Australia Asia Pacific Media Initiative

AAPMI is a group of Asia Pacific media experts, including former diplomats & executives, journalists & technologists with decades of experience in the region.

[The Straits Times @straits_times]

Meta lashes out at Australia’s bid to make tech giants pay publishers for news content https://t.co/XbXHybj4hP

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The Pentagon has banned journalists from its press office, saying it is now a classified space.

A spokesman said it had been "redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility" because Pete Hegseth's speechwriters were now sharing the room.

Last year the New York Times won a legal challenge against restrictions on access for journalists - although the defence department then barred reporters from entering without an official escort.

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

“Sky News should give up the pretense of being a news service and register as a political party,” writes John Hewson. https://t.co/XJ1hEwhInF

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

US journalists are contending with a president who's turned traditional media relations upside down. Donald Trump, who frequently chooses to use his own social media platform 'Truth Social', has labelled legacy organisations as 'fake news'.

Al Jazeera’s @KimberlyHalkett reports.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Free speech on the line.

International mining company moves to crush the voice of independent media reporting on alleged massive wage theft scandal.

‘BHP seeks urgent suppression orders in trial against coal miner and MWM publisher’
https://t.co/f6wbghVdj4 via @MichaelWestBiz

[JeremyReesnz @JeremyReesnz]

More money in the NZ budget for Māori broadcasting https://t.co/mh4fNo7ChH

[Australia Asia Pacific Media Initiative @broadcasing]

https://t.co/KJsIYoPNOh

[Australia Asia Pacific Media Initiative @broadcasing]

New head of ABC News expected to be Simon Robinson
https://t.co/Z8l83M8WYH

[UK in Solomon Islands & Nauru 🇬🇧🇸🇧🇳🇷 @BHCHoniara]

📢 CALLING ALL 🇸🇧 JOURNALISTS & MEDIA HOUSES

@bbcmediaaction is offering “Content Production” Grants to help you produce powerful stories from outside Honiara – from rural, remote & outer island communities.

[PACNEWS @PACNEWS2]

The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Fijian Media Association (FMA) warmly invite media professionals, partners and stakeholders to the 8th Pacific Media Summit, taking place in Savusavu, Fiji 🇫🇯, from 21–25 September 2026.
#PacificMediaSummit2026 #BluePacific

[Australia Asia Pacific Media Initiative @broadcasing]

Tuvalu climate change.This reporting was supported by the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism through the Walkley Foundation. https://t.co/L1TVh6tecN

[Pita Ligaiula @KaiSawaieke]

Pressured Australian media sector boosted by broadcast tax cuts https://t.co/0Yj7tZVtYh via @NeosKosmos

[People with Disability Australia (PWDA) @PWDAustralia]

Auslan90 is the only program that currently delivers top news stories in Auslan by Deaf journalists, however this service may end once grant funding stops on 30 June this year.

Learn more: https://t.co/pZioeAuk0S

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The @nytimes added 310,000 net new digital subscribers in the first quarter, surpassing 13.1 million total, the largest paid audience in the history of the paper. @katie_robertson https://t.co/xcxr2SBsuz

[Medianet @medianettweets]

#MediaMovement: Australian Associated Press (AAP) (@AAPNewswire) will partner with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (@Abcaustralia) as part of a one-year content-sharing trial in order to support regional news providers during emergencies.

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[Michael Field @MichaelFieldNZ]

Tonga Media express alarm after drug cartel linked threat made on Nuku'alofa media company
https://t.co/SoBMux8yuQ

[Michael Field @MichaelFieldNZ]

Armed man threatened leading Tonga media outlet Kele'a, warning them they had to stop reporting on drug & Australian gang connections to the kingdom.
https://t.co/SoBMux8yuQ

[Raet Lomi @raetlomi]

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain in the Pacific https://t.co/dS00ZmgnpU #PNG

[Raet Lomi @raetlomi]

Press freedom concerns raised after Fiji police seize journalist's phone over Facebook post https://t.co/ZrWMivFIKk #Fiji

[Kim Allen @kallenr94]

“The safety of journalism should be a national and regional priority.”

Kalafi Moala, President of Pacific Islands News Association giving key note address at the #PNG Media Summit 2026.