Media of Macau
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 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 published in Macau was A Abelha da China, which was only published for one year from 1822 to 1823.
- Hoje Macau – Portuguese-language daily
- Jornal Tribuna de Macau – Portuguese-language daily
- Macau Daily News – top circulation daily, Chinese-language
- Macau Daily Times – English language, owned by a non-media business interests
- Macau Post Daily – 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
- Ponto Final – Portuguese-language daily
- Tai Chung Pou – owned by a group of businessmen
- Va Kio Daily – privately owned Chinese daily
- Macau Lifestyle Media – English-language website
- The Sports Journal – Chinese sports news weekly
- MacauNews – English- and Chinese-language website
- Macau Platform – Portuguese- and Chinese-language weekly
Broadcast media
– 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.Premium channels include:
- China Satellite Television 中華衛視
- Confucius Television 孔子衛視
- Fung Fu Television 功夫衛視
- Lotus TV Macau 澳門蓮花衞視
- Macau Asia Satellite Television 澳亞衛視
- NewSky Satellite Television 新天衛視
- Teledifusão de Macau 澳門廣播電視股份有限公司
Media administration
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.
Reporters' organizations
There are five journalists' organizations in Macau.Media education
The University of Macau offer degree courses in media studies.The University of Saint Joseph offers a Communication and Media program that covers a wide range of media disciplines.