Month: November 2010

The coverage of international stories in four of the UK’s leading newspapers has shrunk by nearly 40 per cent in the past 30 years, according to a new report. These papers—the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, The Guardian and the Daily Mail—have also relegated international news to the remote pages of their print editions. “International […]

The Daily Monitor, one of the major newspapers in Uganda has released election reporting guidelines for its reporters and editors and also committed itself to offer balanced coverage of the elections to the public. According to a comment by the editors published in the Daily Monitor, November 4, “our news coverage and general management of […]

As Election Day draws closer and a New Year settles in, the print media in Uganda is devising more ways of increasing its readership. While some print media planned to give their readers more, a new daily publication, The Razor was launched onto the print media landscape, increasing the number of English dailies to four. […]

The New Vision has restructured its editorial management team in order to strengthen the newspaper as the leading daily in the country. Announcing the new structure, the Editor-in-Chief, Barbara Kaija and editorial overseer of the Vision Group publications and broadcast platforms, said the appointments were based on merit, considering journalistic experience and management skills. She […]

The Media Council has ordered Red Pepper to pay sh30m in compensation for defaming a city businessman, Habib Kagimu, in two of its articles published in February last year. The paper was also ordered to publish an apology to Kagimu in similar prominence as the defaming stories and to pay the costs of the suit. […]

There were celebrations at Bulange, the seat of the Buganda Kingdom, when CBS was re-opened late last month. The station, in which the kingdom is the majority shareholder, operates from the same place. I have since heard many Mengo loyalists and others shouting themselves hoarse about the latest victory against the central government. I would […]

The High Court in Uganda has ordered the Rolling Stone tabloid to stop publishing the names and photographs of people it says are homosexual. The judge granted a request by gay rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug). The group says some homosexual people were attacked after a previous issue. Giles Muhame, editor of the two-month-old […]