Four of the world’s largest news agencies have added their voices to the mounting tsunami of opposition against the proposed media appeals tribunal and Protection of Information Bill. Agence France Presse, The Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters have written to President Jacob Zuma, expressing their concerns.[more]

The Legislature has passed the Freedom of Information Act that originated from the Press Union of Liberia, and it now awaits the President signature to become. The bill will create an enabling environment that will ensure the easy access to information from government and non-governmental organizations operating in the country.[more]

HARARE – The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has resumed jamming news broadcasts from the UK-based SW Radio Africa, in a development that highlights how the freedoms of the press and expression remain under serious threat in Zimbabwe 18 months after the formation of a coalition government. In the latest onslaught on press freedom, the state’s spy agency last week jammed news broadcasts from the London-based SW Radio Africa[more]

TWO-year-old Cape Town TV (CTV) is challenging a decision by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to refuse it a permanent licence, arguing that the community television channel provides a valuable service, is a going concern and has made large investments in infrastructure.[more]

The Nation Media Group (NMG) a media conglomerate of regional newspapers and broadcast facilities across the region, has officially applied to the Capital Markets Advisory Council (CMAC) for a possible cross-listing of its shares to regional investors. The group owned by the Aga Khan made their formal application this week and are waiting for approval from CMA, the capital markets regulators.[more]

LUMKO Mtimde, CEO of the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), must be feeling horribly isolated now that virtually all media professional bodies and a broad consensus of civil society organisations have condemned the proposed media tribunal — which he supports. On the African National Congress (ANC) website recently, Mtimde mounted a defence of the media tribunal idea, questioning the ethics and accuracy of a journalism that promotes “commercial imperatives at the expense of media freedom”. [more]

The SABC and the DA are again at each other's throats, and looking by the intensity in which the two belligerents continue to exchange blows over the alleged 'news-for-sale-at R217 756.85' scandal, it looks like there is no end in sight for the fight.[more]

The president and CEO of the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa has told VOA that important stories about Africa continue to feature less prominently in mainstream American media outlets. According to the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa there is a need to demand positive coverage of Africa[more]

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has urged Cabinet Ministers to meet their financial obligations media institutions. [more]

Sep 06, 2010 (The Monitor/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Access-related barriers such as inadequate local content and the expensive infrastructure are among the factors hampering Uganda's internet penetration, a Google official has said. Google product and engineering Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa Nelson Mattos said out of 14 per cent of the world's population that use internet, the African continent accounts for only 2 per cent.[more]