Goal is balance & fairness in news & current affairs, accuracy & impartiality in voter education & equity in political advertising & direct access programming. Published by Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwee (MMPZ).

Bulletin d'Analyse sur les Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication. Lettre d'information électronique mensuelle publiée par OSIRIS l'Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal.

A forum for dialogue among policy-makers, programme practitioners, educators & evaluators. Published by Harvard Family Research Project.

Twenty-five journalists have been imprisoned because of their work under Joseph Kabila, according to Journaliste en Danger 2001 annual report.

On Friday 30 November 2001, the Botswana government published the contents of a draft Mass Media Communications Bill in the government gazette. MISA Botswana reports that local press groups, worried that the media bill proposed by the government would restrict free and independent reporting, have called for a public meeting to air their concerns and hear the public's perspective. The meeting will take place on 13 December.

The Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association is expressing concern over the alarming increase in the harassment of journalists, who have been summoned to the Central Investigation Office and often sentenced to jail terms by the government.

The week witnessed government’s endorsement of yet another draconian piece of legislation, termed the Public Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill to deal with perceived wayward journalists. This comes just a few weeks after the government announced that it intends to amend the electoral law; after President Robert Mugabe used his presidential powers to amend the Land Acquisition Act to legalise the controversial land reform programme; and lately, after the government approved the controversial Public Order Security Bill.

Over the past few months, columnist Colbert King of the Washington Post had used his columns to expose Christian Broadcast Network head Pat Robertson's gold mine quest and relationship with President Charles Taylor.

An HIV advertisement that depicts the remorse of a man who infected several women before testing positive, has led to threats to against the actor Sibusiso Mhlongo. Some viewers are apparently unable to tell the difference between the television character and the actor himself.

A planned 665 mile (1,070 km) pipeline from southern Chad to Cameroon's Atlantic coast promises riches for both countries - especially for dirt-poor and landlocked Chad whose economy could be transformed by around $2 billion in royalties over 25 years. But the scheme has drawn criticism from human rights and lobby groups worried about environmental damage and that revenues will not benefit ordinary people. Some campaigners have urged a halt until a firmer regulatory framework can be created.

This article will be punishable by up to two years in prison under the new media law that Robert Mugabe is likely to push through Zimbabwe's parliament this week. For a start, it quotes the Herald newspaper in Harare - a government propagandist rag with little regard for the truth or its plummeting circulation - for the want of a response from Zimbabwe's minister of information about the coming legislation.

An inquiry is attempting to establish why the Ten O'Clock News accused an African diamond firm of being linked to Osama bin Laden. Lawyers for the firm have served a writ on the BBC and the reporter involved, David Shukman. Forensic accountants have established the company lost up to £6m worth of business since the allegation was made at the end of October.

Tagged "Local Voices: Covering the ICASA for your listener", the pre-ICASA journalism workshop aims to increase the quantity and quality of broadcast coverage in Africa of the ICASA and to leverage greater HIV/AIDS awareness and activism by participating journalists and media managers. About a dozen African radio journalists will attend the workshop which holds on 7-8 December 2001. Thereafter, participants will also be able to participate in the ICASA, also holding in Ouagadougou 9-13 December.

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The government of Zimbabwe has approved the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill, which seeks to regulate the operations of the media in Zimbabwe and purportedly give access to information held by public bodies.

The Valley Trust, a non-profit organisation situated in Bothas Hill, KwaZulu-Natal is looking to employ a Fundraiser.