By Saio Marrah Kenyan Media Consultant, Dr. Haron Mwangi, is currently in Sierra Leone to support the government of Sierra Leone in the implementation of the seven recommendations from the National Media Viability and Investment Conference for a national action plan. According to a press statement from the Ministry of Information and Communication dated Tuesday 30th August
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"There is a fixed set of income streams available to media, whatever market they are in..The task of public policy is to design mechanisms to enable media to draw on these sources in a way that most effectively enables them to serve the public interest in reliable information."
"Challenges posed by media globalisation and digitisation combined with falling audiences and advertising revenues are the key reasons behind the creation of public funding schemes to support the press in the MENA region."
"Media organisations themselves have often portrayed state subsidies as contentious, if not overtly dangerous to the functioning of the market, to media autonomy and to freedom of speech itself."