ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT (SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003) 76 Deposit copies The mass media service shall send free deposit copies of a periodical to the Commission and the National Archives. 77 Obligatory reports51 A mass media service shall, if ordered to do so by the Commission, publish, free of charge the full particulars or a summary approved by the Commission of a decision of a court or the Commission pertaining to its mass media service— (a) on the front page or centrespread, if it is a newspaper; or (b) if it is an electronic mass media service, on three consecutive occasions during prime time; or in such other manner as the Commission may prescribe. PART XII JOURNALISTS 78 Rights of a journalist Subject to this Act and any other law, a journalist shall have the following rights (hereafter in this Act collectively referred to as "journalistic privilege") 52— (a) to enquire, gather, receive and disseminate information; (b) to visit public bodies with the express purpose of carrying out duties as a journalist; (c) to get access to documents and materials as prescribed in this Act; (d) to make recordings with the use of audio-video equipment, photography and cinephotography; (e) to refuse to prepare under his signature reports and materials inconsistent with his convictions; (f) to prohibit the publication of, remove his or her signature from or attach conditions to the manner of using a report or material whose content was distorted, in his or her opinion, in the process of editorial preparation; or 53 (g) to circulate reports and materials he prepared under his signature, under a pseudonym or without any signature. 79 Accreditation of journalists (1) No journalist shall exercise the rights provided in section seventy-eight in Zimbabwe without being accredited by the Commission. (2) Subject to subsection (4), no journalist shall be accredited who is not a citizen of Zimbabwe, or is not regarded as permanently resident in Zimbabwe by virtue of the Immigration Act [Chapter 4:02]. 51 Section substituted by s. 15 of Act 5/2003. 52 Introductory words amended by s. 16 of Act 5/2003. 53 Paragraph substituted by s. 16 of Act 5/2003. 36