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Zambia: State of the media report available now

The 2015 second quarter report outlining the state of the media in Zambia is available now for download here. MISA Zambia launched the report at a formal event at the Cresta Golfview Hotel in Lusaka on September 2, 2015. The event attracted close to 45 key stakeholders from academia, civil society, government and the journalism fraternity at large.

Highlights of the report are the complexities around the digital migration process in Zambia as well as analysis of the delays around the enactment of access to information legislation in Zambia.

In his keynote address, Forum for Democratic Process (FODEP) Executive Director, Macdonald Chipenzi stated that media freedom in Zambia had only seen a marginal improvement under the PF government as journalists have continued to suffer double tragedy through increased incidences of harassment and intimidation in the midst of draconian legislation that criminalises the freedom of expression on the national statutes and low pay among others.

The meeting resolved to draft a petition on the ATI bill and meet the minister of information to present the said petition as a build up to the convening of Parliament later this month.

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