Month: January 2019

Veteran journalist and author Rasna Warah stirred up social media the other week with a perspicacious tweet. Sorry, strange word. Means insightful/thoughtful. Rasna wrote: “I…

The Nation apologized for a news report last week. It was about a photojournalist. The story was bad journalism and deserves highlighting. The Nation apologized…

Editorial chiefs at the Standard should be worried. A trend is increasingly visible where empty headlines are written to sell the newspaper, particularly the weekend…

Truth is, there has been such pile-up of mediascape random thoughts on our reportage. We are actually spoilt for choice. Let us be clear here:…

Taxman to raise Sh6.1 trillion over next three years (MyGov. headline, January 22, p.3) Certain words commonly used in media reports promote gender bias. Taxman…

Western mainstream media values the lives of people in rich countries more. People have to die in the thousands in a non-political tragedy in poor…

One of the core mandates of the Fourth Estate is to inform the public on matters public interest in a clear and professional way. Information…

A story in the Sunday Standard on January 13 stood out for the wrong things. It ignored all journalism principles. The report was first published…

Welcome back to Mediascape, refreshed and reloaded. Let us plunge right in. The 14 Riverside Drive terror attack is still fresh on our pages. Predictably,…

By Kodi Barth It just wouldn’t feel right to start off this review with, “So, how did the local media do in covering last week’s…