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  • Yearbook 2019
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  • Yearbook on Media Quality in Tanzania
    • Rationale for Yearbook on Media Quality
    • Executive Summary
  • General Outline
    • What are the quality criteria of the Yearbook?
    • Definitions of quality criteria
    • Sample of the Yearbook
    • Methodology
  • Quality Index
    • How the index is computed
    • Results of the index
  • Results
    • Summary Results
    • Context of reporting – Media driven or official calendar?
    • Topical profile
    • Multiple Sourcing
    • Female sources
    • Number of Perspectives
    • Viewpoints
    • Opposing viewpoints
    • Viewpoints critical to government
    • Right of reply
    • Coverage of root causes
    • Putting figures in good context
    • Structure in stories
    • Historical background
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    • Local or national story?
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  • Short description of media houses involved
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University of Dar es Salaam School of Journalism and Mass Communication (UDSM-SJMC)
  • Yearbook 2019
  • SJMC main website
  • Yearbook on Media Quality in Tanzania
    • Rationale for Yearbook on Media Quality
    • Executive Summary
  • General Outline
    • What are the quality criteria of the Yearbook?
    • Definitions of quality criteria
    • Sample of the Yearbook
    • Methodology
  • Quality Index
    • How the index is computed
    • Results of the index
  • Results
    • Summary Results
    • Context of reporting – Media driven or official calendar?
    • Topical profile
    • Multiple Sourcing
    • Female sources
    • Number of Perspectives
    • Viewpoints
    • Opposing viewpoints
    • Viewpoints critical to government
    • Right of reply
    • Coverage of root causes
    • Putting figures in good context
    • Structure in stories
    • Historical background
    • Urban and rural
    • Local or national story?
  • Recommendations
  • Short description of media houses involved
  • Downloads
  • What the media report about us
  • Archives
    • Yeabook 2017
    • Yearbook 2018
  • Contact Us
HomeQuality IndexHow the index is computed

How the index is computed

The Yearbook’s Media Quality Index summarises the achievements in different quality categories in one index. The 2019 index shows a lower performance. For comparative reasons, the same quality criteria used in 2018 were also used in 2019.  However, in 2019 a new criterion was added to the index namely “putting figures into good context”. The index is thus based on 10 indicators. All criteria have the same weight, so the index is the mean of the performances in all the criteria. The quality index has a range from the lowest (0%) to the highest (100%).

Context of Reporting

% of pieces that were produced out of media own initiatives (= not official calendar)

 

Multiple Sourcing

% of pieces that used 2 or more sources

Diversity of Perspectives

% of pieces that used at least two perspectives

Viewpoints

% of pieces that used at least 2 viewpoints or opinions

Critical to Government

% of pieces that had opinions or viewpoints that were critical to the government

History Background

% of pieces that used at least 2 paragraphs (in print) or 2 sentences (in radio and TV) giving some historical background to the storyline

Right to Reply

% of pieces that conceded the right to reply in pieces where a person or an organization was accused of wrongdoing

Structure

% of pieces that had a very good structure, linking paragraphs and different text elements well

Root causes

% of pieces that used at least 2 paragraphs (in print) or 2 sentences (in radio and TV) providing information on root causes or reasons of the issue in the main storyline

Putting figures into good context

% of pieces that put figures mostly in a good context