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PNG Media Council calls for police probe into alleged assault over jail break report

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (MCPNG) has condemned an alleged assault on a senior female reporter and called on the police to conduct a…

Two new APMN events on West Papua - meet Jubi Media's founding editor Victor Mambor

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
A world premiere of a new documentary revealing the devastation of rainforests in the southeastern part of West Papua is one of two films being screened in…

Herzog protest – when politicans fail, police go rogue, justice fails to protect

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ANALYSIS: By Wendy Bacon
Israel’s President Herzog has departed Australia, leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW police have many questions to answer. Wendy Bacon reports for Michael…

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of totalitarian predator injustice from Gaza to New Zealand

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COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Citizen journalists bring to our attention the truths that we need to know. Being a witness to such truths is different to doom scrolling. It is…

Kia Ora Whānau #9 – Genocide protests, peacemakers and Talanoa TV

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KIA ORA WHĀNAU #9 - APMN NEWS UPDATES
For more than two years, many Asia Pacific Media Network members have been on the street in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand…

West Papua Solidarity Forum, mini film festival aim to educate

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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…

Hot off the press - our first Pacific Media edition

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ASIA PACIFIC MEDIA NETWORK
We are delighted to take delivery of the inaugural edition of Pacific Media, our new research journal.

Packed with cutting edge research from Australia, New…

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News
Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political instability, geopolitical…

‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on

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TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo
The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81.

He was a passionate advocate for…