Papua New Guinea news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 4 major Papua New Guinea news outlets. Preview their homepages side by side below — switch between two, three and four columns, go compact, or translate every page into your language.
The Papua New Guinea media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays Papua New Guinea's front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. All 4 titles tracked in Papua New Guinea sit near the editorial centre in our classification, which is common where the press is dominated by public broadcasters and agencies, or where no confident left/right rating was available. Comparison here is less about political line than about which stories each newsroom judges worth the top of the page.
By kind of outlet, the 4 titles break down as 2 daily newspapers (The National and PNG Post-Courier), 1 public broadcaster (NBC PNG) and 1 television news channel (EMTV Online). The public-service broadcaster is NBC PNG — the natural fixed point for a comparison, because a public remit is breadth rather than a party line.
Papua New Guinea sits in Melanesia, on Crosswire's Oceania hub. By outlets tracked it is 1st of the 4 countries in Melanesia and 4th of the 8 across Oceania, where the average is 4 outlets per country. Its neighbours in Melanesia with hubs of their own are Fiji (4), Solomon Islands (3) and Vanuatu (2).
Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of .
Which are Papua New Guinea's main news outlets?
Across Papua New Guinea's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists near the center, The National, PNG Post-Courier, EMTV Online and NBC PNG. Each outlet below links to a full profile — its facts, editorial leaning and a live front-page preview — and the comparison view above shows any of them side by side.
Papua New Guinea's largest-circulation English-language daily, published in Port Moresby since 1993. Owned by Malaysian timber and media group Rimbunan Hijau, it covers national politics, business, resource industries, sport and regional Pacific affairs, with correspondents across the provinces. Alongside the Post-Courier it is one of the two dominant print voices in PNG.
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.
Papua New Guinea's first commercial television station, on air since 1987, with EMTV Online as its national news website. Broadcasting from Port Moresby, EMTV is operated by Media Niugini under state-owned Kumul Telikom holdings, and its evening national news remains one of the country's most-watched television bulletins.
The National Broadcasting Corporation is Papua New Guinea's state broadcaster, established in 1973 ahead of independence. It runs the national Radio PNG network, provincial stations and NBC TV, and its website carries news from across the country. As the public broadcaster it reaches remote communities that commercial media rarely cover.
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