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Journalists Advised To Work Within A Professional Code Of Ethics

Friedrich Ebert Stitung (FES) Tanzania Resident Director Andreas Quasten IRINGA: Journalists have been advised to work within a professional code of ethics and live by the ethical standards of the profession without overlooking on new media laws in place.  The call was made yesterday by the Mbeya Regional Police Commander (RPC) Mohammed Mpinga when was closing a two-day workshop on raising media and journalists awareness on challenges posed by new media laws in Tanzania to journalists in southern highlands zone held in Mbeya region.  The two-day awareness training was organized by Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Tanzania in association with Friedrich Ebert Stitung (FES) Tanzania who Resident Director is Andreas Quasten.  The journalists were take through the new media legislations made by the government recently which includes Media services Act of 2016 (MSA 2016), Access To Information (ATI 2015), Statistics Act and Cybercrime Act...