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Pressured Australian media sector boosted by broadcast tax cuts neoskosmos.com/en/2026/05/12/… via @NeosKosmos

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: buff.ly/gWGz1Vg

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 nytimes.com/2026/05/06/bus…

#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. If you’d like to get media movements in your inbox, subscribe here: engage.medianet.com.au/media-movement…

Tonga Media express alarm after drug cartel linked threat made on Nuku'alofa media company facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

Armed man threatened leading Tonga media outlet Kele'a, warning them they had to stop reporting on drug & Australian gang connections to the kingdom. facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain in the Pacific dlvr.it/TSLyS8 #PNG

Press freedom concerns raised after Fiji police seize journalist's phone over Facebook post dlvr.it/TSJpZ3 #Fiji

“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.

#TOP: Media practitioners from across the National Capital District and throughout Papua New Guinea are congregating at the Crown Hotel today, Friday, May 1, 2026, for the highly anticipated Media Summit 2026. Read the full article here:👉🏼( postcourier.com.pg/media-summit-2… )

OCCRP condemns seizure of journalist’s phone in Fiji - The Fiji Times fijitimes.com.fj/occrp-condemns…

1. Peter Thiel is pouring millions into a dystopian new start-up that seeks to discredit journalists reporting on wealthy people with a combination of retired intelligence operatives and a "jury" of AI models The company is even trying to pressure reporters to turn over the IDs of anonymous sources

WASHINGTON, April 24 — @NPCPresident @MarkSchoeff Jr. today issued the following statement on the firing of the ombudsman at Stars and Stripes:

The body of the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found by rescuers after several hours of digging in the rubble after an Israeli strike. She is the fourth journalist to have been killed by Israeli forces in seven weeks. This is why the word ‘journacide’ is now being used.

The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…

#TOP: The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (MCPNG) has announced that the 2nd PNG Media Summit 2026 has been elevated to a major Pacific regional event. Read the full article here:👉( wp.me/peM2NU-2Oek )

#TOP: Mainstream media personnel from different media organisations in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Bougainville gathered in Port Moresby yesterday for a consultative workshop on the draft manual on investigative journalism. Read full article here: ( postcourier.com.pg/png-media-cons… )

NEW: @NPR has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network's existence, totaling $113 million. More: npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-…

Absolutely brutal all-staff call currently taking place at the BBC. Up to 2,000 job cuts coming in Sept. BBC bosses painting bleak picture of finances. "Our funding model has reached end of life," interim DG Rhodri Talfan Davies said, per one insider. deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-pl…

We're living through the collapse of the public information ecosystem as we know it. What do we do?