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) is available and affordable to citizens. Print The media landscape in Botswana is very similar to how it was two years ago. The country has two daily newspapers – the state-owned, free Daily News (with a national circulation of 65,000), and Mmegi (with a circulation of 11,000 on Mondays to Thursdays and 22,400 on Fridays). There are 13 private weekly newspapers in Botswana – The Botswana Gazette, Botswana Guardian, Echo, Midweek Sun, The Mirror, Monitor, Ngami Times, Sunday Standard, Sunday Tribune, The Voice and the three new entrants (in the past two years): the Global Post (in Chinese and English), the Weekend Post and the Telegraph. Most of these newspapers are national, while others are limited to specific locations. The newspapers have circulations ranging between 8,000 (Sunday Tribune) and 30,000 (The Voice).1 In the past two years, at least three private newspapers have closed down: the weekly Francistown Blue Jacket News; the fortnightly private newspaper, the Tswana Times; and the erratically published Independent Informer. Other private newspapers include the monthly Economic Express, which is published erratically. There are a number of local magazines, including the environmentally focussed Wena, Hotel and Tourism, the youth publication Lapologa, a farmers’ magazine, and the contemporary state-published magazine, Kutlwano. New monthly magazine entrants in the last two years include Wealth, Flair, Architect Design, Peolwane (Air Botswana’s in-flight magazine) and the general-interest Mahube. Many Botswana magazines are published infrequently. 1 24 Mmegi is the biggest private newspaper - the only daily private newspaper in the country - which also owns the Botswana Guardian, its former chief rival. This unlikely merger may not have been sanctioned if there was a coherent Competition Commission established because it does very little to add to media diversity in the country. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER BOTSWANA 2011