A report by the anti-corruption agency has revealed that the media's role in combating graft declined significantly in 2021.
According to the EACC corruption survey, there were fewer respondents (61.7%) that rated the media as doing enough in the fight against corruption.
This was a climb-down from 77.8 percent in 2018 recorded in the 2018 survey done by the EACC.
Radio remained in the lead with a preference of 86.7% followed by Television with 72.5 percent.
Social media stood at 24 percent while newspapers received the support of 14.8 percent as sources of information on corruption and unethical conduct in the past 12 months.
Regional and vernacular radio stations are the most listened to by 35.6 percent of the respondents followed by Radio Citizen (18.0%), Radio Jambo (9.8%) and Radio Maisha (7.5%).
The Daily Nation Newspaper recorded the highest preference rate of 61.3 percent followed by the Standard Newspaper (25.9%) and Taifa Leo (4.1%).
Citizen Television is the most widely watched TV station with 55.4 percent of the respondents followed by KTN (6.3%) and NTV (5.0%).
Whatsapp was the most preferred social media platform as mentioned by 45.6% of the respondents followed by Facebook (31.1%), Twitter (3.6%) and Youtube (1.5%).
