Why digital innovations on information exchange should support freedom of expression for media to thrive

Journalists covering Azimio protests on March 30, 2023. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

The world is going digital; so is the media. One of the lessons learnt during the Covid-19 pandemic era is that the media should have embraced digitization earlier.

Even for those platforms that had already started using digital tools in journalism, such steps were being taken as an alternative and not as the standard mode of operation. If asked, such platforms would have cited the high cost of investments in technology and the much-feared effects of "digital disruption" as the reason for the slow pace of tech adoption in the media sector.