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A Country Failed by its Media: A Case Study From Papua New Guinea

Paper presented at the 13th AMIC Annual Conference, ‘Impact of New & Old Media on Development in Asia’, 1-3 July 2004 (2004), 25 pp.
"This paper explores the role of media in PNG and the reasons why they have failed to serve their audiences. It provides a background on media development in PNG; explores media ownership in PNG and offers a content analysis of what the two main newspapers and the country’s only television station consider to be the main news agenda. It also explores the potential radio has in filling in the existing informational gap." (Abstract)