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Rainbow Warrior: The Rongelap evacuation and nuclear journalism - the untold stories


INVITATION to a talk by APMN's Dr David Robie, Grey Lynn Library, 474 Great North Road,Tuesday March 24, 6-8pm

David is a local author and journalist, having lived in…

China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector


SPECIAL REPORT: Reporters Without Borders
Since the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations with China in 2019, the Pacific country has become a strategic arena for Beijing’s influence.

By capitalising on…

MCPNG and UN hold media freedom talks in wake of attacks on women journalists


PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH
The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has met the leadership of the Media Council of PNG to advance collaboration in support of a strong, independent…

How Israel is censoring damage reporting about the war on Iran


SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine
Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on local and international media outlets…

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military


REVIEW: By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report
West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in…

Kōrero with Pesta Babi filmmakers Victor Mambor and Dandhy Laksono


ASIA PACIFIC MEDIA NETWORK
Communicators, community activists and advocates gathered last night at Auckland's Whānau Community Centre and Hub for a seminar with investigative journalists and filmmakers Victor Mambor and…

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum



ASIA PACIFIC REPORT

A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend solidarity forum in Auckland Tāmaki…

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



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


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



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


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


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


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…