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    After 1995, 2000 and 2005, now Zanzibar in 2010
    IAM excited at the prospect of skirmish-free and peaceful general elections in Zanzibar this time around. It all augurs well for democratic governance in the fabled Spice Islands. The previous three general elections in the Isles – from 1995 to 2005 – have not been a bed of roses. Those have
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 6th September 2010 @ 00:03, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 412
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    We are not beggars;let us have that money please
    GENERAL elections or any elections for that matter are about the enhancement of democracy. This is how it should be as all political parties; all aspirants for the various political offices at stake, all registered voters and all the people are entitled to an equitable, comprehensive and wider
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 16th August 2010 @ 00:51, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 748
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    Presidential aspirants deserve all respect
    FREE and fair democratic elections are also about free and fair media coverage. The media is expected to exercise the profession of the Fourth Estate’s cardinal rule of objectivity during election time. It is potentially dangerous for a section of the media to start taking sides – openly that is –
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 8th August 2010 @ 12:11, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 908
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    Good job by the media, so far
    THE media in Tanzania has in recent weeks been very busy as the countdown to the general elections begun in earnest with all political parties making initial preparations for the grand occasion. There has been no shortage of election-related news as the ruling CCM and other parties kicked off
    Author: By GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 1st August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 838
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    The Big Election Reporter Dilemma
    The on and off election fever is now on again, in fact very much on. It is time when all newsrooms are at their busiest, all of them keen at giving their readers, listeners and viewers the best election coverage ever –and capitalize on sales. Campaign teams at the headquarters of all political
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 25th July 2010 @ 12:38, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1203
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    How safe are journalists?
    JOURNALISTS, mostly from those countries known for their repressive tendencies, have often found themselves in very difficult situations, suffering untold harassment and intimidation – and even extermination – for telling the truth and exposing high profile crime, including grand corruption.
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 18th July 2010 @ 13:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 778
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    The fun is here;media should make full use of
    ELECTION years are harvest years for the media,news wise that is, as there is no shortage of events to cover. Tanzanians will go to the polls in October to election the Union and Zanzibar presidents, MPs, Members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives and councilors. The fun has already
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 11th July 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1011
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    Media has a vital role to play in 2010 elections
    TANZANIANS will later this year go to the polls to elect the Union and Zanzibar presidents, MPs, Members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives and, on the Mainland, councilors. The general elections, coming after every five years, will be held in October. The excitement is already on. It is
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 4th July 2010 @ 12:01, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1331
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    Those election year newspapers
    ELECTION years are interesting times. They are occasions when all aspirants for the various political offices at stake need publicity. They are occasions when the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate, be it in newspapers, radio or television, make sudden friends – and sometimes, sudden money.
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 28th June 2010 @ 00:02, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 974
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    On the 2010 campaign trail
    CAMPAIGNS are a busy and exciting periods during election years. It is harvest time for many newsrooms for that is the time when candidates for political office from all parties literally do the ‘cross-country’’ in search of the vital votes. They are a hectic time for everybody, particularly
    Author: By GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 13th June 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 622
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    It's all about citizen journalism
    THERE are lots of people outta there who though they have never seen the inside of a journalism schol or served as media practitioners (yes, our newsrooms have got people who somehow found themselves in journalism without actually passing through a journalism school) can write. They are good
    Author: By GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 6th June 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 733
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    Journalists should be journalists
    JOURNALISM is a profession for ladies and gentlemen with an inquisitive mind. That is primary, but there are other attributes. You must have a good ear – for listening and a probing eye -- for seeing. Journalism is about reporting and giving the readers what they want. A good journalist is
    Author: By GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 31st May 2010 @ 02:27, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 663
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    US embassy attack reports not media creation
    THE country’s media last week had a field day – this time concerning an alleged attempt to attack the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam. The governmentowned ‘HabariLeo’ was the first local newspaper to break the news. Others followed suit. Now, such classified information is a very
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 23rd May 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 1085
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    Adding to the brains of the red-sniper swallow
    THE saying of the wise ‘’AKILI za kuambiwa, changanya na zako’’, which could be described to mean ‘’Think before you leap’’ or in its more literal meaning, ‘’Don’t take for granted anything you are told, add your own wisdom’’, still rings a bell in the local political context. Know what I
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 16th May 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1061
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    One should be proud to be a journalist
    I AM proud to be a journalist; after all it is my chosen profession. The same should apply to thousands of other journalists all over the world who chose to be members of the Fourth Estate and chose to remain there. Journalism is a respectable profession like any other and that is why there are
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 9th May 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 890
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    End of the ‘he said this yesterday’ journalism
    AS a trainee reporter way back in the 1970s, I remember being asked to do something very unethical by my boss. Some regional commissioner upcountry (name withheld) had called to complain that there was no reporter to cover his public rally and offered to play journalist himself by telling us what
    Author: By GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 2nd May 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1028
