# Claim 259

AIPPA required every journalist and media company to be licensed by a government-controlled regulator.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

- Statement: AIPPA required every journalist and media company to be licensed by a government-controlled regulator.
- Field: action
- Value: Law requires universal licensing
- About: [incident 2002-zimbabwe-aippa-media-licensing](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2002-zimbabwe-aippa-media-licensing)
- Source: License to Censor: The use of media regulation to restrict press freedom - Zimbabwe. https://www.refworld.org/reference/countryrep/freehou/2011/en/83645
- Publisher: Freedom House
- Method: outlet report
- Checked: 2026-09-22
- Confidence: medium
- Status: current
- Source date: 2011-01-01

## Quotation from the source

> requires all journalists and media companies to be licensed, imposes strict content restrictions, and grants broad powers to a government-controlled regulator.

Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/claims/259. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.