The Chief Executive Officer at AB Communications, Susan Makore, sensationally claimed that newsrooms are filled with sexual predators who prey on young females graduates.
Makore revealed this while speaking at the late journalist Bornwell Chakaodza’s Memorial Lecture Series in Harare on Wednesday. Said Makore:
We must also bring on board issues of sexual harassment and how to address them in an amicable way within the newsrooms without instilling fear.
It’s a fact that the majority of those affected are women. The problem I have now is that our newsrooms are becoming scary especially for young graduates.
When some of them come for attachment they will never want to come back because there are predators in our newsrooms.
So within this media reform agenda, we also need to look at it as a sector to make sure that our newsrooms are safe to work in.
Makore called for the implementation of stringent measures to prevent the occurrence of sexual harassment in newsrooms.