Foreign newspapers to be banned in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has reportedly enlisted the service of the police in a bid to stop foreign newspapers without local offices from circulating. Publications that might be affected include: The Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian, Business Day and The Zimbabwean. 6 Feb 2012 12:12

Zimpapers will continue to uplift, guard nation's interests

KADOMA, ZIMBABWE: Zimpapers will continue playing its part in uplifting and guarding the nation's common interests through its publications while making no apologies about that stance, Zimpapers chief executive Justin Mutasa has said. 20 Jan 2012 10:00

Alleged editors' bribery saga: PM to sue media outlets

Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has instructed his lawyers to institute legal proceedings in response to stories implicating him in an alleged journalists bribery scam. 16 Jan 2012 12:56

Zimpapers to launch radio station within five months

VUMBA: The Zimpapers board chairman has congratulated the company's management for successfully bidding for a radio licence as it moves to expand its national and regional market share both in the print and electronic media. 13 Jan 2012 13:29

New look for The Zimbabwean

The Zimbabwean will introduced a 'new look' on Thursday, 12 January 2012. The new look will round-up general news, with a focus on news analysis, feedback from readers, profiles and other features. 12 Jan 2012 10:53

Zimbabwe: PM Tsvangirai to sue state media

A legal battle looms between prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the state media following the publication of stories alleging that the MDC-T leader bribed private media editors to stop them from writing damaging articles about his party and love affairs. 9 Jan 2012 10:27

The Herald reaffirms market dominance

The Herald recently reaffirmed its dominance by scooping the Superbrand of the Year Award in the print media category for 2011 for the second year running, at an event held by the Marketers' Association of Zimbabwe (ZAM) to honour the country's most preferred brands. 20 Dec 2011 11:37

Malawi-Zimbabwe twinning programme launches 'Brain Trust'

The Malawi-Zimbabwe Executive Twinning Programme, an innovative new WAN-IFRA project that matches two newspaper groups in Malawi with two newspaper groups in Zimbabwe for a series of exchanges including newspaper study tours, job shadowing and collaboration on business projects, entered a new phase with the launch of the Twinning Programme Brain Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa. 17 Nov 2011 15:26

Zimbabwe: Police raid on newsroom condemned

Media organisations have condemned the recent police raid on The Standard newspaper's offices, saying such actions were detrimental to the development and growth of press freedom in Zimbabwe. 14 Nov 2011 10:32

Southern Times relaunched in city

Southern Africa's premier paper, The Southern Times, a joint venture between Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited and New Era of Namibia, was officially relaunched on Thursday, 3 November 2011, in Harare, Zimbabwe. 7 Nov 2011 10:47

Standard journalists scoop awards

The National Journalistic and Media Awards (NJAMA) presentation which took place on Friday night, 7 October 2011, belonged to The Standard newspaper, as five of its journalists took the first prize in most of the categories they were nominated in. A sixth reporter was runner-up in a category he won last year. 10 Oct 2011 13:43

Blantyre Newspapers dismisses 44 employees

[Gregory Gondwe] The month of August seemed to have casted a bad spell on Malawi media as on the day that state broadcaster, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) retained over 400 employees out of over 700, Malawi's oldest newspaper company, the Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) fired 44 employees. 1 Sep 2011 10:11

African people disillusioned with leadership - Moeletsi Mbeki

[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] "African people - like me - are completely disillusioned with the performance of their leaders because of what they have done and what they are doing, and for me these people should not be called leaders, but rather the elite," Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki and chairman of the SA Institute of International Affairs, said, speaking at the CNN-MultiChoice media forum currently taking place in Bryanston, Johannesburg, on Friday, 24 June 2011. 24 Jun 2011 11:56

In Zimbabwe, break-in at newspaper targets photos

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Zimbabwean authorities to thoroughly investigate a suspicious break-in at a newspaper's office on Thursday, 16 June 2011. 20 Jun 2011 09:16