Fire broke out Friday evening at 89.8FM Voice of Busoga radio (VOB) station, destroying the production studio.

From Monday to Friday, I participated in a media workshop held by the Rwanda Initiative in the southern town of Butare.

WHAT should be the cost of a newspaper? US$2? A penny? The same as a cup of coffee? Others believe different amounts for different people.

The gazetting of a bill that seeks to regulate the media raises critical questions that government and media practitioners should ponder.

THREE South African nationals employed by the British Sky News channel who were arrested in Zimbabwe carrying broadcasting equipment and were later sentenced to six months in prison have been freed after a High Court judge reviewed the sentence and

THE World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has written to President Mugabe imploring his government to release its grip on the media and the flow of information from within and outside Zimbabwe.

Have you noticed how an increasing number of columnists in the state media are based abroad?

To my considerable surprise, there has been no word in the local newspapers about the demise of Nicholas Sebolao. Nick as he was known, died almost three weeks ago and was buried in Rockville, South Africa.

The film Memento provides the story of an insurance officer known as Leonard Shelby and his quest to throw revenge upon his assailants.

Earlier this year, small magazine distributor Ezweni formed a partnership with RNA, a subsidiary of Caxton and CTP, to take over a number of smaller existing outlets from RNA, as well as smaller titles that require individual attention.

Statistic Sierra Leone yesterday organized a one-day clinic for journalists at the presidential launch of the National Stadium, Freetown.

Executive Chairman of Daar Communications Plc, the parent company of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Ray Power 105. FM, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has described the eight years of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the worst in the annals of electronic

THE trial of the Standard Press, newspaper editor Davison Maruziva and MDC faction leader Arthur Mutambara opened last Thursday, with the defence asking for the three to be removed from remand.

A TWO-DAY workshop for journalists on parliamentary procedures and functions began here yesterday with participants calling for increased public participation in the legislative process.

The documentary by Christopher Gargot, a French filmmaker, entitled "D'Arusha à Arusha" (From Arusha to Arusha), which exposes the limits of the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for

The ongoing discussions on TV, radio, newspapers and the Internet on the need to make a law on transactions done electronically are timely.

The following is a 9 July 2008 IFEX-TMG letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy:

Reporters Without Borders and its partner organisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, Journalist in Danger (JED), are relieved to learn that Mila Dipenge of privately-owned TV station Télé Kindu Maniema in Kindu, the capital of the eastern province of Maniema,

CAXTON and Kagiso Media were cut to "underweight" by Morgan Stanley on concerns higher costs and falling demand will crimp profit.

On 11 July 2008, a Rabat court fined Al-Jazeera's Rabat bureau chief, Hassan Rachidi, 50,000 dirhams (approx. 4,500 euros) under article 42 of the press law because the Qatar-based satellite TV station wrongly reported in June that people were killed