LAUNCH OF THE 7TH ANNUAL MISA NAMIBIA MEDIA
SPEECH: NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF MISA NAMIBIA
MARBELINE MWASHEKELE
MISA HEAD QUARTERS

From The Namibian, 05.09.2011, staff reporter

"The national director of MISA Namibia, Marbeline Mwashekele, said the organisation has taken on board suggestions for improvements from industry players.
This means that for this year’s awards, only accredited and registered journalists, freelance journalists, editors, and broadcasters with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, MISA Namibia and media institutions are eligible to enter.

12 July 2011

Namibia Communiqué

Namibia’s only public newspaper, the New Era held a gala dinner to make the celebration of its 20th anniversary on 11 July 2011. The New Era newspaper started as a weekly newspaper in1991 under the auspices of the then Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It became a daily newspaper on 2 August 2004. Apart from reporting in English, New Era also reports in five indigenous languages on a weekly basis. Currently, New Era has 57 employees, excluding freelancers and correspondents.

27 June 2011

Namibia Alert-update

The sub-editor of the weekly tabloid, Informante, Elizabeth M’ule was on the 23 June 2011
suspended from duty following a story entitled, “Trustco ends partnership with Zimbwe’s
Econet” that Informante Senior Journalist, Brigitte Weidlich authored regarding altercations
between Trusco Mobile and Econet Zimbabwe. Weidlich was issued with a letter of suspension,
immediately after the the story featured in Informante’s business supplement on 16 June 2011.