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August 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al Jazeera media crew of five, including journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa by Israeli forces in Gaza. The journalists were killed ... <a title="CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/cpj-condemns-israeli-killing-of-gaza-journalist-anas-al-sharif-and-video-crew-of-four/" aria-label="Read more about CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they were to blame over misinformation and the worsening catastrophe. Banging pots and pans to spotlight the starvation crisis, they accused the media of “complicity in genocide”. Banners and placards proclaimed ... <a title="As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/as-protesters-condemn-western-media-complicity-gaza-journalists-struggle-for-survival/" aria-label="Read more about As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2025
By Jamie Wiseman The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined calls for urgent action to halt the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza as global news organisations warn that their journalists there are experiencing starvation. Israel must immediately allow life-saving food aid to reach journalists and other civilians in Gaza, IPI said in a statement today. ... <a title="Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists, says IPI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/26/gaza-global-community-must-act-amid-reports-of-starvation-of-journalists-says-ipi/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists, says IPI">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim “If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds.” This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a reality we live daily in the coverage of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, where the crimes of the occupation are turned into “acts of violence”, the siege targeting civilians ... <a title="Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/19/systematic-bias-how-western-media-reproduces-the-israeli-narrative/" aria-label="Read more about Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
By Isaac Nellist of Green Left Magazine Australian-Lebanese journalist and commentator Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case win against the public broadcaster ABC in the Federal Court on Wednesday is a victory for all those who seek to tell the truth. It is a breath of fresh air, after almost two years of lies and uncritical ... <a title="Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/antoinette-lattouf-win-against-abc-a-victory-for-all-truth-tellers/" aria-label="Read more about Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Israel targeted one of the buildings of the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Tehran on the fourth day of attacks on Iran, interrupting a live news broadcast, reports Press TV. The attack, involving at least four bombs, struck the central building housing IRIB’s news department, while a live news ... <a title="Attack on Iran’s state media – Israel bombs IRIB building in new war crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/17/attack-on-irans-state-media-israel-bombs-irib-building-in-new-war-crime/" aria-label="Read more about Attack on Iran’s state media – Israel bombs IRIB building in new war crime">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2025
Pacific Media Watch More than 150 press freedom advocacy groups and international newsrooms have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in issuing a public appeal demanding that Israel grant foreign journalists immediate, independent and unrestricted access to the Gaza Strip. The organisations are also calling for the full protection ... <a title="Gaza plea: RSF, CPJ and 150+ media outlets call on Israel to open Strip to foreign journalists, protect Palestinian reporters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/08/gaza-plea-rsf-cpj-and-150-media-outlets-call-on-israel-to-open-strip-to-foreign-journalists-protect-palestinian-reporters/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza plea: RSF, CPJ and 150+ media outlets call on Israel to open Strip to foreign journalists, protect Palestinian reporters">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken a new approach towards bringing justice these crimes. The Paris-based global media freedom NGO has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that Palestinian journalists who ... <a title="Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/radical-legal-step-towards-ending-impunity-for-israel-over-killing-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged should be repealed. Lagi Keresoma, the first female president of the Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) and editor of Talamua Online, was charged under the Crimes Act 2013 on Sunday ... <a title="Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/legal-academic-says-samoas-criminal-libel-law-should-go-after-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England in Christchurch “RNZ is failing in its duty to inform the public of an entirely preventable humanitarian catastrophe.” Tautoko to Jeremy Rose, Ramon Das and Eugene Doyle for this critique of a review of RNZ’s coverage of a genocide. Sadly, this highlights RNZ’s failure to report the genocide from the perspective ... <a title="Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/17/time-for-nz-media-to-ditch-the-propaganda-and-stand-against-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
By Devin Watkins of Vatican News Only four days have passed since his election to the papacy, and Pope Leo XIV has made it a point to hold an audience with the men and women who were in Rome to report on the death of Pope Francis, the conclave, and the first days of his ... <a title="Pope Leo XIV expresses solidarity for ‘persecuted’ journalists seeking truth, calls for their freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/pope-leo-xiv-expresses-solidarity-for-persecuted-journalists-seeking-truth-calls-for-their-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Pope Leo XIV expresses solidarity for ‘persecuted’ journalists seeking truth, calls for their freedom">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show looking at Israel’s ongoing targeting of Palestinian journalists. A recent report by the Costs of War Project at Brown University described the war in Gaza as the “worst ever conflict for reporters” in history. By one count, Israel has killed ... <a title="Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Biden, Israel ‘did best to cover up’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/11/who-killed-shireen-abu-akleh-film-names-israeli-soldier-but-biden-israel-did-best-to-cover-up/" aria-label="Read more about Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Biden, Israel ‘did best to cover up’">Read more</a>
