Trevor Ncube appears on CNN and NPR
On 4 June 4 2010, NewsDay appeared on the streets of Zimbabwe for the first time - the only independent daily newspaper in the country since the Daily News was forced to close in 2003. Trevor Ncube, the chairman of the paper's publishing company Alpha Media Holdings, spoke with Becky Anderson of CNN and Bob Garfield of NPR's On the Media about the challenges facing the paper at its launch and how it was coping under the Mugabe regime.
Trevor also gave an insight into the realities of setting up and operating a paper in Zimbabwe to South Africa's bizcommunity.com.
The Times in London described the launch as "the most significant accomplishment of the power-sharing Government between President Mugabe and the Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, to carry out democratic reforms. It ends seven years of a state-enforced monopoly by The Herald, the propaganda broadsheet devoted to Mr Mugabe and his party."
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