Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

Pacific media outlets In-depth Solomons and Inside PNG face existential threats, while Benar News has already gone under, as America withdraws from the region.

Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

By Ben McKay America’s retreat from foreign aid is being felt deeply in Pacific media, where pivotal outlets are being shuttered and journalists work unpaid. The result is fewer investigations into dubiously motivated politicians, glimpses into conflicts otherwise unseen and a less diverse media in a region which desperately needs it. “It is a huge disappointment … a senseless waste,” Benar News’ Australian former head of Pacific news Stefan Arm…