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Deals with the challenges facing freedom of the press in Zimbabwe. Mass media entities controlled by the government of Zimbabwe; Difficulties in trying to reform the media; Effect of economic troubles on publications.

The article focuses on several books that delve into the crisis in Zimbabwe. Journalists have opted to inform people about the conditions in the country through books amid the campaign of President Robert Mugabe to suppress press freedom. Challenges in writing the books are mentioned, one is the notion created by Mugabe that Western journalists cannot write about the country. One published book about the country is "The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe," by Peter Godwin.

The article examines "The Zimbabwean," a newspaper published in South Africa and distributed inside Zimbabwe to escape the total censorship of the mass media imposed by the latter country's President Robert Mugabe. The financial and logistical difficulties of that process are described. The problems of reporting when both reporters and sources must have total anonymity for their own safety are discussed. Mugabe's violence against journalists is noted, as is the fact the government has made threats against the families of exiles, which almost all journalists have become.

The article focuses on journalism in Zimbabwe. The government of President Robert Mugabe is an active opponent of press freedom, sometimes violently so. It has banned newspapers from publication, many journalists have been imprisoned, and some murdered. Foreign correspondents are banned from entering the country. Despite this, news continues to be reported from Zimbabwe, and there is widespread knowledge of Mugabe's abuses and of the country's almost-total economic collapse.