Sunday, March 15, 2015

NYIKA MEDIA CLUB SADDENED WITH CHITSULO'S PASSING

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



The Nyika Media Club joins the media fraternity in expressing shock and sadness at the passing on of Mr Edward Chitsulo, who until his death was Editor-In-Chief for Nation Publications Limited (NPL).

Nyika Media Club reckons how instrumental Mr Chitsulo was in shaping up the media landscape in Malawi through various contributions.

Mr Chitsulo was at some point a publisher championing pruralism and diversity in the media landscape, providing an opportunity for a number of the current leading practitioners to enter the journalism fray.

For years, Mr Chitsulo was also in media training transferring his unparallelled journalistic knowledge to a team that is not only the current shining light of the media landscape but also the future and institutional memory of the same.

As editor, Mr Chitsulo is remembered not only for mentoring and provoking thoughtfulness in the
journalists both young and old, but also in fearlessly campaigning for an independent media landscape, regardless of the political diversity, through authoring columns.

Nyika Media Club, with several members being those that drunk from Mr Chitsulo's fountain of knowledge, reckons that death has robbed it of someone whose acumen is obviously hard to replace.

We grieve with the family and the media fraternity generally and NPL in particular.

Signed:

Karen Iron Msiska - General Secretary

Chimbizga Msimbuko -President

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