OMGUS itself created a number of mass media institutions itself including the newspaper Die Neue Zeitung (biggest in postwar germany) in 1945 in Munich, Bavaria.

While initial US attitudes towards German press and media focused on denazification and the promotion of diversity, 1947 brought about a decidedly new focus on anti-Communism. Those who did not conform to the anti-Communist directives of OMGUS, "were either terminated or had their editors replaced.