SECTOR 2 subject is concerned. The same can be said of the fact that senior managers of public media are not guaranteed a mandate4 which makes them vulnerable. Another contributing factor is that as far as independent media is concerned, the allocation of public and state-owned advertising is almost always based on non-objective criteria. In the opinion of the panel, it has to be acknowledged that there is a lot of imbalance in the private press. If the public media assume themselves as governmental, the private media position themselves as substantially antigovernment. Hence, the media end up being reduced to the political sphere in such a way that events like the National Festival of Culture are clearly covered under a political perspective, which is rather worrying. 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: Score of previous years: ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓ ✓ ✓ ✓✓ 2.0 2005=n/a; 2007=n/a; 2009=1.6; 2011=1.8; 2014=3.3 2.9 Media cover the full spectrum of economic, cultural, political, social, national and local perspectives and conduct investigative stories In general, the media cover the entire range of issues, however, one panellist highlighted that they face serious specialisation problems. Investigative journalism is going through one of the worst phases, including the already historic challenge – the lack of resources. It was assessed that media outlets do not invest in improving the qualifications of their journalists. When they do, it is done in an ad hoc manner, without the exercise being part of their organisational agenda or informed by the relevant plans and budgets. 29 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER MOZAMBIQUE 2018