Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article is a contribution to the debate on the general decline of investigative reporting in the Zimbabwean press. Investigative reporting was a flagship activity of Zimbabwe’s press soon after independence in 1980. During this period, until the mid-1990s, investigative reporting thrived, but it diminished in the early 2000s and is now effectively dormant. This article attempts to account for this decline. It utilises in-depth interviews with practising journalists and thematic analysis of interview scripts. Interviewees pointed at the legal system, proprietary and editorial demands influenced by new forms of corporate management of media that promote profit at the expense of accountability, “juniorisation” in the newsroom and the state’s big brother attitude as the most important factors explaining this decline.
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