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Moana Maniapoto: Why trashing the BSA is a sign of journalism and fairness being undermined


COMMENTARY: By Moana Maniapoto
I was reluctant to enter into journalism because I valued the research and skills attached to the profession, particularly given it’s responsibility to hold the powerful…

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats and court summons


PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Khalia Strong of PMN News
Fiji has shot up the world rankings for press freedom but the victory feels hollow as journalists across the Pacific face…

Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists


As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine, New Zealand journalist David Robie…

Committee update after AGM 2026



ASIA PACIFIC MEDIA NETWORK COMMITTEE 2026
The following people were elected or re-elected at our fifth Annual General Meeting on 24 April 2026 at the Whanau Community Centre and Hub…
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Asia Pacific Media Network: Report from the Chair 2026


ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 24 APRIL 2026
Ngā mihi nui kia koutou katoa and warm Pacific greetings.
 
Welcome to the fifth Annual General Meeting of the Asia Pacific Media Network…

APMN Notice of AGM #2026


Date:   Friday, 24 April 2026
Time:   10.30am-12.30pm, (NZDT), 9.30am (FT), 8.30am (AET)
Venue: Whānau Community Centre and Hub
Unit 7A/165 Stoddard Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland…

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific


Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands and interventions of outside powers, amid growing threats from climate change, writes…

Alternative Jewish Voices launches new access radio programme


PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
Alternative Jewish Voices | Sh’ma Koleinu — a collective of anti-Zionist Jews from the Far North to Dunedin — launched its new radio programme today.

Rick…

Gaza’s young, untrained journalists step up to document Israel’s war crimes


PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
At least 262 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war against the besieged enclave, marking one of the deadliest periods…

Launch of Pacific Media Journal - AMIC newsletter


ASIAN MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE
AMIC Pacific representatives Professor David Robie, the 2015 AMIC Asia Communication Awardee, and Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, continue to play a leading role in…

‘Heinous’ Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in genocidal Gaza war


PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, the Qatari television news channel reports.

The air strike…