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November 28, 2023
RNZ News Former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson has defended Aotearoa New Zealand’s public interest journalism fund that his government started during the covid-19 pandemic, after the new deputy prime minister characterised it as “bribery”. Speaking to media on Monday after his swearing in, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters accused state-funded media organisations of a lack ... <a title="Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/former-broadcast-minister-defends-nz-journalism-fund-state-funded-media-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
RNZ Pacific University of the South Pacific (USP) staff gathered outside the Japan-Pacific ICT Centre today to protest over better pay and conditions as well as calling for the removal of the regional institution’s vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia. The university’s main decision making body, the USP Council, is meeting at the Laucala campus this week. ... <a title="‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair pay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/all-talk-and-no-action-say-usp-protesters-calling-for-fair-pay/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair pay">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
By Monika Singh in Suva Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of any vibrant democracy and society’s collective responsibility to safeguard and protect it, says Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Information and Communication Technology Timothy Masiu. Masiu was chief guest at the 2023 University of the South Pacific Journalism Student Awards function held in ... <a title="PNG’s Masiu warns USP journalism students to defend free press" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/pngs-masiu-warns-usp-journalism-students-to-defend-free-press/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Masiu warns USP journalism students to defend free press">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2023
REVIEW: By David Robie 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. In it he warned that a worst-case scenario — “long feared but never ... <a title="Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/25/behind-the-war-on-gaza-how-israel-profits-globally-from-repression/" aria-label="Read more about Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2023
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they’re reporting what’s happening in Gaza and Israel. Mediawatch has asked BBC news boss Jonathan Munro how they’re handling it — even when it’s coming from the UK’s own government. “Palestinian health officials in Gaza ... <a title="Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/mediawatch-media-in-the-middle-of-gaza-claims-and-counterclaims/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israeli authorities to end military pactices that “violate international law” with the deaths of civilians, including journalists. This came in the wake of seven journalists being killed by Israeli security forces in the space of a week — six in the ... <a title="RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/21/rsf-condemns-middle-east-bloody-week-with-seven-journalists-killed/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya The referendum on the indigenous Voice in Australia last Saturday was an historic event. Australians were asked to vote on whether to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia in the Constitution through an indigenous Voice. The voters were asked to vote “yes” or ... <a title="‘No’ to Australia’s indigenous voice – a devastating wake-up call for resistance to colonialism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/17/no-to-australias-indigenous-voice-a-devastating-wake-up-call-for-resistance-to-colonialism/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No’ to Australia’s indigenous voice – a devastating wake-up call for resistance to colonialism">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Singapore In the aftermath of Palestinian group Hamas’ terror attack inside Israel on October 7 and the Israeli state’s even more terrifying attacks on Palestinian urban neighbourhoods in Gaza, the media across many parts of Asia tend to take a more neutral stand in comparison with their Western counterparts. A ... <a title="Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/15/asian-states-shocked-by-hamas-raids-but-no-blind-support-for-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for Israel">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2023
Israeli occupation forces are intentionally targeting Palestinian journalists in the besieged Gaza Strip, media outlets warned after three reporters were killed Tuesday bringing the total number of journalists killed since Saturday to seven, reports Middle East Monitor. The Government Media Office’s Monitoring and Follow-up Unit in Gaza has documented dozens of attacks and crimes against ... <a title="7 journalists killed since beginning of Israeli aggression on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/13/7-journalists-killed-since-beginning-of-israeli-aggression-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about 7 journalists killed since beginning of Israeli aggression on Gaza">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media statement said that decision followed Stuff’s increasing concerns about the volume of mis- and disinformation being shared, and the “damaging behaviour being exhibited on and enabled by the platform”. ... <a title="NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/13/nzs-stuff-media-group-quits-x-twitter-over-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi — an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years — has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran,” her courage and determination. Persecuted by the Iranian authorities since the late 1990s ... <a title="RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/rsf-hails-decision-to-award-nobel-peace-prize-to-iranian-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Pacific Media Watch New Caledonia’s daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes is back six months after it closed — but with a big difference. It is online only and free, almost. The return of the news outlet which had been an institution for half a century is welcomed in many quarters, but some local mayors would ... <a title="Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/noumeas-newspaper-les-nouvelles-is-back-free-and-online-only/" aria-label="Read more about Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only">Read more</a>
