First, links to seven reports: from Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye, Tass, and National Public Radio, and to articles of analysis from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (YEMEN, SYRIA, WEST BANK, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.  MEDIA 3-16-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Vigil in Australia mourns more than 200 journalists murdered in Gaza. From Middle East Monitor. Australia hosted a vigil mourning the murder of more than 200 journalists in Gaza, an Australian journalist, David Milner, said on X. It was hosted in front of Australia’s ABC News Agency building in Sydney. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 25  Tributes pour in for Palestinian journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour, by Rayhan Uddin| Middle East Eye  The two were killed by Israel in separate attacks on Monday — Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, in an Israeli air strike in his home north of Khan Younis in which his wife and son were also killed, and Shabbat, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, in his vehicle on Salah al-Din Street in north Gaza. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for March 24 Middle East Eye report.

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FROM MARCH 25  Two journalists in Gaza killed by Israeli airstrikes, as press freedom on a global scale at risk. From WBUR. Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists, notes that Monday’s killings of Al Jazeera and Palestine Today reporters added to the more than 170 journalists killed since the beginning of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. Click HERE to listen and read intro.

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FROM MARCH 24  Israeli strikes in Gaza targeted key hospital and journalists, by Aya Batrawy | NPR  Today, Israeli airstrikes killed two journalists in separate attacks, including Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Al Jazeera correspondent. Click HERE to listen and read.

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Kiev deliberately targets journalists, law norms for protecting them — Russian diplomat. From Tass. MOSCOW — “The terrorist Kiev regime deliberately targets both reporters and those international law norms that should have protected them,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting . . . READ MORE . . .

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Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director beaten by Israeli settlers, is now released. Reported by Kat Lonsdorf | NPR  TEL AVIV — Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian directors of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” was attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to eyewitnesses and his attorney. He was then detained by Israeli forces but released today. Click HERE to listen and read.

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FROM MARCH 24  Sanitizing resumption of genocide as ‘pressure on Hamas,’ by Belén Fernández | FAIR  The New York Times produced an article on Friday, March 21, bearing the headline “Israel Tries to Pressure Hamas to Free More Hostages.” In the first paragraph . . .READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 21  Elite media paved way for Trump’s targeting of Columbia, by Ari Paul | FAIR  President Donald Trump’s campaign against higher education started with Columbia University, both with the withholding of $400 million in funding to force major management charges (Wall Street Journal, 3/21/25) and the arrest and threatened  deportation of grad student Mahmoud Khalil, a student leader of Columbia’s  movement against the genocide in Gaza (Al Jazeera, 3/19/25). READ MORE . . .

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