Sierra Leone's government uses libel laws to punish disloyal journalists, and media rights monitors claim that high-level corruption is a taboo subject.
Despite a truly diverse media landscape, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) claims that "journalists are sometimes targets of arbitrary arrest and detention.". The main threat, according to the report, is posed by "politicians who frequently use the police to try to control reporters or hinder their work.".
Unreliable power sources, inadequate funding, and low advertising revenues are some of the difficulties faced by broadcasters. There are numerous radio stations, the majority of which are owned privately.
The state-owned broadcaster in Sierra Leone is known as the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC).
Freetown, Bo, and Kenema all have access to BBC World Service on FM (channels 94, 94, and 95, respectively). In Freetown, Radio France Internationale and Voice of America broadcast on FM.
Despite the low literacy rate in Freetown, dozens of newspapers are published there. The majority of them are privately owned and frequently criticize the administration.
Internet access is restricted by poverty, erratic power supplies, and illiteracy. RSF claims. 12 percent of the population, or 1 point 04 million people, were internet users as of December 2021 (Internetworldstats.com).
- Awoko .
- Times of Concord.
- Time in Standard.
- newspaper called The Calabash.
- telegraph from Sierra Leone.
- State-owned terrestrial network with a small footprint, Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC).
- The national broadcaster in Sierra Leone is owned by the government and is known as SLBC.
- Radio Democracy in Freetown.
- Bo, from Kiss FM.
- Freetown's Skyy Radio station.
- Freetown's Capital Radio is a private station.
- Voice of the Disabled - Freetown.
