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West Papua Solidarity Forum, mini film festival aim to educate


ASIA PACIFIC REPORT
A two-day West Papua Solidarity Forum and mini film festival is being held in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau next month featuring West Papuan and local academics, advocates and…

Committee to Protect Journalists: The First Amendment is in peril


Sweeping cuts by one of most iconic investigative newspapers in the United States, The Washington Post, now owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, apply to about one-third of…

Pacific Media journal research added to Informit global database



PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
A new Pacific Media research publication and outlet for academics and community advocates has now been added to the Informit database for researchers.

Two editions of…

‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering anti-ICE church protest


DEMOCRACY NOW!
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the arrests of two American journalists for covering a protest at the Cities Church [in the Minnesota Twin City…

UpScrolled – the Australian pro-Palestine platform shaking up global social media


BY AGNESE BOFFANO, in London
As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the scene.

It is not…

Report on the 30th biennial conference of the International Peace Association (IPRA)


BY DR HEATHER DEVERE, IPRA programme coordinator and chair of Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN)
Venue: New Plymouth/Ngamotu, Aotearoa New Zealand, November 2025

The International Peace Research Association (IPRA) held…

Israeli Supreme Court hearing on press access to Gaza looms – RSF and CPJ call for action


Reporters Without Borders
A decisive hearing before the Israeli Supreme Court on whether the press will have independent access to Gaza is due to take place tomorrow.

Reporters Without Borders…

Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians


ANALYSIS: By Paul Gregoire
Australia’s two federal combating antisemitism bills, the New South Wales laws providing the means to shutdown street protests and move on stationary public assemblies, along with…

RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio

PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
The Paris-based global media freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the guilty verdict against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio whose case has been challenged…

One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators



REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS
After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”.

When it comes to press freedom, he has kept his word…

Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation


Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic…

Adelaide Writers' Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum




  • COMMENTARY: By Kim Wingerei and Michael West in Sydney
    Adelaide Writers’ Week, a core part of South Australia’s premier cultural event, the Adelaide Festival, has finally been cancelled in its…