WAY FORWARD

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MISA and other media stakeholders should begin raising awareness on
some of the new provisions in the constitution, and should not wait
for the alignment of the laws to the constitution. Instead, they should
raise challenges on laws that are not aligned to the constitution;

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Media trainers from the different institutions that offer courses/
qualifications in media subjects should be included in media-related
activities;

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The Harare Polytechnic School of Journalism and Media Studies should
share its course on Media Literacy (already packaged and ready for
use by other media stakeholders) with MISA, for use with media
institutions and for advocacy purposes.;

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Awareness should be raised on media issues such as media
performance, standards, and corruption, and should be discussed
freely and addressed appropriately on media platforms (for example,
ZUJ could write an editorial on professionalism, FAMWZ on issues of
harassment, etc.);

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Information sharing on critical issues (such as sexual harassment)
should be enhanced;

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Sexual harassment in the media fraternity should be addressed. For
starters, FAMWZ should recirculate its booklet on sexual harassment in
the newsroom;

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Internal policies to deal with various important issues such as gender,
corruption, how to deal with freebies and so on, should be developed
and implemented; and

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Media houses should develop orientation programmes for entry
journalists that address ethics issues, in-house policies, DOs and
DON’Ts, etiquette, and so forth.

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