THE Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) has successfully held its 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Heritage Park Hotel on Saturday 23rd August 2025.
The meeting brought together both organizational and individual members to provide updates on MASI’s recent and ongoing activities, discuss key concerns, and explore ways to strengthen and improve the association’s work moving forward.
In his report, MASI President, Ofani Eremae told members that the association had a productive year ,focusing on training, capacity building for its members, and strengthening partnerships with MASI’s stakeholders.
Between Mid 2024 and early 2025, MASI in partnership with various stakeholders has facilitied six key workshops.
This includes mobile journalism (Mojo) training supported by PACMAS and DFAT, Climate Change reporting funded by PINA, social media and Accountability journalism sessions, and in-house newsroom trainings.
Eremae announced that under DFAT’s Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS), MASI has secured AUD$2 million (about SBD11 million) over four years (2024–2027) to support local newsroom development, digital storytelling, and ongoing training.
He also acknowledged other key partners, including BBC Media Action, which continues to support MASI members through short-term capacity-building workshops and trainings, Internews, through its Building Voices for Accountability program and the New Zealand Government, which will provide three short-term scholarships for local reporters.
He added that now that MASI is operating from its own office with a full-time coordinator, it has enabled the association to manage its activities, coordinate projects more effectively, and keep its operations open and transparent.
Eremae also told members that the MASI executive are now looking at ways to generate income to ensure MASI can also support its own programs.
Discussions also centered on a proposed increase in organisational membership fees from $500 to $1,000, which members agreed to review further.
Other issues discussed include the declining number of journalists and urged MASI to support the SINU journalism programme, improve MASI’s visibility, and many other matters.