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    Politics isn’t the only news
    ON a working tour of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state of Dubai a year and a half ago, I had an opportunity to enquire from our hosts, the secret behind the emirate’s almost 100 per cent political bliss and general peace despite its proximity to the volatile Middle East. The answer was
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 18th April 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 1005
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    Elections are good tests of responsible journalism
    I HAVE had an opportunity to attend a number of seminars related to media coverage of this year’s general elections slated for October. They have all been lively sessions in which members of the Fourth Estate have been reminded of their journalistic obligation to always remain fair in their
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 11th April 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1152
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    Wishing Zanzibar all the best this election year
    I had two stints as bureau chief for my newspapers in Zanzibar in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the first time between 1997 and 1999 and the other time between 2000 and 2002, six years in total. My ‘jurisdiction’ covered both Unguja and Pemba islands. How eventful six years they had been for
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 4th April 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1265
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    Avoid pitfalls in election reporting
    NON-partisanship in coverage of elections by the media is not only key; it helps achieving free and fair polls. This is an election year and readers should brace to see both good and bad journalism as far as media coverage is concerned. Like in the previous elections, readers should also expect
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 28th March 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1358
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    Change we can, journalists
    ONE fine ‘summer’ evening in Dar es Salaam over a decade ago, I was at this function to open a new hotel in the city’s northern beach as a media invitee; as my newspapers’ news editor to be exact. I had an invitation card that was followed by numerous phone calls to me urging me to attend. Now
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 21st March 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1170
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    The media can help make this year’s elections free and fair
    ELECTIONS are very important happenings in the life of any country that has embraced democracy. It is a good thing that Tanzania is no exception. By one definition, an election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. They have
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 14th March 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1432
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    The media should analyse news, not take it for granted
    THE media in the country, I am afraid to say, has just parroting the news instead of presenting it in the expected professional way, that is exhausting all checks and balances and analyzing them. Our newspapers, for example, have been mostly carrying one-sided stories without caring to check on
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 7th March 2010 @ 20:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1160
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    That’s a valid challenge from the president, let’s take it
    ADDRESSING a Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) in Mwanza last week, President Jakaya Kikwete did not mince any words as far as perpetrators of the vice in the country are concerned. He did not spare even the media, pointing out that some of the personnel in it were prone to
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 1st March 2010 @ 03:54, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 2356
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    From the august houses’ press galleries with love
    COVERAGE of the proceedings in the Union Parliament and the Zanzibar House of Representatives is an exciting job. Gives reporters with a great opportunity to hear and see with their own ears and eyes what is happening in the august houses. It also provides the ladies and gentlemen of the
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 14th February 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1911
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    Media personnel as crime busters!
    THE Inspector-General of Police Said Mwema has joined the ranks of the prominent ladies gentlemen who have found out that the media, or profession of the Fourth Estate, can play an effective part in various societal roles – and in the case of Saidi, the battle against crime in the country. In
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 31st January 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 2192
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    Towards an independent editors forum
    EFFORTS at forming a truly independent editors’ forum in the country are going on. One can see it coming. Saw some of the forum’s organising committee members last week and in our conversation it was crystal clear that they are up to something good. In sharp contrast with the past, the new
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 24th January 2010 @ 15:01, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1985
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    Let Mkuchika do his job
    IT does not have anything to do with press freedom or media freedom. It has got a lot to do with self-regulation, professionalism and ethics. In all fairness, the Minister for Information, Culture and Sports, Captain George Mkuchika, not the one to brook any nonsense, recently banned from a
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 17th January 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 1661
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    Schools of journalism must churn out good products
    UNLIKE in the past when aspiring journalists depended on the then Nyegezi Social Training Centre and later the Tanzania School of Journalism (TSJ) or universities abroad for their professional training needs, the choice is now wide with the establishment of schools of journalism in almost all
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 10th January 2010 @ 15:02, Total Comments: 9, Total people who read this story: 1975
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    What to expect from the media in 2010
    THE media was united in the just ended week with the death of Mzee Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa, one of the great sons and daughters of this country, last Thursday. Even in death, Kawawa proved that despite all that had been written or said against him in the past could not erode the love many
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 3rd January 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1674
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    Down with the envelope syndrome
    THESE are really trying times in the profession of the Fourth Estate. For heaven’s sake and for crying out aloud, how can a reporter exercise journalistic probity when at the end of some function, envelopes containing good old cash exchange hands? The South Africans call it ‘payola’; the
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 27th December 2009 @ 15:03, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1650
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    Time for the media to prove its worth
    THESE are really trying times for the nation and media. There seems to be sharp divisions or differing opinion within the various organs that shape the opinion of the people. This is exactly the time when the media, in its various forms, need to display its credentials in terms of fair coverage
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 20th December 2009 @ 15:01, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 2201
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    Whither investigative journalism?
