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USP academic calls for better press freedom protections in face of Fiji’s declining media trust

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Cheerieann Wilson of The Fiji Times in Suva
Public trust in Fiji’s mainstream media has significantly declined, a journalism academic has told the Truth and Reconciliation…

Activist journalist Terry Bell – a life defined by unwavering commitment to justice and democracy

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OBITUARY: RADIO 786: Pacific Media Watch
Anti-apartheid campaigner Terry Bell has died at the age of 84. A lifelong activist, journalist, and educator, Bell’s life was defined by his…

Corruption reporting project mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist

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OBITUARY: By Aubrey Belford, Australia and South Pacific regional editor of OCCRP
The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dan McGarry…

From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific

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COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire
The legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific is unfinished business. From the 1997 disappearance of journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud to the…

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…