{"id":48551,"date":"2026-03-14T06:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fears-for-press-freedom-as-billionaire-takes-control-of-east-africas-largest-media-house\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:49:31","slug":"fears-for-press-freedom-as-billionaire-takes-control-of-east-africas-largest-media-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fears-for-press-freedom-as-billionaire-takes-control-of-east-africas-largest-media-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears for press freedom as billionaire takes control of East Africa&#039;s largest media house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Rostam Aziz&#8217;s purchase raises questions about continued journalistic independence in the region.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy0d7k75l2go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rostam Aziz&#8217;s purchase raises questions about continued journalistic independence in the region. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48553,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions\/48553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}