Dar es Salaam, Dec. 21 -- WHEN launching the ‘Yearbook on Media Quality in Tanzania report-2022, in Zanzibar last week, the principal researcher Mr Abdallah Katunzi of the University of Dar es Salaam School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said during his study he asked several editors if they had experienced any threat and interference in the course of implementing their work, and the response was No, at least not in the past one year.

Absence of interference in editorial and intimidation of journalists and increased access to information indicate increasing media freedom in the country as expressed by editors and media owners who were asked to comment about the current state media freedom in the United Republic of Tanzania....