New journalism
NZPA Salisbury A leading official in Zimbabwe’s Information Ministry, Justin Nyoka; has urged Zimbabwean journalists to forget the “cock-eyed concept of freedom of the press” applied in the West. Speaking at the annual assembly of the Zimbabwe Journalists’. Union, Mr Nyoka, himself a former journalist, assailed what he called the monopoly on African news held by the agencies . Reuters, Associated Press, United Press International, and Agence FrancePresse. Mr .Nyoka, who is Director
of Information under the Information Minister (Mr Nathan Shamuyarira), called on his audience to become sensitive to the “new order” of the press in Zimbabwe, following the precept, “positivity is news, negativity is not news.” Of the Western concept of press freedom, Mr Nyoka said: “We cannot afford this in Africa.” Africans had to “re-educate” the West to understand “what we now like to call developmental journalism.” Mr Nyoka was a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s ■ Africa service.
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Press, 31 March 1981, Page 8
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