Advertising and public relations firm FD Communications Ltd has contributed K200,000 towards the Blantyre Press Club’s first annual general meeting scheduled for Mangochi. Speaking at the presentation of the cheque, PR & Corporate Communications Director Frank Phiri said the company is proud to be associated with the development of the journalism profession in Malawi which […]
Just two months after roping in Sports Writers Association of Malawi President Peter Kanjere, the Times Group has lost the services of their Sports sub editor Joy Ndovi. Ironically pointers show that Ndovi is crossing the floor to the Nation Publications Limited (NPL), where Kanjere came from. Kanjere was a News analyst at NPL before […]
Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM), the country’s premier mobile service provider, has given Blantyre Press Club (BPC) K1 million for the club’s annual general meeting (AGM) slated for September 18 2015. The club, which comprises scribes from the southern and eastern region, will hold a three-day AGM in the lake shore district of Mangochi. Speaking when he […]
Catholic Development Commission in Malawi (CADECOM), a relief and development arm of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) of the Catholic Church has urged Malawian journalists to write more stories concerning different policies that are formulated in the country but are not put into use. The plea was made at a two day Media Awareness […]
Malawi has scooped two of the four SADC media awards at the ongoing 35th summit of heads of state and government meeting being held in Gaborone, Botswana. Botswana and South Africa shared the remaining two awards. Bonnex Julius of Malawi’smedia giant, Times Group l emerged the victor in the Photojournalism category while Winston Mwale of […]
Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW)has bemoaned lack of specialisation of fact-based science reporting in the country’s media to address this challenge, MLW has introduced the Journalists in Resident which is aimed at enhancing its media engagement as part of its Public Engagement strategy. MLW, an affiliate of University of Malawi’s constituent College of Medicine, conducts biomedical research […]
Catholics in the world are commemorating 49th World Communications Day and in Malawi, the celebration of World Communication Sunday takes place during the last Sunday of July every year. This year, Malawi is celebrating the day on Sunday, 26 July. The Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) communications officer Prince Henderson has said Bishop Martin Mtumbuka, […]
Journalists are one of the mechanisms SADC could use to foster regional integration because by the nature of their work they allow can the popular participation of the citizenry in the body’s programmes and projects. SADC Head of Public Relations Lifa Martin said this during a media briefing at the Institute for the Advancement of […]
Malawi Police in administrative capital Lilongwe on Wednesday summoned award winning Nations Publications Limited (NPL) reporter Rabecca Chimjeka reportedly over some stories she has been doing pertaining to cashgate and widespread timber business involving some Cabinet Ministers. Chimjeka, a former Nyasa Times senior investigative reporter, was summoned to Central Region Police Headquarters in Area 3, according to […]
Malawian President Professor Peter Mutharika has accused his predecessor, Joyce Banda of being responsible for his negative publicity, saying she was paying Malawi journalists to write bad stories about his government. The President was speaking at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe Thursday on upon his arrival from the 40th anniversary of Mozambique’s independence celebrations. […]
Malawi Council for the Hand capped (MACOHA) has urgedjournalists in the country to use proper terminologies and language when writing stories of persons with disabilities. Speaking to Nyasa Times after a daylong Media Orientation Training on Disability Mainstreaming Reporting that brought together Journalists from Balaka and Ntcheu districts, Ernest Zgambo who is MACOHA’s Rehabilitation Officer […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has echoed what Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture Kondwani Nankhumwa said that journalists should put an end to the “glorification” of poverty in the media. Mutharika speaking a group of Malawian journalists in Sharma el Sheikh, Egypt on Thursday after signing the tripartite free trade area pact which enables free […]
As if to prove to the country that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has learnt nothing from their tragic legacy on poor governance, this week, the Peter Mutharika administration has audaciously announced that it will be introducing a new media gagging law. Presented to the House under the auspices of the Electronic Transactions Bill, the […]
Galaxy FM Radio reporters have not been paid their meagre per-story wages in the last six months without any convincing explanations, accusing their employer of being “insensitive.” Nyasa Times understands that the reporters, most of them stringers in almost all the districts in the country, were only rigorously used prior to the May 2014 tripartite polls […]
Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture Kondwani Nankhumwa has advised journalists to put an end to the “glorification” of poverty in the media. Nankhumwa made the appeal when he officially opened a day-long workshop for Association of Business Journalists (ABJ) members on emerging issues in Bvumbwe, Thyolo. Recently, leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera told parliament […]
The media in Malawi continues to perpetuate sexist and stereotypical representations of women. Look no further than the front page photos of Malawi’s daily newspapers- especially the coverage of the country’s recent floods: the photos depict women as victims, while men are portrayed as heroes or individuals who have powerfully endured the natural disaster. In […]
Britain has added its voice to the growing tributes of prominent Malawian journalist Raphael Tenthani who was killed in a car accident along the Lilongwe-Blantyre M1 Road on Saturday night. Kizito Tenthani said his brother was killed in a car accident at around 9 p.m. on Saturday evening after sustaining head injuries when the car […]
A cross section of Malawians are calling for an investigation into the car crash that killed prominent journalist Raphael Tenthani, but Malawians are being urged not to jump to conclusions about the cause. Speculations that the crash that killed Tenthani was not an accident were inevitable given the history of political murders in the country […]