GREETINGS!
I trust I find you well.
In this first newsletter of 2026, I and my team, express profound gratitude for the constructive feedback and suggestions from you — both our valued readers and advertisers.
You have fully taken to my call in my previous newsletter, where I promised to keep you informed about the Daily News and the Daily News on Sunday, by also engaging with us at different and various levels.
Before I take the opportunity of thanking you once again, for your valued and faithful support of the last 15 years, I feel it is critical to share with you exciting news happening within our Jester Media Services (JMS) Group.
As you might know by now, the JMS Group comprises Daily News, Daily News On Sunday, The Financial Gazette, 3Ktv, Radio 3000, BusinessLive and a host of other news products.
With the recent launch of Radio 3000 — our online radio station — the JMS Group has now consolidated its multimedia operations, with its independent and market-leading media brands now spanning television, radio, newspapers, websites, social media, mobile apps and strategic communications.
This means that we are now able to create and distribute content across all key media platforms — to the benefit of you — our audiences and business partners.
Crucially, this means that the JMS Group can now offer a 360-degree media and marketing capability to our advertisers.
In addition, we now also offer our business partners a comprehensive and integrated marketing scope that combines multiple channels and platforms — both online and offline — to create a complete brand experience for targeted audiences.
Back to the Daily News and Daily News On Sunday, our recent celebration of the 15th anniversary of your iconic paper’s relaunch, is testament to an enduring relationship which many headwinds and tempests we encountered in that time, failed to break.
During that time, we created a lasting relationship based on keeping our promises of being unwavering in our practice of, and commitment to public interest journalism under our well-known motto, “Telling it like it is,”.
Since we relaunched the Daily News on March 18, 2011, we have stuck to our mission of providing independent journalism that is neither “pro-government” nor “anti-government” — but rather a medium for vibrant discourse among Zimbabwe’s diverse political, social, religious and civic communities.
This enduring positioning is profoundly important for Zimbabwe’s emerging democratic culture, as democracies thrive when citizens have access to accurate, diverse perspectives and reliable information.
Our editorial stance has emphasised evidence-based reporting and responsible journalism, rather than sensationalism or propaganda.
This consistency and principled approach has been made possible by the feedback that you continuously give us — even when at times it is not palatable!
I am glad to tell you that we have improved markedly in delivering to you consistently and timeously the Daily News and Daily News On Sunday e-papers —as well as the popular SMS news.
Our pledge to you, is that we will continue to improve on the technical glitches that were sometimes experienced in the few occasions that the e-papers were delivered late.
Finally, I would like to promise you that we are doing all we can to recover our original X account which was hacked last year, by international hackers targeting Zimbabwe’s mainstream media. This account means a lot to all of us —including the nearly 700 000 users who were on it.
Regards and thanks.
Guthrie Munyuki
Group Editor-in-Chief