Nyasa Times has become the first online publication to win the Standard Knockout Football Cup online media award with its sports reporter Alex Mezalumo also scooping the award for best reporter for online during the Media Awards Ceremony on Thursday at Atmosphere Restaurant in Blantyre. Celebrated sports journalist Garry Chirwa retained the Standard Knockout Football […]
The stage is set for Standard Bank to unveil winners of the 2014 Knock-Out Cup Media on Thursday during a presentation ceremony scheduled for Atmosphere Restaurant in Blantyre. Standard Bank Chief Financial Officer Temwani Simwaka said the prize presentation ceremony follows a thorough screening of the submissions by a four-member independent judging panel. “In the […]
The Center for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Center for Development for the People (CEDEP) have urged the Malawi government to stop police brutality, in light of the arrest and beating of BNL Times journalist Archibald Kasakura. Kasakura was roughed-up and arrested on Tuesday as he was taking pictures of law-enforcers chasing street […]
Malawi Police on Tuesday showed the ugly side of their profession when they roughed-up and arrested Times Group journalist, Archibald Kasakura, as he was taking pictures of law-enforcers chasing street vendors in Limbe town. The law-enforcers are jointly with Blantyre City Council removing vendors from city streets. Kasakura, who was detained at Limbe police, was granted bail […]
Two leading human rights watchdogs Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) have cautioned President Peter Mutharika against taking the path of his predecessors who in one way or the other attempted to cripple the operations of the media especially those which were deemed to be critical of the […]
Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture, Kondwani Nankhumwa has assured the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation of editorial independence and non-interference from government in its day to day work. Nnakhumwa said this Monday when he visited MBC’s Kwacha television studios and the broadcasting house at Chichiri in Blantyre. Said Nankhumwa: “I would like to assure that you […]
Let me first confess that I like the writing of the Muckraker, Raphael Tenthani. He is a highly gifted writer, and I consider him one of our very best. Unfortunately, it is clear that he has earned himself a displeased audience which Tenthani himself exposed in the Muckraking of September 28; he simply referred to […]
Lake of Stars organisers on Friday presented media awards to several arts journalists who have provided excellent coverage of Malawi’s top music festival recently and since its inception in 2004 The awards were presented when the organisers hosted a Media & Sponsors welcome cocktail which was attended by Minister of Tourism, Kondwani Nankhumwa. The journalists […]
Association for Environmental Journalists in Malawi (AEJ) has recognised 10 best Print and Electronic journalists for their outstanding performance in reporting issues of environment in its newly introduced Green Media Awards. Speaking during the presentation of the Awards on Friday in Blantyre, Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Atupele Muluzi said journalists have a role to make […]
Britain has called on Malawi government to go deeper in the crackdown on corruption and said there should be no “selective arrests depending on which side of the political fence one sits, or who in power one knows.” The British High Commissioner to Malawi, Michael Nevin, made the remarks in Lilongwe during the presentation of […]
Media Council of Malawi (MCM) , a body that looks into issues of journalism ethics, complaints, arbitration and accreditation, on Tuesday said accreditation exercise which started in order to flash out bogus journalists is going on well. Councils Executive Director Vales Machila told Nyasa Times in a interview in Lilongwe that the exercise is crucial because it will […]
Malawian journalists and media practitioners have teamed up to raise money for medical treatment of one of veteran journalists Limbani Moya who is required to be air-lifted to India to seek help that includes a kidney transplant. The journalists are looking for K10 million out of the required K15 million and have since organized a […]
Information and Civic Education Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa has commended one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, JTI for taking a lead role in promoting engagement of stakeholders involved Malawi’s tobacco reform process. Nankhumwa was speaking in Lilongwe when he officially opened a two-day Media Capability Building workshop for journalists that report on the tobacco industry. […]
First they came for the Socialists – and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. “Then they came for the Trade Unionist – and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. “Then they came for the Jews – and I did not speak out, because I […]
July 2014 is gone. A month that was littered with reports, essays, comments and analysis reflecting on Malawi’s 50th independence anniversary, time will tell whether any of it will help change direction of the country for the better. Conspicuously missing from these reflections is the media, the very vehicle that has carried these messages to […]
A story of a 12 year old girl who was impregnated by older cousins has won the Whistle Blower of the Year Award. The story, published in The Nation newspaper, concerns a 12 year old girl, who was a sharing a room with elder cousins who took turns sexually molesting her. The young girl did […]
Malawi Justice Minister Samuel Tembenu has cautioned citizens against using social media such as Facebook and online news comments page as platforms of spreading hateful messages against government and individuals. Tembenu said social media should not be abused as a hotbed of slander and defamation, saying though government will not cap down on free speech […]
Columnist and newspaper editor, Gracian Tukula, has said he hopes that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government realizes that Malawians will not give it the luxury of a honeymoon and that it needs to develop strong shock absorbers to manoeuvre “this rough terrain”. Writing in Nation on Sunday of August 3, 2014, Tukula on his […]