All the news
Police assault journalist
Lovemore Meya, a correspondent with The Herald was on 5 January 2016 severely assaulted by anti-riot police while covering clashes between commuter omnibus touts and residents in Harare’s dormitory town of Chitungwiza recently.
Parliament renounces stringent accreditation requirements
The Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has renounced earlier stringent accreditation requirements for journalists who cover parliament requiring them to be first cleared by the police. This...
MISA launches inaugural rural information kiosk
Villagers in Habane under Zimbabwe’s Umzingwane constituency in Matabelelend South Province will now have the opportunity to receive and share information after MISA Zimbabwe launched an information...
UPDATE: MISA criminal defamation case postponed
Hearing in the constitutional application by MISA-Zimbabwe and four others seeking for an order declaring criminal defamation unconstitutional in terms of the new constitution, was on 22 July 2015...
Open letter to the African Union on xenophobic attacks
MISA is among more than 100 African human rights organisations that are concerned about the xenophobic attacks in South Africa against migrants and refugees.
So this is democracy? State of media freedom in 2013
Since its foundation in 1992, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has been the primary advocate for media freedom and freedom of expression in southern Africa, issuing alerts on media...
MISA petitions for transformation of ZBC into a public service broadcaster
MISA-Zimbabwe on 24 June, 2015, commissioned its petition for the transformation of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) into a truly representative and independent public service broadcaster...
Zimbabwe to miss digitisation deadline
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) on 11 June said Zimbabwe will miss the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) digital migration deadline set for 17 June 2015.
All eyes on digital migration process
MISA Zimbabwe this week launched the first of its monthly digital migration monitoring reports, aptly entitled Digital Migration Footprints. The Digital Migration Footprints series is an analysis of...