Digital journalism renaissance looms

VINCENT Kahiya, the Editor in Chief of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), publishers of two weeklies and two daily papers in Zimbabwe loves to share a story about how some journalists in the 90s could not cope with the changes the computer brought to the newsroom.

“Top journalists quit the profession and moved on to other things because a computer was too much of a complicated device,” said Kahiya. “The typewriter was what they wanted and if someone was to change their routine, it was time to leave and they did.”

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