Editing Communications in Madagascar (section)

==Newspapers==
{{main|List of newspapers in Madagascar}}
* ''[[L'Express de Madagascar]]'', privately-owned daily.<ref name=BBC-CountryProfile-Madagascar-2012/>
* ''[[Midi Madagasikara]]'', privately-owned daily.<ref name=BBC-CountryProfile-Madagascar-2012/>
* ''[[Madagascar Tribune]]'', privately-owned daily.<ref name=BBC-CountryProfile-Madagascar-2012/>
* ''La Gazette de la Grande Ile'', privately-owned daily.<ref name=BBC-CountryProfile-Madagascar-2012/>
* ''Lakroa (Cross)'', Catholic weekly.<ref name=BBC-CountryProfile-Madagascar-2012/>

===Press freedom===

While the constitution provides for [[freedom of the press]], the ability of the press to criticize the regime is severely limited. In particular the absence of a communications code protecting press freedoms allows authorities to prosecute journalists under [[libel]] law and the criminal code whenever the content of their reporting offends the facto regime.<ref name=USDOS-CRHRP-Madagascar-2012/>

In November 2012 the de facto minister of communications stated that assertions harming the "general interest" were banned from public media. Gendarmes interrogated the editor-in-chief of ''Le Courrier de Madagascar'' for several hours in April 2012 after he ran a story entitled, "Governance--the Brothel Takes Hold at High Levels." Investigative journalists are often targets of threats and harassment from authorities. In May 2012 police stopped a journalist from ''La Verite'', a pro-regime newspaper, on his way to cover an event in Antananarivo. Police reportedly beat him and broke his arm. All journalists released on bail remained subject to rearrest at any time.<ref name=USDOS-CRHRP-Madagascar-2012/>