PNG Post-Courier
Founded in 1969 and published in Port Moresby, the Post-Courier is Papua New Guinea's oldest daily newspaper, historically majority-owned by News Corp. The English-language daily reports on politics, law and order, business and rugby league, and has been a fixture of PNG public life since before independence in 1975.
PNG Post-Courier at a glance
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Region
- Melanesia · Oceania
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- postcourier.com.pg ↗
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How Crosswire groups PNG Post-Courier
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Where PNG Post-Courier sits in Papua New Guinea's press
PNG Post-Courier is one of 4 outlets tracked in Papua New Guinea, and one of 2 daily newspapers among them — the other being The National. By outlets tracked, Papua New Guinea ranks third of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.
Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to PNG Post-Courier outside Papua New Guinea, starting with Melanesia, are Island Sun (Solomon Islands), Vanuatu Daily Post (Vanuatu), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand). Opening one of them beside PNG Post-Courier is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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