuals between ... <a title="Tabloid Jubi journalist Victor Mambor ‘terrorised’ over Papua reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/tabloid-jubi-journalist-victor-mambor-terrorised-over-papua-reports/" aria-label="Read more about Tabloid Jubi journalist Victor Mambor ‘terrorised’ over Papua reports">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2020
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested on a firearms charge at the end of a raid on her home in which the police planted the evidence. The co-founder of the alternative media network Altermidya and editor ... <a title="RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/16/rsf-protests-over-arrest-of-filipina-journalist-for-planted-firearms/" aria-label="Read more about RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Philippine authorities should independently investigate the circumstances surrounding the killing of journalist Ronnie Villamor and hold those responsible to account, says the Committee to Protect Journalists. In the afternoon of November 14, Philippine Army soldiers shot and killed Villamor, a contributor to the local independent Dos Kantos Balita weekly tabloid, outside ... <a title="Philippine checkpoint soldiers shoot and kill investigative journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/philippine-checkpoint-soldiers-shoot-and-kill-investigative-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Philippine checkpoint soldiers shoot and kill investigative journalist">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A radio journalist has been shot dead outside his home by two gunmen on a motorcycle, Philippines police said – four years after the provincial broadcaster survived a similar attempt to kill him. Virgilio Maganes, 62, who lived northwest of Manila in the province of Pangasinan, was shot six times yesterday ... <a title="Gunmen shoot dead Philippines radio journalist outside his home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/gunmen-shoot-dead-philippines-radio-journalist-outside-his-home/" aria-label="Read more about Gunmen shoot dead Philippines radio journalist outside his home">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Today, October 16, marks the 45th anniversary of the Balibo Five – the five Australian-based Australian, British and New Zealand – journalists murdered in East Timor in 1975. Their case remains unsolved. Roger East, a former ABC journalist, was later murdered when in Timor-Leste investigating the earlier killings and running a ... <a title="AJF condemns impunity over Balibo Five murders in Timor, other killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/16/ajf-condemns-impunity-over-balibo-five-murders-in-timor-other-killings/" aria-label="Read more about AJF condemns impunity over Balibo Five murders in Timor, other killings">Read more</a>
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July 10, 2020
The controversial 101 East episode Locked Up in Malaysia’s Lockdown on 3 July 2020. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Malaysian police summoned six Al Jazeera media workers today for questioning relating to an investigation for defamation and violation of Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA), reports IFJ Asia-Pacific. The International Federation of Journalists ... <a title="Malaysia police summon Al Jazeera journalists for questioning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/10/malaysia-police-summon-al-jazeera-journalists-for-questioning/" aria-label="Read more about Malaysia police summon Al Jazeera journalists for questioning">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie Three cartoonists had especially poignant takes on the tragic and toxic political aftermath of martyr George Floyd’s brutal killing under the knee of a white American policeman in Minneapolis last week. The Boston Globe’s Christopher Weyant featured a split frame contrasting a red-capped “Make America Great Again” and a ... <a title="Toxic US politics, a brutal killing and the messengers become the target" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/05/toxic-us-politics-a-brutal-killing-and-the-messengers-become-the-target/" aria-label="Read more about Toxic US politics, a brutal killing and the messengers become the target">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi Pacific governments across the region have put side their differences with media and are working alongside them in these difficult times, say New Zealand journalists covering Moana. Most journalists who cover the Pacific come Pasifika backgrounds and have been pleasantly surprised by the change in attitude of governments. “The Pacific is infamous ... <a title="Pacific governments ‘working better’ with creative media in pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/pacific-governments-working-better-with-creative-media-in-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific governments ‘working better’ with creative media in pandemic">Read more</a>
