The Tanzania Standard Newspapers (TSN), publishers of Daily News and Habari Leo and their sister publications, Sunday News and Habari Leo Jumapili, has today announced the names of its new incoming board of directors which will be chaired by a former civil servant, Mr. William Mukama. One wonders whether other media houses will let us [...]
Old Media Vs New Media, Part 2.
March 3, 2010
One thing that you’ll notice while reading this blog is a diversity of views that co-exist under the rubric of Serengeti Advisers. Here you won’t find a homogeneous worldview. Ours is a sensibility defined by a Negative Capability, that is we are able to entertain a multiplicity of views and opinions, even when they are in [...]
Annals of Shoddy Journalism
January 19, 2010
Regular readers of Serengeti’s Media Report will remember a Yellow Couch piece in the March issue of last year about how some newspapers have the tendency to rely exclusively on anonymous sources in their news stories. As the piece argued at the time, anonymity, with few exceptions, is overused and has become a way for [...]