The biggest threats are the concentration of media ownership and attempts to legislate the online media environment.
But traditional methods of undermining media freedom are being replaced with new ones. In an ever-evolving political and technological landscape, we must also be alive to the new challenges that are threatening media freedom on the continent.
Among the biggest threats to emerge over the past decade are the concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few, government use of advertising spend to starve independent media outlets of revenue, and significant attempts to legislate the online media environment.The political changes in Africa in the 1990s saw many countries adopt multi-party politics. The changes allowed for the liberalisation of the media sector.
For the private press that has evaded such capture, governments have resorted to controlling advertising revenue. Media organisations in most African countries cannot survive without state advertising. In Rwanda, for example,Against this background of political and economic vulnerability, new media forms were broadly seen to hold a great deal of promise for the public.
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