Malawi’s leading media institution, Times Group on Friday snubbed Friends of Limbani Golf Tournament which was organised in support of its former editor Limbani Moya, who worked for the institution close to 20 years.The company through its Chief Executive Officer Leonard Chikadya also cancelled a K100, 000 contribution towards an initiative. Chikadya is said to have been […]
Malawi’s leading media group Blantyre Printing and Publishing (Times Group) Chief Executive Leonard Chikadya on Monday cancelled a K100, 000 cheque; a contribution towards an initiative to raise funds for one of its fired editors Limbani Moya who is battling with chronic kidney failure disease and needs a kidney transplant in India. An accountant at […]
Two journalists Golden Matonga and Temwani Mgunda have left Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) also called Times Group, which used to be Malawi’s leading publishing company after securing a job at a rival Nations Publications Limited (NPL) Matonga (formerly current affairs at BNL) and Mgunda (formerly arts and entertainment at BNL) reported for their duties at […]
Renowned dancehall artists Blakjak and Capital FM head of programmes, Sam Kabambe, have joined the newly established private-owned television station Times TV. The two confirmed they have landed new jobs at Times TV, which is under Times Media Group. Blakjak, real name Fatsani Kalonda, joined the TV station a month ago whereas Kabambe, the current […]
Malawi’s giant newspaper company Times Group has apologised to President Joyce Banda on what one of its titles, Daily Times published which quoted the Head of State saying the law enforcement agencies recently arrested a public servant trying to loot from State coffers K400 millions. The ruling People’s Party (PP) spokesman Ken Msonda dismissed the […]
The Blantyre Magistrates Court on Wednesday afternoon convicted one of the senior reporters at Malawi’s oldest newspaper, The Daily Times, Kandani Ngwira in an extortion case. Ngwira was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and police officers in 2011 for allegedly extorting money from a Story Workshop senior official. The court made its judgment three […]
Malawi News on Saturday offered an apology to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair over a story they carried that ‘Malawians Pay for Blair’, admitting it was inaccurate and false reporting. The weekly in an apology published on its front page on Saturday said “it has come to our attention that the work Mr Tony […]
Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) also called Times Group has removed in circulation controversial tabloid The Weekend Times amid a pile of lawsuits and unclaimed losses. The news will be welcomed with mixed reactions with its critics celebrating at pains of its admirers especially fanatics of erotic page, Action Girl that use to feature practically nude […]
Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) the oldest print media house in Malawi, is at it again with the Malawi Revenue Authority(MRA) as the tax body is demanding K493 million accumulated through non payment of taxes. BP&P has several companies including Blantyre Newspapers Limited (or BNL Times Group) which publishes The Daily Times, Malawi News and The Sunday Times. […]
President Joyce Banda has been accused of threatening the thriving democracy and press freedom according to an editorial comment in the Malawi News following the lawsuit which Joyce Banda Foundation has filed against Blantyre Newspapers Limited (Times Group), the publishers of Daily Times, Malawi News, and Sunday Times newspapers. The newspaper publishing house has been […]
Malawi News Femail Supplement Editor Suzgo Khunga and Daily Times newspaper reporter Simeon Maganga have resigned from Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) also called Times Group, which used to be Malawi’s leading publishing company. Khunga has resigned from her position after securing a job at a rival Nations Publications Limited (NPL) whereas Maganga is joining Malawi […]
A week of retractions and apologies from the two dailies in Malawi. After The Daily Times retracted and apologised to the Principal Secretary for Education, Dr. Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo for associating her with the ‘kangaroo court ‘ for two gender activists, Jessie Kabwila and Seodi White, Malawi’s flagship daily The Nation has also retracted it’s comment […]
The Daily Times newspaper has apologised over claims that Secretary for Education Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo accompanied by two presidential aides = reportedly summoned and grilled two outspoken activists Seodi White and Jessie Kabwila for their remarks that they would not vote for President Joyce Banda just because she is a woman. The paper claimed that the […]
Famous Prophet TB Joshua has hired a Malawian journalist Isaac Masingati for his media department which includes Emmanuel TV, one of Africa’s largest Christian television networks with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, Masingati – a graduate in journalism from Polytechnic, University of Malawi – recently resigned from newspaper giant BNL Times Group where he was working […]
Nation Publications Limited (NPL) and Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) were the only media organizations in print and electronic category respectively which dominated the annual Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa – MISA-Malawi awards presentation ceremony held at Mount Soche hotel in Blantyre on Saturday. The awards were presented as part of commemorating […]
Malawi’s newspaper giant Times Media Group has fired Editor of its Daily Times, Dan Nyirenda. Nyirenda has fallen victim in what the company calls restructuring and re-organising process. Sources said Nyirenda received his letter informing him that his position is untenable at the daily paper on Tuesday. Nyirenda declined to comment when reached by phone. […]
Longest serving and most esteemed journalists Limbani Moya, Felix Mponda, Jack McBrams and Akwete Sande have been fired from Times Media Group in what the company calls restructuring and re-organising process. Moya was editor for Malawi News while Mponda deputy editor for the Sunday Times and Sande was a sub editor. McBrams was editor for […]
Communication Workers Union of Malawi (COWUMA) has decried the recent retrenchment at one of the Malawi’s oldest media giant, Times Media Group (formerly Blantyre Newspapers Limited) and has since taken up the matter with Ministry of Labour. The Times Group announced that it was downsizing its staff compliment as part of its re-organization and rationalizing […]