Better media laws stimulate development

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The Dutch Ambassador to Tanzania, Mr Wiebe de Boer, once said that as the media becomes free, it stimulates the development of a nation and helps strengthen transparency, accountability, and expose corruption.

This section is not healthy, and the new proposal is that public institutions be allowed to submit their ads directly to the media houses they deem appropriate according to their needs. Section 5(e) states that newspapers will be required to reapply for licences to operate annually. Media stakeholders want this section to be amended as it does not give media houses a guarantee for survival. Investors in the media industry need assurance that their businesses will be operating next year before they can make crucial, long-term business decisions. Stakeholders want the government to go back to the old procedure of permanent registration, or at least long-term registration. The annual licence arrangements could be used to muzzle a section of the press that is critical to the government by simply not renewing the licence, as it happened to the Tanzania Daima newspaper four years ago. Reactions Various stakeholders have also expressed their hopes that Tanzania will come up with a media law that will benefit the country as a whole.

Better media laws stimulate development

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