Harare – The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) yesterday issued licenses to four daily newspapers, including The Daily News that was banned by the Media and Information Commission (MIC) in 2003, turning a fresh page for the country’s media landscape, which had been suffocated by the shortage of alternative voices in the dailies section.[more]

Tension between the Muslim community and the Mail & Guardian newspaper eased this week after the paper apologised for publishing a cartoon depicting prophet Muhammad. [more]

Nation Media Group exerted its position as the leading media house in the region by bagging four of the 15 awards at the CNN Multichoice Africa Journalist of the Year Awards.[more]

The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) held a press conference in Harare on late Wednesday and announced some very good news for Zimbabweans - the licensing of four daily newspapers and one weekly.[more]

The Chief Justice, Benjamin Odoki, has asked the Government to consider reviewing the existing media laws in light of the Supreme Court ruling that annulled the law on publication of false news.[more]

The presence of media hangman Tafataona Mahoso in a structure viewed as ushering in a new dawn for Zimbabwe’s strangled media has become a sore point for local journalists and watchdog groups.[more]

The contretemps last weekend in which MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was taken to task by permanent secretary in the Media ministry George Charamba for seeking to address members of the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) is illustrative of the problems the commission faces in the fulfilment of its duties. The announcement on Wednesday that licenses will be issued to a number of publishing houses, including this one, doesn’t really change the character of those problems.[more]

Somalia’s hardline insurgent group, Al-Shabaab has suspended all its relations with the London-based Somali TV channel, Universal, accusing it of deliberately broadcasting insulting materials including sacrilegious cartoons disgracing Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

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Pretoria - The Angolan Social Communication minister, Carolina Cerqueira, Monday in Pretoria, South Africa, spoke of the need for press attaches to publicise Government achievements, as a way of promoting the image of the country abroad.[more]

The granting of licenses to five publishers this week could change the media landscape in Zimbabwe for the benefit of consumers and journalists, media organisations and employers have said.[more]