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February 20, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A New Zealand-based community education provider, Dark Times Academy, has had a US Embassy grant to deliver a course teaching Pacific Islands journalists about disinformation terminated after the new Trump administration took office. The new US administration requested a list of course participants and to review the programme material amid controversy over ... <a title="US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid ‘freeze’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/20/us-backing-for-pacific-disinformation-media-course-casualty-of-trump-aid-freeze/" aria-label="Read more about US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid ‘freeze’">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Trump administration officials barred two Associated Press (AP) reporters from covering White House events this week because the US-based independent news agency did not change its style guide to align with the president’s political agenda. The AP is being punished for using the term “Gulf of Mexico,” which the president renamed “Gulf ... <a title="RSF demands White House restores AP’s access — and let press do its job" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/15/rsf-demands-white-house-restores-aps-access-and-let-press-do-its-job/" aria-label="Read more about RSF demands White House restores AP’s access — and let press do its job">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
In its eagerness to appease supporters of Israel, the media is happy to ride roughshod over due process and basic rights. It’s damaging Australia’s (and New Zealand’s?) democracy. COMMENTARY: By Bernard Keane Two moments stand out so far from the Federal Court hearings relating to Antoinette Lattouf’s sacking by the ABC, insofar as they demonstrate ... <a title="In the quest to appease Israel, the media undermine our basic rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/in-the-quest-to-appease-israel-the-media-undermine-our-basic-rights/" aria-label="Read more about In the quest to appease Israel, the media undermine our basic rights">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s civic space has been rated as “obstructed” by the Civicus Monitor and the country has been criticised for pushing forward with a controversial media law in spite of strong opposition. Among concerns previously documented by the civil rights watchdog are harassment and threats against human rights defenders, particularly those ... <a title="Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/civicus-monitor-criticises-png-use-of-cybercrime-law-to-curb-free-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2025
A investigative journalism programme — Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — that has pubiished exposes about the South Pacific and has not been impacted on by the “freeze” of USAID funding has hit back in an editorial calling for support of independent media. EDITORIAL: By the OCCRP editors “OCCRP is a deep state ... <a title="‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder to tell the truth’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/08/journalism-has-become-a-blood-sport-it-is-harder-and-harder-to-tell-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder to tell the truth’">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2025
Pacific Media Watch President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress to support independent media and the free flow of information. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has denounced this decision, which has plunged NGOs, media outlets, and journalists doing vital work into ... <a title="Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/08/trumps-foreign-aid-freeze-throws-independent-journalism-into-chaos/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2025
This article was written before The Electronic Intifada’s founding editor Ali Abunimah was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday afternoon for “speaking up for Palestine”. He has since been released and deported. SPECIAL REPORT: By Ali AbunimahIsrael smuggled one of its soldiers out of Cyprus, apparently fearing his detention on charges related to the genocide in ... <a title="The Electronic Intifada: Bringing Israeli genocide perpetrators to justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/28/the-electronic-intifada-bringing-israeli-genocide-perpetrators-to-justice/" aria-label="Read more about The Electronic Intifada: Bringing Israeli genocide perpetrators to justice">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2025
NBC News in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s cabinet has officially given the green light to the PNG media policy, which will soon be presented to Parliament for formal enactment. Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Timothy Masiu believes this policy will address ongoing concerns about sensationalism, ethical standards, and the portrayal of violence ... <a title="PNG media policy ‘new era journalism’ draft law ready, says Masiu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/28/png-media-policy-new-era-journalism-draft-law-ready-says-masiu/" aria-label="Read more about PNG media policy ‘new era journalism’ draft law ready, says Masiu">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship”. Implicit in this vaguely written document: the United States is done fighting mis- and disinformation online, reports the Paris-based global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ... <a title="Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/27/trumps-free-speech-vision-comes-at-expense-of-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by the Israeli occupation to “block media coverage” of the military attack on Jenin. Israeli soldiers have killed at least 12 Palestinians in the three-day military assault that has rendered the ... <a title="Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/al-jazeera-says-correspondents-arrest-latest-bid-to-gag-jenin-coverage/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current New Zealand’s One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the Western media for its complicity in genocide. For some 15 months, the Western media have framed Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza as a “legitimate” war. Pretending to provide an objective and ... <a title="Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/22/gaza-and-the-western-media-complicit-in-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Al Jazeera journalist Fadi al-Wahidi, who was gravely injured on 9 October 2024 while reporting from the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, is fighting for his life as the Israeli authorities continued to refuse his transfer to a hospital abroad, despite repeated calls from RSF. Also, two Palestinian photojournalists, Haytham Abdel Wahed and Nidal ... <a title="Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/gaza-ceasefire-rsf-calls-for-open-borders-for-journalists-end-to-impunity-for-israels-war-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes">Read more</a>
