---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: May 19, 2007 12:10 PM Subject: Financial Journalists to be barred from NSE To: Business journalists may soon be barred from dealing in stocks and securities at the stock market if their work involves writing stories and analyses on the same. This is among the raft of proposals contained in a new Bill that was tabled in Parliament yesterday. The Bill proposes that financial journalists be barred from dealing in stocks they plan to write on grounds of a possible conflict of interest. "Journalists should not write or broadcast about shares, securities and other market instruments in whose performance they know they or their families have significant financial interest," says the Bill in part. Full story... http://bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1070&Itemid=3880 -- With Kind Regards, Bildad Kagai MD - MediaCorp Limited Suite B2, Tetu Apartments StateHouse Avenue P. O. Box 20311-00200 Tel. 254 20 272 8332 URL. www.mediacorp.co.ke --