Coronavirus batters media outlets across Africa as logistic challenges lower revenues and increase layoffs
"This challenge of Covid-19 has squeezed the life from television and radio stations," said David Omwoyo, the head of the Media Council of Kenya, as decreasing revenues and rising unemployment hit media.
"It was a rude shock for me because I didn't do anything wrong to warrant such treatment," one Punch veteran told AFP, asking not to be named as he was still owed a "token" payoff. The speed and severity of the current crunch have sparked calls for government bailouts, with private papers in Cameroon even holding a "dead press" day to denounce a lack of action.Kenya's national regulator on Friday unveiled what it called a "historic" fund worth just under $1 million to help some 150 broadcasters weather the storm.
"Collecting bailout funds from the government at this time will compromise their independence and freedom."Just as the spread of the virus has caused revenues to dwindle, it has also posed unprecedented logistical challenges to media outlets. In Ghana, one of West Africa's most open democracies, soldiers enforcing virus restrictions "assaulted" two reporters in April, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
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