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dc.contributor.authorCass, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-16T00:07:04Z
dc.date.available2013-01-16T00:07:04Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.issn1023-9499
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/2024
dc.description.abstractThis article describes the historic conditions governing newspaper and media ownership in the Pacific. It argues that historically there have been three kinds of media in the Pacific: Mission or church-owned or directed, government- owned or directed and commercial. The missions and churches were responsible for the first newspapers aimed exclusively at indigenous populations and in Papua New Guinea have continued to play a key role in the media. The commercial press could only exist when there was a sufficient population to support it and so it tended to appear in those countries with the largest expatriate populations first. The continued dominance of the commercial media by Western companies in the largest islands has been largely due to the cost of producing these commodities. Locally-owned commercial media have been on a much smaller scale, but they have nonetheless had an impact. The national or government-owned or directed media were generally inherited from the departing metropolitan powers and represent a much diluted version of the public service model. While the article argues that the dominance of the commercial press in such markets as PNG, Fiji and New Caledonia by Murdoch and Dassault-Hersant is probably commercially inevitable, it also argues that the media scene in the Pacific is actually remarkably diverse.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centreen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.pjreview.info/en_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjecthistoric conditionsen_NZ
dc.subjectmedia ownershipen_NZ
dc.subjectPasifika commercial pressen_NZ
dc.subjectnewspaper ownershipen_NZ
dc.subjectPapua New Guineaen_NZ
dc.titleMedia ownership in the Pacific: Inherited colonial commercial model but remarkably diverseen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.rights.holderAUTen_NZ
dc.subject.marsden200104 Media Studiesen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationCass, P. (2004). Media ownership in the Pacific: Inherited colonial commercial model but remarkably diverse. Pacific Journalism Review, 10(2), 82.en_NZ
unitec.institutionUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.publication.spage82en_NZ
unitec.publication.lpage110en_NZ
unitec.publication.volume10en_NZ
unitec.publication.titlePacific Journalism Reviewen_NZ
unitec.peerreviewednoen_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaCommunication Studies


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