    THERE has recently been an interesting observation that there is really no such thing as investigative journalism. According to one journalism guru, investigation journalism is the way it should be. All newspapers, he says, are required to publish stories -- all stories - that are well
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 13th December 2009 @ 15:02, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1638
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    Is the media guilty of climate ‘porn’?
    CLIMATE change is a subject that has preoccupied almost all world citizens as an international effort is underway to correct the ‘wrongs’ that have contributed to the deteriorating environment all over the world. Media is one of the institutions that have dealt with the issue on a broader
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 30th November 2009 @ 01:15, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1885
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    How reliable are ‘reliable sources’?
    INFORMATION, education and entertainment are the main things readers dig deep in their pockets to buy newspapers to get. They are three main aspects media owners must always strive to publish to satisfy the diverse demands of their readers – and viewers and listeners in the case of the
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 22nd November 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1698
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    IN 2010, the media must be independent
    IF there is one place politicians, especially those who aspire for elected offices rush to during election years, then that place is the media houses. That is when 'friendships' are made between the aspirants and editors and reporters. Now, it is not exactly a bad thing for politicians and
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 16th November 2009 @ 02:59, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1605
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    A sober media is a good media
    THAT the media share part of the blame for a number of deadly upheavals all over the world is in no doubt at all. The media is a tool that can reach millions of people within minutes. In the present digital age, TV watchers can view events live as they happen. Media power can be used or misused
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 8th November 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1708
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    Is journalism really on the decline in Tanzania?
    A hot debate is currently going on the issue of declining of quality of journalism in the country. Have been reading this local online forum on a number of key national issues and seen the barrage of attacks against the local version of the Fourth Estate industry. As a newspaper editor, let me
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 2nd November 2009 @ 07:45, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1917
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    When an SA scribe asks who Tanzania’s current president is
    I was in South Africa recently. Travelled to this quiet but enchanting small city in the Eastern Cape Province called Grahamstown where the famous Rhodes University is. The eight-day stay was full of surprises. I had thought that after years of much interaction with the comrades from the Land
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 28th October 2009 @ 03:48, Total Comments: 23, Total people who read this story: 2535
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    Should journalists belong to any political party?
    THE answer to the question above, in my point of view, is straightforward. Yes, they can. After all, it is their constitutional right. Isn’t it? It is like in sports. Many sports reporters I know subscribe to one team or another, both local and foreign. In my own newsroom, there are both Yanga
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 18th October 2009 @ 12:40, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1725
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    Politics, government and the news media
    It is obvious after centuries of much interaction that politics, government and the news media need each other. The growth of the metropolitan newspaper, the national newspaper and radio and TV has brought about more openness and transparency in governance of nations right from the electoral
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 12th October 2009 @ 01:11, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1390
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    Are journalists born or made?
    OF course it is an old debate – and in my opinion, I would say that both apply, journalists are both born and made, meaning some are born and some are made. There is a school of thought that firmly believes that journalists are born. There is also another which believes that journalists are
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 27th September 2009 @ 19:00, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 2264
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    A corrupt media is a bad media
    Good governance is a wider concept that is a good measure of democracy in countries where the government of the people for the people and by the people ideal is enshrined in their constitutions. The concept revolves around a transparent and open government, adherence to the rule of law,
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 20th September 2009 @ 16:34, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1635
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    The line between journalism and activism
    ACCORDING to one description, journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the cell phone. I buy this description. The professionals
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 7th September 2009 @ 00:22, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 2046
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    Media gaffes and 2010 elections
    IT is no secret that some media owners and editors are in the payroll of some political parties and individual politicians, especially at this time when all attention is focused on next year’s general elections. That explains the gaffes and the biased reporting readers see in the newspapers in
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 31st August 2009 @ 02:07, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 2277
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    Bill Clinton, Jailhouse Rock and media fun
    THE media world – and the whole world – rejoiced last week when former US President Bill Clinton managed to secure the release of two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been sentenced to hard labour in some North Korean jailhouse for ‘’entering the Far-Eastern country
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 10th August 2009 @ 01:40, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 2962
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    Goodbye Fleet Street
    FLEET Street, that legendary thoroughfare in downtown London that has been synonymous with 300 years of journalism is no more. It has bid farewell to its last newsroom when the French news agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) moved office yesterday. But Fleet Street will continue to evoke
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 27th July 2009 @ 00:19, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 2205
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    When senior editors and 'Kanjanja' brush shoulders
    A soldier is a soldier, whether a general or a private. It is the same with the media. Whether one is a chief editor or trainee reporter, they are all journalists. Yet there is the question of seniority. In military discipline, the command line is very clear. That's why we see all that saluting
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 20th July 2009 @ 07:23, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 2153
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    Media and politics
    STRANGE bed fellows, it might seem at first sight. But media men and women and politicians have ‘enjoyed’ a relationship of sort since the world knew about the media and politics. It is more evident in contemporary times. They both need each other, aren’t they? Especially at national level;
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 14th July 2009 @ 01:28, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1475
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    Writing objectively
    IN journalism context, according to one definitin, objectivity is understood as synonymous with neutrality. Journalism is about impartiality, objectivity, fainess and balanced view. Unfortunately, not many journalists would make a claim to total neutrality or impartiality. However, some strive
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 6th July 2009 @ 02:18, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1677
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    Samuel Sitta and the media
    SAMUEL Sitta, the current Speaker of the Parliament of Tanzania, is very conversant with the media scene in the country. He should be. The man has been in public service for too long to know better. For the uninitiated about Double S, he has been corporation secretary, deputy minister, minister
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 28th June 2009 @ 11:19, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 2015
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    What misuse of the media!
