Media co-regulation in Zimbabwe: The scores and challenge ahead

I FORTUITOUSLY attended an editors’ engagement meeting convened by the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) in Harare on July 24, 2024 wherein discourse on reforming the media regulatory framework took centre stage.

The objective of the forum was to spotlight the state of media professionalism and ethics and to identify the gaps and opportunities to enhance journalistic standards.

The deputy chief secretary in the office of the President and Cabinet responsible for communications, George Charamba, who was among the guest presenters at the engagement, had issued a public complaint on a news story carried in one of the mainstream local dailies, NewsDay, that prompted the ZMC intervention.

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