Tanzania
Follow- up questions in Round Two: To facilitate a new strategy
for the next two years.
1) Changes in the media environment over the last two years
• The number of media houses and training institutions has 		
increased;
• There has been a lot of debate on the changes in law on the
right to access to information, freedom of expression and 		
media services;
• The media is covering more investigative stories;
• The media is becoming more credible among the people;
• Quality of media content has improved;
• Increase in technical quality and websites;
• Establishment of the Tanzania Media Fund to improve 		
investigative journalism;
• Transformation from the state to public broadcaster of 		
Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC);
• Advocacy on media law reforms is high;
• Government’s recognition that the media is an important 		
ally in the fight against corruption;
• The President or his spokesperson meets the media 			
monthly;
• Strategic networking between the media and civil society is
growing; and
• An Editors Forum has been established.
2)

If positive changes: who or what has been the main cause?

Tanzania is currently undergoing transformation with a lot of reforms in the political, economic and social spheres. The media has
not been left behind. There are internal forces such as media/ civil
society coalitions that are lobbying and advocating for policy and
legal reforms. Opposition parties and general tolerance and political will of the government are also mitigating factors.
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