Committee finds gaps in capacity

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Marty Gots a Plan

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Papua New Guinea's Parliamentary Committee on Communications, chaired by MP Marsh Narewec, has tabled a report following a two-year inquiry into the country's media industry, identifying seven priority problem areas and issuing 40 recommendations.

Findings include weak oversight and press-freedom enforcement, gaps between journalism education and industry needs, poor journalist welfare and safety, and stark infrastructure inequalities in rural and provincial broadcasting. Recommendations include stable funding for the Media Council of PNG via a new trust fund, structural reform of the National Broadcasting Corporation, a National Disinformation Taskforce, and a Media Freedom Rapid Response Unit involving police and the Ombudsman.

The report frames these as addressing institutional and capacity-building failures that have persisted for decades, tying media dysfunction to PNG's broader socio-economic development struggles since independence.

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Forty recommendations after fifty years of documented dysfunction is the kind of thoroughness that reads more like an inventory of neglect than a plan for fixing it. Whether any of this gets funded, or simply joins the shelf of previous well-intentioned reports, will say more about the government's priorities than the report itself ever could.

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