ABSTRACT
This chapter describes as its fulcrum and point of departure archived documentary evidence of how the press in colonial Zimbabwe in the early days of the attempted, though feebly, to fight back and resist official censorship policy of the regime. It discusses the factors both internal to the news work process itself and some external to the newsroom and more structural that may impinge on the more intractable less visible blank spaces in the news in Zimbabwe since the end of official censorship. The chapter examines the universally accepted conventional wisdom in news production, journalists observe in determining what qualifies as news. It also discusses the difference between whiteouts imposed by external censors, ordinarily called censorship, and those that come about as a result of the felicitous application of accepted norms of professional journalistic practice.
