# News Diggers!

> News Diggers! is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Zambia. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Balanced**.

- **Domain:** diggers.news
- **Website:** https://diggers.news
- **Country:** Zambia
- **Region:** Africa
- **Language:** English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Balanced
- **Founded:** 2016 (online); print edition from April 2017

## About

The Zambian paper that spent two months gagged by a court for investigating Chinese capital spent the following election season defending the government from foreign investigators. News Diggers runs a named, paywalled newsroom on a diet of campaign quotes, court dockets and unsigned editorials that scold ministers and opposition cadres in the same week. Its independence is proven, expensive and, on the evidence of 2026, unevenly aimed.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Published by News Diggers Media Ltd, Lusaka. Founded and edited by Joseph Mwenda, formerly deputy managing editor of The Post. A full masthead is published but shareholders and directors are not; no state or party stake was identified.
- **Funding:** Roughly 60 percent corporate advertising, 20 percent government and 20 percent NGO partnerships according to its media-development partner, behind a hard membership paywall priced from 10 to 3,000 kwacha. Also a grant partner in a Southern African media-development programme.
- **Focus areas:** Zambian politics and elections, courts, business and energy, investigative documentary, sport


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Latest headlines

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- [Fire sweeps through Buseko market](https://diggers.news/local/2026/08/31/fire-sweeps-through-buseko-market/) — 2026-08-31T13:15:39.000Z
- [Zambia bow out of Volleyball African championships](https://diggers.news/goal-diggers/2026/08/31/zambia-bow-out-of-volleyball-african-championships/) — 2026-08-31T08:10:24.000Z
- [Zambia shines at Alex Classics as bodybuilders bag three medals](https://diggers.news/goal-diggers/2026/08/31/zambia-shines-at-alex-classics-as-bodybuilders-bag-three-medals/) — 2026-08-31T08:00:44.000Z
- [Govt to launch medium-term revenue strategy consultations](https://diggers.news/local/2026/08/31/govt-to-launch-medium-term-revenue-strategy-consultations/) — 2026-08-31T06:09:39.000Z
- [Police nab Mpongwe man for fertilizer theft](https://diggers.news/local/2026/08/31/police-recover-216-fisp-fertilizer-bags-worth-k226800/) — 2026-08-31T06:06:16.000Z

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-07-28. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 10 (5 themes).

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