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Proposed regulations target to muzzle investigative scribes

Cabinet Secretary for ICT Fred Matiang'i during a stakeholders forum of the task force on the review of the broadcasting regulations held yesterday in a Nairobi hotel.
(PHOTO: WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD)

A task force has proposed amendments to broadcasting regulations which signal a tough era for the media industry.

Key proposals made by the task force picked last month to review the Kenya Information and Communications Broadcasting Regulations 2015 contain amendments that if passed, could be open to misinterpretation and potentially deal a death knell to investigative journalism.

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