Media in

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

are available to the public in the forms of:

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

and

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a tr ...

newspapers A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

s and the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, p ...

. They serve the local community by providing necessary information and entertainment. Macau's media market is rather small. The local media face strong competition from

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. Macau reportedly has the highest "media density" in the world – nine Chinese-language dailies, three Portuguese-language dailies, three English-language dailies and half a dozen Chinese-language weeklies and one Portuguese-language weekly. About three dozen newspapers from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and the Philippines are shipped to Macau every early morning.

Print media

There are nine Chinese daily newspapers, three Portuguese dailies and two English daily newspapers in Macau. There are also six Chinese weekly newspapers and two Portuguese weekly newspapers. All local newspapers that have been published for at least five years are entitled to subsidies from the government. The first

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...

published in Macau was '' Abelha da China'' (), which was only published for one year. * '' Hoje Macau'' – Portuguese-language daily * ''

Jornal Tribuna de Macau The ''Jornal Tribuna de Macau'' () is one of three Portuguese-language newspapers in Macau. It is published seven days a week, appearing in the morning, and covers both local and international news. José Rocha Diniz is its director. The ''Jorn ...

'' – Portuguese-language daily * ''

Macau Daily News The ''Macao Daily News'' (, Portuguese: DIÁRIO DE MACAU), established on 15 August 1958, is a daily newspaper published in Macau with the background of the Chinese Communist Party. It was launched on August 15, 1958 and is now the largest news ...

'' – top circulation daily, Chinese-language * ''

Macau Daily Times The ''Macau Daily Times'' () is one of the two daily English-language newspapers published in Macau, launched on June 1, 2007. Overview The paper started life among one English and several Chinese and Portuguese language newspapers. It consis ...

'' – English language, owned by a non-media business interests * ''

Macau Post Daily ''The Macau Post Daily'' () (sometimes abbreviated to MPD) was launched on August 27, 2004, and is Macau's oldest and highest paid-circulation English-language daily newspaper. The Macau Post Daily is a compact newspaper, i.e., a broadsheet-q ...

'' – Macau's oldest English-language daily, owned by media interests * '' O CLARIM'' – Portuguese-English-Chinese language weekly, owned by the Catholic Church, oldest continuous Portuguese Newspaper in Macau ''(GCS. registration no.1)'' * ''

Ponto Final ''Ponto Final'' (meaning ''Full Stop'' in English; ) is a Portuguese-language Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an officia ...

'' – Portuguese-language daily * '' Tai Chung Pou'' – owned by a group of businessmen * ''

Va Kio Daily ''Va Kio Daily'' () is an independent Chinese-language daily newspaper published in Macau, China. History The newspaper was established in 1937 in Portuguese Macau. See also * Media of Macau External linksOfficial site {{Media of Macau Chin ...

'' – privately owned Chinese daily * '' Macau Lifestyle Media'' – English-language website * '' The Sports Journal'' – Chinese sports news weekly '' Revista Macau'' is a quarterly magazine with cultural contents and run by the government. ''

Macau Business Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a po ...

'' is Macau's oldest English language publication, launched in May 2004, published monthly by a private company (De Ficção – Multimedia Projects) that also owns '' Business Intelligence Magazine'' a business magazine in Chinese, and ''Essential Macau'' a bilingual (Chinese/English) luxury magazine., "Macau News Agency", the first independent news agency available online and "MB.tv", and online video news platform; ''

Inside Asian Gaming Inside may refer to: * Insider, a member of any group of people of limited number and generally restricted access Film * ''Inside'' (1996 film), an American television film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Eric Stoltz * ''Inside'' (2002 f ...

'' (IAG) is a monthly B2B gaming industry magazine, printed in English and covering the LENGTH industries – Leisure, Entertainment, Nightlife, Gaming, Tourism and Hospitality. Founded in 2005, IAG is supported by a daily industry e-newsletter, IAG Breakfast Briefing. ''

World Gaming Magazine In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

'' (WGM) is a monthly B2C gaming magazine that was founded in 2009 and features five main sections – Play, Sport, Enjoy, Shop and The Macau Guide. '' High Life'' is a lifestyle magazine. The content includes high end leisure, retail and non-gaming products on offer in Macau resorts as well as other elements of Macau society and culture. It is distributed in more than 12,500 five star Macau hotel rooms as well as on mainland Chinese digital reading platform Netease.

Broadcast media

TDM (Macau) TDM - Teledifusão de Macau, S. A. (TDM; ; en, Macau Broadcasting) provides public broadcasting services in Macau. By running five digital terrestrial television channels, one satellite television channel and two radio channels, TDM provides l ...

– Teledifusão de Macau, S. A. , provides public broadcasting service in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China. By running five digital terrestrial TV channels, one satellite TV channel, two radio channels, TDM serves the audiences a wide range of contents in Macau's two official languages, say Chinese and Portuguese. Premium channels include: * China Satellite Television (CSTV) 中華衛視 * Confucius Television (KZTV) 孔子衛視 * Fung Fu Television (FFTV) 功夫衛視 * Lotus TV Macau (LOTUS) 澳門蓮花衞視 * Macau Asia Satellite Television (MASTV) 澳亞衛視 * NewSky Satellite Television (NewSky) 新天衛視 *

Teledifusão de Macau TDM - Teledifusão de Macau, S. A. (TDM; ; en, Macau Broadcasting) provides public broadcasting services in Macau. By running five digital terrestrial television channels, one satellite television channel and two radio channels, TDM provides ...

(TDM) 澳門廣播電視股份有限公司

Media administration

The

government of Macau The Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (; Portuguese: Governo da R.A.E. de Macau; conventional short name Macau Government, 澳門政府, Governo de Macau), are headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly t ...

established the Government Information Bureau to regulate media

broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began wi ...

and provides support organizations related to this aspect. They are directly responsible to the

chief executive of Macau The Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (; pt, Chefe do Executivo da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau) is the head of government of Macau, a special administrative region of China. The position replaced the o ...

. Freedom of the press is guaranteed under the Basic Law and Press Law of Macau. The death of

Lai Minhua Lai Minhua, Chinese: (January 1959 - 30 October 2015) was a police officer from Macau, who was Director General of Macau Customs Service. According to official sources, she died by suicide in 2015, however doubt has been cast over this verdict. ...

, director general of the Macao Customs Service, and its subsequent reporting has been used as a case study on media use in Macau and in particular how mainstream media was reluctant to report on her death.

Reporters' organizations

There are five journalists' organizations in Macau.

Media education

The

University of Macau The University of Macau (UM; Portuguese: ''Universidade de Macau'', Chinese: 澳門大學) is an internationalised public comprehensive university in Macau. The UM campus is located in the east of Hengqin Island, Guangdong province in Mainland ...

offer degree courses in

media studies Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostl ...

. The

University of Saint Joseph The University of Saint Joseph (USJ; ; pt, Universidade de São José) is a Catholic university founded in 1996, previously known as Macau Inter-University Institute (; pt, Instituto Inter-Universitário de Macau; IIUM). It was jointly org ...

offers a Communication and Media program that covers a wide range of media disciplines.

Internet

There are several major internet communities in Macau such as Macaustreet, CyberCTM, Qoos and Macauplus.

References

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