SECTOR 4 There are a large number of women in the newsrooms but only very few of them in positions where they can influence content. People with disabilities are not encouraged to apply for jobs in the media and working conditions for them are poor (for example lifts are constantly out of order). 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: 3.0 (2008: n/a ; 2006:n/a) 4.5 Journalists and editors do not practice selfcensorship. Analysis: Journalists in Zimbabwe practise self-censorship. Pressures and fears – real or perceived - guide the way a journalist operates in the newsroom. There is the possibility of losing one’s job or of physical threats. Over the last decade the situation has worsened: “My family asks me whether I you can get arrested or attacked or killed for should really continue with this doing your job and these pressures take their difficult vocation if one can be toll on journalists and editors. “My family asks me whether I should really continue with this arrested anytime” difficult vocation if one can be arrested any time”. There is even more self-censorship on the part of female journalists. They are the ones who face the backlash on the domestic front if they happen to come under fire for the stories they work on and their husbands or boyfriends will ask them why they are taking such a risk. 62 Censorship is being practiced all along the chain of command - a journalist will censor his or her own story, the sub-editor will censor it, and then the editor will censor it. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER ZIMBABWE 2010