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?] 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]
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]
All local newspapers that have been published for at least five years[citation needed] are entitled to subsidies from the government.[1]
The first newspaper published in Macau was A Abelha da China (Chinese: 蜜蜂華報), which was only published for one year from 1822 to 1823.[2]
Macau Daily Times – English language,[1] owned by a non-media business interests
Macau Post Daily[3] – 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)
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]
TDM (Macau) – 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, Chinese and Portuguese.[citation needed]
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.[4]
Reporters' organizations
There are five journalists' organizations in Macau.[citation needed]
