SECTOR 2 The media landscape, including new media, is characterised by diversity, independence and sustainability. 2.1 A wide range of sources of information (print, broadcasting, internet, mobile phones) is accessible and affordable to citizens. Print media There are at least six dailies but this figure fluctuates as publications are launched and then disappear off the market. The established dailies are the pro-government The Herald and Chronicle as well as the private NewsDay, and two new players, the private Daily News and the tabloid H-Metro, published by the pro-government Zimbabwe Newspapers Group (Zimpapers). Other dailies have appeared on the street but only for a short time such as The Mail. There were plans to re-establish The Daily Gazette but they did not come to fruition because of a lack of financial resources. Among the weeklies available nationally are the pro-government Sunday Mail and the privately owned The Zimbabwe Independent, The Financial Gazette, The Zimbabwe Standard. There are also Umtunywa, The Manica Post, Chaminuka News, Business Weekly, Mashonaland Telegraph for Chinhoyi and Nehanda Guardian in Bindura. The newer weekly publications are B-Metro, a tabloid that is part of the Zimpapers stable, and The Patriot. In addition, the London-based weekly The Zimbabwean is sold in major centres. The dailies are available in all major cities but harder to find in the remote rural areas. The price of most newspapers is US$1 - quite high, given that most workers are civil servants who earn approximately US$300 a month. The Zimbabwe Independent is more costly at US$2 a copy and is mostly found in city centres. The provincial dailies are more accessible and probably more popular in their own communities. South African magazines and newspapers like the Sunday Times, Business Day, The Sowetan and Mail & Guardian are available and have a sizeable market in Zimbabwe. The Sunday Times (which costs only US$1) and Mail & Guardian have special Zimbabwe editions. Television The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) still has the monopoly on broadcasting in the country. The reach of its TV signals is quite restricted and has only recently been extended to regions near the borders in Plumtree, Beitbridge, Victoria Falls and Hwange. 26 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER ZIMBABWE 2012