    THE media, in all its forms, whether print, electronic and now online, has a got a very important role to play in societies by informing, entertaining and educating. Just imagine a world without newspapers, radio and television. It would certainly be an empty and very lonely world. Newspapers,
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 22nd June 2009 @ 02:48, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1773
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    Press freedom is a right, not privilege
    HUNDREDS of senior editors, politicians and activists from all over the world will from June 6 to 9 attend IPI World Congress and 58th General Assembly to be held at the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland. What is IPI? In October 1950, 34 editors from 15 countries met at Columbia University in
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 1st June 2009 @ 03:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1930
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    JK and the media
    President Jakaya Kikwete loves the media and the media loves him, there is no doubt about that. In fact, the president of the fourth phase Tanzanian government has been closer to the fourth estate professionals to the extent of putting himself on first name terms relations with them than any other
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 26th May 2009 @ 04:20, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 1859
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    Media, democracy and informed choices
    Making a decision on who to vote for during any election at any level of national life very much depends on the impeccability of the candidate’s credentials that include his or her capability to lead and deliver the required goods. Now how does one know? How does one come to a firm decision on
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 18th May 2009 @ 00:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1552
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    When editors, reporters take sides!
    Journalism is about impartiality, it is about fairness, it is about balanced coverage and it is about taking no sides. But taking sides is what some of the local media organs have been doing over the years – and there have been true cases to prove this. Tanzanians have fresh memories of the
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 11th May 2009 @ 05:07, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1473
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    Local media and 2010 elections
    General elections are interesting and news ‘harvest’ times for the local media, both print and electronic. It is even time when new newspapers and radio stations are launched only to fold up after the elections are over. Now that is what could better be described as opportunistic, when some
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 4th May 2009 @ 00:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1638
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    Local media and 2010 elections
    General elections are interesting and news ‘harvest’ times for the local media, both print and electronic. It is even time when new newspapers and radio stations are launched only to fold up after the elections are over. Now that is what could better be described as opportunistic, when some
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 27th April 2009 @ 02:48, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 2038
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    Training makes perfect media
    NO matter the strength of credentials one holds in journalism, whether a first degree, masters, diploma or just a certificate, it is performance that mostly and solely counts. Whether working for a Kiswahili media or an English one, it is the end-product that would reflect on the practitioner's
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 20th April 2009 @ 02:43, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1587
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    How noble is journalism?
    IT has somehow come to be accepted that journalism is a noble profession. In many ways, the profession -- or the ladies and gentlemen – in it have proved this to be the case. In the present digital age, there is some popular phrase in the settings mode that reads ‘Message Sent’, meaning that the
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 6th April 2009 @ 03:13, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1598
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    Journalism: Stepping stone to prosperity?
    There are many examples of personalities who rose to national and international prosperity after some stint in journalism. The late Namdi Azikiwe, the first president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was a journalist. He even owned a newspaper.After he was replaced following a military coup in
    Author: Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 23rd March 2009 @ 02:05, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1633
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    Interesting media times
    These are truly interesting media times. Despite all the hullabaloo on presumed suppression of media freedom, the country continues to enjoy a vibrant, and largely, free media that is free to report on anything, comment on anything and draw cartoons on anything.Those of us who have stayed, in fact
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 2nd March 2009 @ 01:16, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1444
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    To report or not to report albino killings
    There is a hot debate going around newsrooms on whether it is wise or not to continue to report about the albino killing scourge that has swept across Tanzania with the force of the post-2004 Christmas Tsunami. One school of thought thinks that continuation of such reports will only escalate the
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 23rd February 2009 @ 01:30, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1795
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    Training would make a perfect journalist
    There is no doubt about that. Further training is the only way to mould better journalists who would be able to deliver as per expectations. In the present era of globalization, local journalists should be wary of the stiff competition posed in the international lab our market for media personnel
    Author: GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 11th February 2009 @ 01:11, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1917
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