Online Reporter
Mthabisi Tshuma,Zimpapers Arts and Entertainment Hub
THE past year has marked a defining period for one of Zimbabwe’s largest media houses, Zimpapers, whose ongoing digital transformation has begun to bear fruit, evidenced by its nomination at this year’s Bulawayo Arts Awards (BAA).
Zimpapers, which this year integrated all its titles, has streamlined access to its publications through a single landing page, www.heraldonline.co.zw. The platform allows readers to easily navigate the group’s full stable, including daily newspapers The Herald and The Chronicle, weeklies Sunday News, The Manica Post and The Sunday Mail, metropolitan tabloids B-Metro and H-Metro, as well as vernacular titles Umthunywa and Kwayedza.
This integration also brought together arts and entertainment journalists under what is now known as the Zimpapers Arts and Entertainment Hub, a centralised unit that has been instrumental in driving consistent, high-quality coverage of the creative sector, work that has directly contributed to the company’s BAA nomination.
At the upcoming BAA ceremony, Zimpapers Online will compete for top honours against Dab Three Events and EarGround.
Commenting on the nomination, Zimpapers acting editorial executive Elias Mambo said it confirms that the organisation’s digital shift is moving in the right direction.
“The nomination is an important validation of the work we’re doing to transform Zimpapers into a modern, agile and digitally focused media organisation. It affirms that our investment in digital infrastructure, skills development, and integrated workflows is yielding visible results.
“More importantly, it shows that our audiences and industry peers recognise the improvements in quality, speed, interactivity, and depth of our online journalism. For the newsroom, this recognition energises our teams to continue innovating and to push the boundaries of what digital storytelling can achieve in Zimbabwe,” said Mambo.
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