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Why Museveni’s media beatdown is a smokescreen and ‘rebel’ Gen Tinyefuza is manna from heaven
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Newspapers remain closed as police ignore court order, arrest activists
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Monitor siege through one employee’s eyes
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Why Museveni’s media beatdown is a smokescreen and ‘rebel’ Gen Tinyefuza is manna from heaven
So, again on Monday the Uganda government sent in security forces, ransacked the Daily Monitor, seized its offices, closed down its presses, and...
News | Friday, 24 May 2013
Newspapers remain closed as police ignore court order, arrest activists
Despite mounting condemnation, police on Thursday evening arrested five of several protestors who marched to the Daily Monitor offices in Kampala protesting the...
News | Friday, 24 May 2013
Monitor siege through one employee’s eyes
Day is Monday, May 20, 2013. Time check is 11:30 a.m. By then, most of the reporters and photojournalists have gone to the field....
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Uganda Media Siege: All quiet on the western front
Ugandan police on May 20 raided, cordoned off and eventually shut down two of the East African country’s leading independent media houses, in...
News | Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Peter's Blog
Kenyan elections: Making sense of the numbers
For most of the last 24 hours, the media in Kenya and elsewhere have been showing Jubilee candidate Uhuru Kenyatta in a lead over Cord’s Raila Odinga. These provisional...
Peter Mwesige's Blog | Tuesday, 05 Mar 2013
Infusing context, explanation in court reporting
Uganda’s court reporters have been quite busy lately with so many high profile cases involving corruption. The highest attention has been paid to the State’s case against Geoffrey Kazinda...
Peter Mwesige's Blog | Thursday, 21 Feb 2013
It’s not all gloom in Uganda's oil sector - report
A report on the management of Uganda’s oil, published by Chatham House, a London-based think…
Telling the story of Uganda at 50: Another look
Written by Peter G. Mwesige In the last few months, our newspapers and other mainstream media…
Mulenga set the standard on protection of free speech
Justice Joseph N. Mulenga, who died on Wednesday at the age of 73, enriched Ugandan…
Meg Corrections
Nitpicking the news: NTV 9 p.m. bulletin
Nitpicking the news: NTV 9 p.m. bulletin, Thursday, May 2, 2013 1. Making sense of those rolling news bites Those little rolling news strips across the bottom of the screen...
The NitPicker's Corner: Meg Corrections | Thursday, 02 May 2013
On reporting death
Some media houses - most especially television and radio stations - have been lax in reporting the death of prominent figures. Recently, I watched with dismay as NTV...
The NitPicker's Corner: Meg Corrections | Tuesday, 09 Apr 2013
On Semantics
1. Today we will argue semantics very briefly. The net…
Sunny with a slight chance of wind – welcome to the Gibberish Awards
This week’s Gibberish Award undisputedly goes to this story in…
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