New York, October 15, 2009—The editor-in-chief of

New York, October 15, 2009—The editor-in-chief of
Some Zimbabwean journalists say 2003 was the most repressive year for independent journalists. Others claim it was 2008. But no one is yet claiming it was 2009 after a recent series of positive developments for the country's media.

New York, May 14, 2009--Police in

On Thursday, the U.S.-based National
Association of Black Journalists announced the winner of its 2009 Percy
Qoboza Foreign Journalists Award: Zimbabwean
journalist Anderson Shadreck Manyere. Half a world away, however,
Manyere, left, lingered in a hospital in the capital,
New York, March 13, 2009--The Zimbabwean
attorney general's office should halt a baseless criminal investigation into
human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
today.Filmmaker Robyn Kriel, 25, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, spoke to PBS' Wide Angle last week about the risks she took reporting from Zimbabwe in the lead-up to the country's 2008 presidential election. Last April, CPJ closely followed the case of Kriel's mother, Margaret Kriel, who was imprisoned for four days on accusations of "practicing journalism without accreditation." You can listen to the interview here.
Dear Prime Minister: The decision to form a unified government in Zimbabwe has created a welcome opportunity to address oppressive government decrees and media laws that have long stifled press freedom. Your party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has long made freedom of the press a central policy and you have repeatedly stated your aspirations to privatize the state-controlled media.
Using their cell phones, Africans are avid consumers of electronic information. For reporters, text messaging is an essential tool. It's a brave (and risky) new world. By Tom Rhodes...
President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party, startled by balloting that threatened their 28-year rule, unleashed a brutal crackdown on opposition supporters and the press. Veteran journalist Geoff Hill described the weeks between the first round of voting in March and a runoff in June as “the worst time for...