The Media Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2024

A licensee must avoid publishing inaccurate, misleading, or distorted material and must correct significant errors promptly and prominently once recognized.

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Regulation
Citation: The Media Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2024
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Language: en
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advertising confidential information content compliance content publishing cultural values interception of communications interviewing and photographing children licensing media media services misrepresentation non-discrimination print media licensing privacy publication controls publication standards publishing subterfuge

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A licensee must avoid publishing inaccurate, misleading, or distorted material and must correct significant errors promptly and prominently once recognized. Individuals or organizations must be given a fair chance to reply to inaccuracies when reasonably called for. A print media licensee must clearly distinguish comment, conjecture, and fact. Intrusions into a person’s private life without consent, including photographing people on private property with long-lens photography without consent, are not acceptable; publication is only justified if it is in the public interest. A print media licensee must ensure published content preserves cultural values and public molarity.

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Citation
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AI-assisted research summary: A licensee must avoid publishing inaccurate, misleading, or distorted material and must correct significant errors promptly and prominently once recognized.

1. Accuracy: (a) A licensee shall take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted material; (b) Whenever it is recognized that a significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distorted report has been published, it shall be corrected promptly and with due prominence; (c) An apology shall be published whenever appropriate; (d) A licensee shall always publish fairly and accurately the outcome of an action for defamation to which it has been a party.
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Amendment of regulation 2
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AI-assisted research summary: Individuals or organizations must be given a fair chance to reply to inaccuracies when reasonably called for.

2. Opportunity to reply: A fair opportunity for reply to inaccuracies shall be given to individuals or organizations when reasonably called for.
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Amendment of regulation 5
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media licensee must clearly distinguish comment, conjecture, and fact.

3. Comment, conjecture and fact: A print media licensee, whilst free from partisan, shall distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.
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Addition of regulation 7A
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AI-assisted research summary: Intrusions into a person’s private life without consent, including photographing people on private property with long-lens photography without consent, are not acceptable; publication is only justified if it is in the public interest.

4. Privacy: Intrusions and enquires into and individual's private life without his or her consent including the use of long-lens photography to take pictures of people on private property without their consent are not acceptable and publication can only be justified when it is in the public interest.
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Amendment of regulation 8
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media licensee must ensure published content preserves cultural values and public molarity.

5. Cultural Values: A print media licensee shall ensure that content published preserve cultural values and public molarity.
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Addition of regulation 11A
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AI-assisted research summary: A print licensee must not obtain or publish material that was gathered by clandestine listening devices or by intercepting private conversations.

6. Interception: A print licensee shall not obtain or publish material obtained by using clandestine listening devices or by intercepting private conversations.
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Amendment of regulation 13
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media licensee must not obtain or seek pictures through misrepresentation or subterfuge.

7. Misrepresentation: (a) A print media licensee shall not obtain or seek to obtain information of pictures through misrepresentation or subterfuge; 11 GN. NO.99 (Contd) Media Services (Amendment) (b) Documents and photographs obtained through misrepresentation shall be removed; (c) Subterfuge can be justified only in the public interest and only when information cannot be obtained by any other means.
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Amendment of regulation 17
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media licensee must not obtain or seek information or pictures through intimidation or harassment.

8. Harassment: A print media licensee shall neither obtain nor seek to obtain information or pictures through intimidation or harassment.
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Amendment of regulation 22
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AI-assisted research summary: A licensee should generally avoid identifying relatives or friends of people accused or convicted of crime, unless doing so conflicts with the public’s right to know.

9. Innocent relatives and friends: Unless it is contrary to the public's right to know, a licensee shall generally avoid identifying relatives or friends of persons convicted or accused of crime.
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Deletion of regulation 24 and 25
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AI-assisted research summary: Print media licensees must not publish certain information about children without consent, and children must not be approached or photographed at school without school permission unless it is in the child’s best interest.

10. Interviewing or photographing children: (a) A print media licensee shall not publish information obtained from interview or photograph of children on subjects involving the personal welfare of the child, in the absence or without the consent of a parent or other adult who is responsible for the children; (b) Children shall not be approached or photographed while at school without the permission of the school authorities except for the best interest of the child.
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Addition of regulation 28A
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media license must not identify children involved in sexual offence cases.

11. Children in sex cases: A print media license shall not identify children who are involved in cases concerning sexual offences, whether as victims, or as witnesses or defendants.
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Deletion and substitution of First Schedule
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media licensee must not identify sexual assault victims or publish information likely to identify them, unless allowed by law.

12. Victims of crime: A print media licensee shall not identify victims of sexual assaults or publish information likely to contribute to such identification unless, by law, they are allowed to do so.
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Addition of Third Schedule
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AI-assisted research summary: A licensee must avoid discriminatory or pejorative references about race, color, religion, or sex, and must not publish those details unless they are directly relevant to the story.

13. Discrimination: A licensee shall avoid- (a) prejudicial or pejorative reference to a person's race, color, religion or sex to any physical or mental illness or handicap; (b) publishing details of a person's race, color, religion or sex, unless these are directly relevant to the story.
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Confidential sources
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AI-assisted research summary: Journalists have a moral obligation to protect confidential sources, except when required by lawful authority.

14. Confidential sources: Unless as required by lawful authority, Journalists have a moral obligation to protect confidential sources of information.
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Astrology, Superstition
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media licencee must not publish advertisements or material about astrology, superstition, or traditional healers claiming to cure ailments or diseases.

15. Astrology, Superstition: A print media licencee shall avoid publishing advertisement and issues related to astrology, superstition or publish information related to tradition healer purporting to cure ailments or diseases.
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Advertisement
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AI-assisted research summary: A print media licensee may publish advertisements only if they are lawful, honest, decent, truthful, fair, and not misleading or unfairly discrediting others.

16. Advertisement: A print media licensee shall only publish advertisements that- 12 GN. NO.99 (Contd) Media Services (Amendment) (a) is lawful, honest, decent and truthful; (b) conforms with principles of fair competition; (c) do not contain any descriptions, claims or other material which may, directly or by implication, mislead members of the public in relation to the product or services advertised, or about its suitability for the purpose recommended; (d) do not unfairly attack or discredit, directly or by implications any other advertisers, products or advertisements.”. Dodoma, NAPE MOSES NNAUYE 30th January, 2024 Minister for Information, Communication and Information Technology 13

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