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INFORMATION and Broadcasting Minister Chihimba Kambwili(left) confers with Kitwe DC Chanda Kabwe before the PF rally started at Mukuba grounds in Kitwe .Picture by KENNEDY MUPESENI
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Minister Chihimba Kambwili(left) confers with Kitwe DC Chanda Kabwe before the PF rally started at Mukuba grounds in Kitwe .Picture by KENNEDY MUPESENI

Kitwe District Commissioner and Patron of the Northern Media Club, Chanda Kabwe, has urged the media proprietors in the country, especially in the private sector, to stop misusing their Journalists by paying them slavery wages despite the journalists doing their level best in the gathering of news and providing better stories for their respective media houses.

In a statement released to the media in commemoration of World Press Freedom day, Mr Kabwe strongly warned the media owners who do not pay well their Journalists to change for the better because a financially challenged Journalist can plunge the nation into turmoil by writing false news due to lack of motivation at work.

Below is the full Statement

Hi colleagues

Media Statement
Ma y 2, 2016

KITWE
P.O BOX 20070

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2016 – PAY JOURNALISTS WELL.

THE media plays a pivotal role in the development of the country hence media owners should pay well their journalists because a hungry and desperate Journalist is a danger to society.

It is unfortunate for some media proprietors in the country especially in the private sector who misuse their Journalists by paying them slavery wages despite them doing their level best in the gathering of news and providing better stories for their respective media houses.

Journalism is a noble profession because the Journalists provide checks and balances in the governing of the country but some private media owners do not have respect for their Journalists because they treat them like slaves subjecting them to inhumane and pathetic conditions of service.

The media owners should always treat their Journalists with respect because the nation depends on such people as they disseminate information to masses on various issues affecting the people in their respective environment.

It is also disheartening to observe that some media houses in the country are in the habit of not paying their Journalists on time and yet they expect them to contribute stories on a daily basis whilst they are facing financial challenges.

Am strongly warning the media owners who do not pay well their Journalists to change for the better because a financially challenged Journalist can plunge the nation into turmoil by writing false news due to lack of motivation at work.

The issue of some media houses paying Journalists meagre salaries is an insult to the profession because Journalism is regarded as the fourth estate in any country in the world.

Media owners should not be disrespect journalists working in their respective institutions by paying them low salaries because a lowly paid Journalist will easily fall as a prey in the hands of some selfish politicians and individuals who will only use their financial muscle to put the Journalists in their pockets by instructing them to write stories against the hardworking Government of the Patriotic Front led by his Excellency Edgar Chagwa Lungu.

The Journalists should further be wary of some unscrupulous individuals who are only interested in using them to write false and malicious stories to suit the agenda of some of their media proprietors who do not even pay them according to their expectations.

Some media houses in the country should also change the way they report about the economical, political and social affairs in Zambia because irresponsible and unconstructive reporting can dent the image of the country to the international community.

Please media owners pay the Journalists better salaries because the nation highly relies on them and without Journalists no sustainable development can be steered in the country.

Lastly let me urge the Journalists in Zambia to always adhere to the ethics of the profession by reporting objectively and constructively as they are the mirror of the nation to the outside world.

HAPPY 2016 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY TO YOU ALL, ENJOY YOURSELVES.
Best Regards colleagues and work well.
Issued by
Chanda Kabwe
Kitwe District Commissioner/Patron Northern Media Club.

2 COMMENTS

  1. The worst paid journos are from the public media. Just check how ZNBC tv presenters all become clothing line models.

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