{{Short description|Government's minister of information}} {{Unreferenced|date=June 2019|bot=noref (GreenC bot)}} An '''information minister''' (also called '''minister of information''') is a position in the governments of some countries responsible for dealing with information matters; it is often linked with censorship and propaganda. Sometimes the position is given to a separate Minister of Culture.
==Information ministries by country== *{{flag|Bangladesh}}: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting *{{flag|Egypt}}: Ministry of Information *{{flag|Hong Kong}}: Director of Information Services *{{flag|India}}: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting *{{flag|Indonesia}}: Ministry of Communication and Information Technology *{{flag|Israel}}: Information Minister of Israel *{{flag|Lebanon}}: Ministry of Information (Lebanon) *{{flag|Malaysia}}: Minister of Communications and Multimedia (Malaysia) *{{flag|Namibia}}: Minister of Information and Communication Technology *{{flag|Nigeria}}: Minister of Information and Communications *{{flag|North Macedonia}}: Ministry of Information Society and Administration *{{flag|Palestine}}: Information Minister *{{flag|Philippines}}: Presidential Communications Group (Philippines) *{{flag|Saudi Arabia}}: Minister of Culture and Information *{{flag|Serbia}}: Ministry of Information (Serbia) *{{flag|Singapore}}: Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts *{{KOR}}: Ministry of Science and ICT *{{flag|Thailand}}: Minister of Information and Communication Technology *{{flag|Ukraine}}: Minister of Culture and Information Policy *{{flag|Vietnam}}: Minister of Information and Communications
==Historic information ministries== *{{flag|Australia}}: Minister for Information (1939–1950) *{{flag|Iraq|1991}}: Information Minister (a historical position during the presidency of Saddam Hussein) *{{flag|France}}: Minister of Information, leading the Ministry of Information (a historical position between 1938 and 1974, succeeded by the Minister of Culture and Communication and the Spokesperson of the Government) *{{flag|Nazi Germany}}: Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (a historical position in Nazi Germany) *{{flag|Norway}}: Ministry of Culture and Enlightenment (a historical position in German occupation of Norway during World War II) *{{flag|Russia}}: Minister of National Enlightenment (a historical position in Imperial Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution) *{{UK}}: Minister of Information (a historical position in the British government during the First and World War II) *{{flag|United States}}: Office of War Information (served as the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities during World War II)
==See also== *Ministry of Information *Ministry of propaganda *National data protection authorities *Information commissioner
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Types of government minister}}
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