The first half of 2010 has been a period of heightened activity amongst media practitioners in Uganda. It is all because of the government’s proposed changes to the law that governs the print media. The draft Press and Journalist (Amendment) Bill, 2010, seeks to amend the Press and Journalist Act, 2000 (formerly Statute 1995) to […]
Continue readingA week before the killing in Rwanda of Umuvugizi journalist Jean- Léonard Rugambage, his top editor was having coffee with a friend at Café Javas, a trendy eatery at the Oasis Mall in Kampala. Mr. John Bosco Gasasira was stunned when he noticed that six suspicious-looking men had been monitoring him nearby, and soon he […]
Continue readingSomewhere in the middle of his speech before a journalism awards ceremony in Kampala recently, President Museveni had an important question to ask. “So,” he said, “is there press freedom in Uganda?” Journalists who covered the ceremony – the 2010 CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the Year Awards, perhaps the most prestigious event of its […]
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