Media of Macau

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'''Media in Macau''' are available to the public in the forms of: television and radio, newspapers, magazines and the Internet. 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 Hong Kong.

Macau reportedly{{By whom|date=February 2022}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

==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.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

All local newspapers that have been published for at least five years{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} are entitled to subsidies from the government.<ref name="bbc"/>

The first newspaper published in Macau was ''A Abelha da China'' ({{lang-zh|links=no|t=蜜蜂華報}}), which was only published for one year from 1822 to 1823.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Tang Io Weng |title=The Research History of ''A Abelha da China'', China's First Foreign Newspaper |url=http://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40070/4170 |website=icm.gov.mo |access-date=30 December 2024 |date=2022}}</ref>

* ''Hoje Macau'' – Portuguese-language daily<ref name="bbc"/> * ''Jornal Tribuna de Macau'' – Portuguese-language daily<ref name="bbc">{{cite web |title=Macau media guide |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-16599928 |website=BBC News |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> * ''Macau Daily News'' – top circulation daily, Chinese-language<ref name="bbc"/> * ''Macau Daily Times'' – English language,<ref name="bbc"/> owned by a non-media business interests * ''Macau Post Daily''<ref name="gov"/> – 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'' – Portuguese-language daily<ref name="bbc"/> * ''Tai Chung Pou'' – owned by a group of businessmen * ''Va Kio Daily'' – privately owned Chinese daily<ref name="bbc"/> * ''Macau Lifestyle Media'' – English-language website * ''The Sports Journal'' – Chinese sports news weekly * ''MacauNews'' – English- and Chinese-language website<ref name="bbc"/> * ''Macau Platform'' – Portuguese- and Chinese-language weekly<ref name="gov">{{cite web |title=Media |url=https://www.gcs.gov.mo/news/mediaInfo/en?0 |website=Government Information Bureau of the Macao SAR |access-date=31 December 2024}}</ref>

''Revista Macau'' is a quarterly magazine with cultural contents and run by the government. ''Macau Business'' 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'' is a monthly gaming magazine, in English. ''World Gaming'' is an English and Chinese language magazine promoting the gaming and tourism sector.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

==Broadcast media== {{Chinese television topics}} TDM (Macau) – Teledifusão de Macau, S. A., provides public broadcasting service to Macau. 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, Chinese and Portuguese.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

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<ref name="gov"/> * Macau Asia Satellite Television (MASTV) 澳亞衛視<ref name="bbc"/> * NewSky Satellite Television (NewSky) 新天衛視 * Teledifusão de Macau (TDM) 澳門廣播電視股份有限公司<ref name="bbc"/>

==Media administration== The government of Macau established the Government Information Bureau to regulate media broadcasting and provides support organizations related to this aspect. They are directly responsible to the chief executive of Macau. Freedom of the press is guaranteed under the Basic Law and Press Law of Macau.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

The death of Lai Minhua, 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.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjE5DwAAQBAJ&dq=Lai+Minhua+customs&pg=PA252 |title=Digital Technology and Journalism: An International Comparative Perspective |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-319-55026-8 |editor-last=Tong |editor-first=Jingrong |language=en |editor-last2=Lo |editor-first2=Shih-Hung}}</ref>

==Reporters' organizations== There are five journalists' organizations in Macau.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

==Media education== The University of Macau offer degree courses in media studies.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

The University of Saint Joseph offers a Communication and Media program that covers a wide range of media disciplines.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

==Internet== There are several major internet communities in Macau such as Macaustreet, CyberCTM, Qoos and Macauplus.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

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