among them the Media Institute of Southern Africa – Zimbabwe Chapter (MISA), the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, the Zimbabwe Independent Editors Forum (ZINEF), the Independent Journalists Association of Zimbabwe and the Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ). MISA, ZUJ and the MMPZ have formed the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) which is now working as a united front in the struggle for media freedom and freedom of expression. More needs to be done to ensure media lobby groups spread their work throughout Zimbabwe. Often they are preaching to the converted and grassroot communities are overlooked. Only the Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe has outreach programmes in the rural areas. SCORES: Individual scores: Average Score: 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 2 3.1 (2006 = 2.5) Overall score for sector 1: 1.7 (2006 = 1.4) Sector 2: The media landscape is characterised by diversity, independence and sustainability. 2.1 A wide range of sources of information (print, broadcasting, internet) is available and affordable to citizens. ANALYSIS: Print media Over the last few years the print media market has been shrinking due to the struggling economy. The print media currently available include the state-owned The Herald, The Sunday Mail, The Sunday News (Bulawayo-based), The Chronicle (Bulawayo-based), The Manica Post (Mutare-based) and Gweru Times. The Financial Gazette is said to be owned by the governor of the Reserve Bank. The weeklies The Standard and The Zimbabwe Independent are privately owned. The People’s Voice, a publication of the Information Department of the ruling ZANU (PF), was at one time out of circulation but is now back in print; The Worker is published by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and The Agenda by the National Constitutional Assembly. All these publications are becoming more and more expensive to publish. Other periodicals are lifestyle papers Trends, En Vogue and other specialised publications. Circulation figures are very low. The Herald, for example, puts out 80.000 copies. On average 10 people read one copy of the dailies, with the figure rising to 20 per copy of weekly newspapers. Newspapers are expensive to purchase on a daily basis and it is the weeklies that are being bought more consistently by middle and higher income earning groups. A copy of The Herald presently (19 January 2008) costs Z$900 000, the price of two standard loaves of bread - and most people prioritise bread over newspapers. So This Is Democracy? 2008 -262- Media Institute of Southern Africa