Times TV presenter Brian Banda has emerged as Malawi media best talk show host after being presented with an award at this year’s Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Malawi World Press Freedom Day gala awards at the Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu. Banda, former host of Capital FM Straight Talk interview programme, received his […]
One famous Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov once said: “I am a passionate supporter of [press] freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn’t need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn’t need water.” The media throughout […]
Axa Bus Company, one of the leading bus service providers, has provided Misa Malawi with a Deluxe Coach to Misa Malawi for its members to travel to Mzuzu where they will celebrate this year’s World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) Saturday May 3. The celebrations will be held under the theme ‘Let Journalism Thrive: Towards Better Reporting, […]
Malawi is more than interesting, and can pass for a perfect laboratory test item. This is one country where everything thing else is gone awry wrong. With all priorities flipped upside down. Even the kids are spending more time in virtual worlds on cell phones, punctuated by premature sex overtures. Meanwhile, as the law enforcers […]
BBC recently reported that the average Malawian spends more than MK5400 (US$12) a month. That’s more than half the average monthly income in Malawi. Proportionate to earnings, Malawi has the most expensive mobile phone rates in the world. There is no shortage of complaints within Malawi about expensive phone tariffs but this report (based on […]
Hundreds of people converged at College of Medicine mortuary to pay their last respects to Malawi veteran journalist and trainer Edward Chitsulo who died on Sunday morning at Adventist Hospital after a short illness. The late Chitsulo was until his death Managing Editor for the Nation Publications Limited (NPL). According to the family, Chitsulo, who […]
The Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA) with support from the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) – Malawi Chapter and the Media Council of Malawi (MCM) on Friday, March 13, 2015, met with media owners and managers to discuss with them the issue of rising cost of living, general low salaries among journalists and how […]
Malawi veteran journalists Edward Chitsulo, 56 who was Managing Editor for the Nation Publications Limited (NPL).died on Sunday, 15th March 2015 at Blantyre Adventist Hospital. Chitsulo was also a columnist in the Weekend Nation under ‘Raw Stuff’, one of the pioneers of newspaper publishing during the transition period when he, alongside another journalist Grey Mang’anda, […]
Minister of Information, Tourism and Civic Education, Kondwani Nankhumwa, on Tuesday sought to learn more about operations of the Journalists Union of Malawi (Juma). During the luncheon, Nankhumwa who was accompanied by principal secretary Chimwemwe Banda said the meeting was one in many familiarisation activities he was conducting with various key stakeholders. “We recognise that […]
Enlightened Christian Gathering leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has sent a formal complaint to Malawi media bodies after he has of late been subject to on-line media attacks. Bushiri has claimed he has refused to be stampeded by some reporters who have been demanding money from the Man of God after being appointed AFRICCI president. Recently, […]
Malawi Government plans to train journalists in economic reporting to improve their data interpretation skills. The training follows recent failure by journalists to interpret data which also turned out to be from wrongly attributed to as the World Bank said it had not even issued out that particular data. Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture […]
So Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale wanted The Nation jailed for merely telling Malawians what they needed to know? For the record, The Nation’s crime – according to Kachale – was to tell the world that Chief Cashgater Oswald Lutepo had some neurotic issues. How that begins to be criminal only Mme Kachale […]
Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture Kondwani Nankhumwa Sunday opened the Hope Channel Malawi TV which was awarded licence by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA). Speaking at the official opening function in Blantyre, Nankhumwa commended the Seventh Day Adventist Church for the state of the art studios that the TV station is using. Nakhumwa […]
Journalism is arguably one of the indispensable professions in the present information-driven world. Just like a midwife is, to a considerable extent, responsible for the fate of a foetus during birth, a journalist determines the fate of information before it enters the public domain. More importantly, the actual quality of the impact of journalism on […]
Malawi president Peter Mutharika says the past few months of his rule has demonstrated how serious his administration is in upholding the freedom of press in this Southern African country. Mutharika told Malawi journalists Tuesday on his return of the AU Summit in Ethiopia that his administration has already managed to transform the Malawi Broadcasting […]
The original Radio RSA Chichewa Service had Tony Machilika, Mike Mlongoti, Joe Dawe and Charles Ndau. They used to come on air at 7 CET. These guys were massive. During the dawn of multiparty democracy Radio RSA was a ‘must listen’. Joe Dawe was the most serious of the quartet. All of them were unique […]
Hundreds of journalists and other Blantyre city residents on Saturday, January 31, 2015 braved heavy rains to attend the fundraising braai organised by journalists under the banner ‘Media Action 4 Society’ to raise funds for flood victims in Blantyre city and rural areas. Top of the pile was a K1 million donation from Mota Engil […]
Blantyre based journalists will on Saturday, January 31, 2015 host a braai on the gardens of Motel Paradise in Blantyre to raise funds for flood victims in affected areas of Blantyre city and rural. Media Institute of Southern Africa-Malawi Chapter (MISA-Malawi) chairperson Thom Khanje is chairing the initiative which has also drawn members of Blantyre […]