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September 1, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists in the Gaza Strip as part of a worldwide action by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders and the community politics organisation Avaaz. On August 25, one ... <a title="Massacre of journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest and action today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/01/massacre-of-journalists-triggers-rsfs-black-monday-protest-and-action-today/" aria-label="Read more about Massacre of journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest and action today">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel’s trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies covering the war on Gaza as treating Palestinian reporters like “robots”. “You see how Palestinian journalists are treated. There’s no protection when they are alive,” Hind Khoudary told Al Jazeera ... <a title="Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/palestinian-journalists-treated-like-robots-by-western-media-says-gaza-reporter-in-wake-of-latest-israeli-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military’s “disgraceful tactic” to cover up war crimes in the wake of the killing of six journalists in Gaza on Sunday. It has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to stop the massacre of journalists, ... <a title="RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/rsf-calls-for-emergency-un-security-council-meeting-after-targeted-israeli-strike-kills-six-media-professionals/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals">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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April 30, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake Despite all the political machinations and hate towards the media coming from the president of the United States, I always thought the majority of Australian politicians supported the role of the press in safeguarding democracy. And I certainly did not expect Peter Dutton — amid an election campaign, one with citizens ... <a title="Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/amid-duttons-hate-media-and-trumps-despotism-press-freedom-is-more-vital-than-ever/" aria-label="Read more about Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Reporters Without Borders Donald Trump campaigned for the White House by unleashing a nearly endless barrage of insults against journalists and news outlets. He repeatedly threatened to weaponise the federal government against media professionals whom he considers his enemies. In his first 100 days in office, President Trump has already shown that he was not bluffing. ... <a title="Trump’s war on the media: 10 numbers from US President’s first 100 days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/trumps-war-on-the-media-10-numbers-from-us-presidents-first-100-days/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s war on the media: 10 numbers from US President’s first 100 days">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction in Widakuswara v Lake, affirming the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) was unlawfully shuttered by the Trump administration, Acting Director Victor Morales and Special Adviser Kari Lake. The decision enshrines that USAGM must fulfill its legally required ... <a title="Victory for US press freedom and workers – court grants injunction in VOA media case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/23/victory-for-us-press-freedom-and-workers-court-grants-injunction-in-voa-media-case/" aria-label="Read more about Victory for US press freedom and workers – court grants injunction in VOA media case">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed support for Gaza’s media professionals and called on Israel to urgently lift the blockade on the territory. It said the humanitarian catastrophe was continuing in Gaza and hampering journalists’ work on a daily basis. The Israeli army had killed their colleagues and ... <a title="RSF slams ‘horrific conditions’ for journalists in Gaza in wake of fragile ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/05/rsf-slams-horrific-conditions-for-journalists-in-gaza-in-wake-of-fragile-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about RSF slams ‘horrific conditions’ for journalists in Gaza in wake of fragile ceasefire">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 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 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>
