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January 8, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed along with another journalist in an Israeli air strike west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the news channel reports. The 27-year-old photojournalist was killed when a missile directly hit the vehicle he was travelling in ... <a title="Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/al-jazeera-gaza-bureau-chiefs-son-one-of-two-palestinian-journalists-killed/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists killed">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Journalists and media workers have criticised comments made by Aotearoa New Zealand’s newly-elected Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters — who claimed that a 2020 Labour government media funding initiative constituted “bribery” — as a threat to media freedom. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reports that it has joined its union affiliate, ... <a title="IFJ condemns deputy PM’s comments as threat to NZ press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/01/ifj-condemns-deputy-pms-comments-as-threat-to-nz-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about IFJ condemns deputy PM’s comments as threat to NZ press freedom">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2023
By Vijay Narayan in Suva The University of the South Pacific Council has reappointed Professor Pal Ahluwalia as vice-chancellor and president amid two days of staff protests. The council says it has also heard from staff representatives and urged the unions and management to work collaboratively in the interest of the university. The meeting was ... <a title="Ahluwalia reappointed as USP’s VC in spite of protests, strike threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/29/ahluwalia-reappointed-as-usps-vc-in-spite-of-protests-strike-threat/" aria-label="Read more about Ahluwalia reappointed as USP’s VC in spite of protests, strike threat">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
By Apenisa Waqairadovu in Suva The Association of the University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) will now make necessary submissions to go on a strike. This comes after AUSPS president Elizabeth Read Fong confirmed that the USP Council had denied staff papers to be presented in this week’s USP Council meeting. Fong said this ... <a title="USP strike on the cards after council blocks staff papers in pay row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/usp-strike-on-the-cards-after-council-blocks-staff-papers-in-pay-row/" aria-label="Read more about USP strike on the cards after council blocks staff papers in pay row">Read more</a>
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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
By Iliana Biutu in Suva University of the South Pacific Union (USPU) president Reuben Colata says industrial action will be the next step if USP does not approve their pay increment being sought. Colata said they did not know why the university did not want to negotiate a salary increase. He said the university had ... <a title="USP union warns of industrial action if fair pay is not approved" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/usp-union-warns-of-industrial-action-if-fair-pay-is-not-approved/" aria-label="Read more about USP union warns of industrial action if fair pay is not approved">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 22, 2023
About 5000 pro-Palestinian supporters gathered in Auckland’s Aotea Square and marched down Queen Street today calling for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid in the War on Gaza. A co-organiser, Ming Al-Ansan, said: “We want our voices heard. Palestinian lives matter, so if we don’t do this then the media is not going to notice us.” ... <a title="Janfrie Wakim: Time to take action over the Gaza bloodshed – hope isn’t enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/janfrie-wakim-time-to-take-action-over-the-gaza-bloodshed-hope-isnt-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Janfrie Wakim: Time to take action over the Gaza bloodshed – hope isn’t enough">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>
