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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
HomeResultsMultiple Sourcing

Multiple Sourcing

In 2019, 40% of all the sampled units had only one source.  The minimal requirement to have “2 or more sources” was only fulfilled by 60% of the units. Newspapers lead in this category (68%), followed by the National Radio (58%), TV (56%) and Local Radio (55%).  Comparatively, the problem of having multiple sources seems to be growing as all media genres had a lower score in multiple sourcing compared to 2018. All the media have used fewer sources than in 2018, on average 5% less “2 sources or more”. TV suffered the most (by 12% points), followed by print (9% points), and radio by just 3-5%.

Multiple sourcing