Categories: Stories

Nyarota says Zimbabwe journalists today do not realise how fortunate they are

Former Chronicle editor and Daily News founder Geoff Nyarota says Zimbabwe’s journalists today do not realise how fortunate they are as they are operating in a totally different environment from that in which he operated when he broke the Willowvale Motor scandal in the late 1980s.

“If a quarter of what you read on social media these days appeared in any newspaper back in the 1980s those journalist would spend the rest of their lives in jail,” he said in an interview with Alpha Media boss Trevor Ncube.

Nyarota rose to fame when his paper broke the Willowvale car sales scandal in which government ministers, party and senior government officials bought cars from the government-owned car assembly plant and sold them at exorbitant prices.

Here is a clip from the interview.

 

(121 VIEWS)

Don't be shellfish... Please SHARE
Google
Twitter
Facebook
Linkedin
Email
Print

Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

Recent Posts

Africans-including Zimbabweans- must now tell their own stories- ADB president

Africans must now tell their own stories because if they continue to denigrate themselves they…

May 11, 2024

Zimbabwe quarterly taxes to force businesses to sell products in ZiG

Quarterly taxes, which are due next month, will force businesses to sell a quota of…

May 11, 2024

Zimbabweans may soon be able to change ZiG to US dollars and vice-versa on their phones

Zimbabweans will soon be able to change their ZiG to United States dollars and vice-versa…

May 10, 2024

Tshabangu says it will take 67 years to complete the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road at the current pace

Senator Sengezo Tshabangu yesterday expressed dismay at the pace at which the government is constructing…

May 10, 2024

Zimbabwe to fine those breaching official exchange rate US$15 000 or more

Zimbabwe has ordered providers of goods and services to use the official exchange rate or…

May 10, 2024

Zimbabwe to introduce legislation to ensure official exchange rate is used for pricing

Zimbabwe is going to introduce legislation which ensures that the country uses one exchange rate…

May 8, 2024