In 1973, it was generally agreed that jurisdiction over the media should be unified in a single agency. So the Executive Yuan took publication industry affairs from the Ministry of the Interior, and film and broadcast affairs out of the Bureau of Education and Culture, and moved both to the GIO. The GIO doubled in size overnight, assuming its current structure of six departments and three divisions.
直到民國六十二年，輿論傾向大眾傳播事業的管理應該事權統一，行政院於是進行規劃，將原屬內政部的出版業務、教育文化局的電影和廣播電視業務，劃規統屬新聞局，新聞局一下子膨脹了一倍，變成六處三室，粗具今日的規模。