{"id":198683,"date":"2025-05-23T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-is-there-a-future-for-guineas-press-not-without-the-countrys-banned-media-outlets\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:23:38","slug":"guinea-is-there-a-future-for-guineas-press-not-without-the-countrys-banned-media-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-is-there-a-future-for-guineas-press-not-without-the-countrys-banned-media-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Is There a Future for Guinea&#8217;s Press? Not Without the Country&#8217;s Banned Media Outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"86\">Guinea&#8217;s media regulator just concluded the &#8220;Forum on the Future of the Press,&#8221; an event dedicated to rebuilding the country&#8217;s media landscape, yet six iconic news outlets remain blocked. Four private radio stations and two private television channels have been banned from broadcasting for a year, drastically restricting the population&#8217;s access to diverse sources of information. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for their reinstatement: the future of Guinea&#8217;s media cannot be envisioned without&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505230089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea&#8217;s media regulator just concluded the &#8220;Forum on the Future of the Press,&#8221; an event dedicated to rebuilding the country&#8217;s media landscape, yet six iconic news outlets remain blocked. Four private radio stations and two private television channels have been banned from broadcasting for a year, drastically restricting the population&#8217;s access to diverse sources of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630688:83a6d639a375d1043c28e05e9ff37ec0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,9363,7216,5760,4715,1124,7672,4959,257,17886,6010,254],"class_list":["post-198683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banned","tag-countrys","tag-future","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-guineas","tag-media","tag-news","tag-outlets","tag-press","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630688:83a6d639a375d1043c28e05e9ff37ec0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}