Tanzania
Some media houses are trying hard to diversify their sources of revenue instead of depending on advertising only.
SCORES:
Individual scores:

2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2

Average score:

1.8

2.11. State print media are not subsidised with tax payers’
money.
ANALYSIS:
The government-owned Daily News is subsidised directly by government.
SCORES:
Individual scores:

2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 3

Average score:

2.4

2.12. Government does not use its power over the placement of
advertisements as a means to interfere with media
content.
ANALYSIS:
In 1994 the government issued a circular to all ministries, departments, parastatal organisations and private companies in which
government was a shareholder, instructing them to stop carrying
certain adverts. One panelist said that the then prime Minister ordered one media house to be starved of adverts for carrying negative stories about him.
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