[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawian overnment has honoured its pledge by pronouncing its final verdict on the fate of employees of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). The decision has however left most of the workers with an egg on their faces in disbelief on how they have been demoted while others have had their salaries slashed by more than half.
2 Sep 2011 09:08[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawian government on 22 August 2011 called for an emergency meeting with officials of the Board of the state broadcaster, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), who were planning to go on strike on Tuesday August 23, 2011.
25 Aug 2011 09:15 [Gregory Gondwe] Employees of the state broadcaster, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) have threatened to go on strike to force management improve their working conditions and disparities in salaries between those working for the television section to those working for the radio section.
22 Aug 2011 13:33 
[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) radio has fired its sub-editor Joseph Mwale over a leaked recording of a conversation where President Bingu wa Mutharika's young brother, Professor Peter Mutharika was captured discussing his ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidature in the 2014 presidential elections.
22 Aug 2011 11:28
[Gregory Gondwe] Although a second planned anti-government mass demonstration that was slated for Wednesday 17 August 2011 was called off, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Regional Secretariat appealed to the Malawian government to ensure security of journalists during the demonstrations.
18 Aug 2011 12:56
[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi, on 20 July 2011, turned on its head as demonstrations against bad governance turned violent, prompting Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) to stop all privately-owned radio stations, which had been covering the proceedings live, from doing so. Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), Capital Radio and Joy Radio all confirmed receiving communication from MACRA to stop covering the demonstrations.
21 Jul 2011 13:32
[Gregory Gondwe] The Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA) has announced that, effective next year 2012, it will present the Best Practices Award to two media institutions, both electronic and print. Apart from the award, JUMA has also come up with a number of instruments expected to assist Malawian journalists.
13 Jul 2011 11:20
[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
Yesterday, Tuesday, 3 May 2011, was the 20th anniversary of
World Press Freedom Day, begun in Namibia as the Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of principles calling for a free, independent and pluralistic media throughout the world. Celebrations around the world were tempered with concerns about the erosion of press freedom and in South Africa, SANEF called on Government to review its proposed legislations that has seen SA downgrade from 'free press' to 'partly free'.
4 May 2011 09:13
WASHINGTON: The number of people worldwide with access to free and independent media declined to its lowest level in over a decade, according a Freedom House study released yesterday, 2 May 2011. The report,
Freedom of the Press 2011: A global survey of media independence, found that a number of key countries experienced significant declines, producing a global landscape in which only one in six people live in countries with a press that is designated Free.
3 May 2011 14:00
[Gregory Gondwe] Although the World Press Freedom Day Commemoration falls on 3 May every year, Malawi media started commemorating the day on 23 April 2011.
26 Apr 2011 07:31
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] As concern mounts over the fate of Anton Hammerl, a South African photographer missing in Libya alongside two US journalists and one Spanish photographer, the Presidency said yesterday, Wednesday, 20 April 2011, that President Jacob Zuma has been briefed on the attempts made by the SA mission in Libya to locate Hammerl. Reports from Washington DC also suggest that the White House is very concerned about their well-being and it is trying hard to assist them in any way it can.
21 Apr 2011 11:10
[Gregory Gondwe] Barely a week after finance Minister Ken Kandodo announced that Malawi's major donors are withholding more than US$400 million in aid in protest over government's repressive media laws and bad governance, a grouping of donors under the Common Approach to Budgetary Support (CABS) have also sent a warning shot over the same issue.
25 Mar 2011 06:31
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The fundamental reason that many African governments ban and harass the media has more to do with personal connotations than other issues, Kenya's Henry Maina, director of Article 19 Eastern Africa, told delegates at the two-day
Regulations and Rights media conference last week in Johannesburg.
16 Mar 2011 10:22
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