SECTOR 4 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator. 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 3.9 (2005 = 2.6; 2007 = 4.3; 2009 = 3.5) 4.10 Journalists and other media practitioners are organised in trade unions and/or professional associations. Journalists or other media workers from the private media are not organised in any union. “Owners of private media houses have an unwritten rule that their employees are not allowed to belong to the labour movement.” State media journalists can belong to the Zambia Union of Journalists (ZUJ), the National Union for Communication Workers (NUCW) and the Zambia Union of Broadcasters and Other Information Disseminators (ZUBID). “The ZUJ has been weakened by government.” There are also a number of media associations in Zambia, including MISA Zambia, the Press Association of Zambia (PAZA), the Zambia Media Women’s Association (ZAMWA), the Society of Senior Zambian Journalists (SSZJ) and the Zambia Editors Forum (ZAEF). Apart from MISA Zambia, which has a wide membership of media houses and individual journalists, including those from The Post, most of these associations are considered very weak and inactive. They are considered unrepresentative and many have failed to hold even Annual General Meetings (AGMs) in the past two years. PAZA has also been under pressure from government lately and has thus appears to have lost its voice. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER ZAMBIA 2011 65