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Media house closure enters day 3 as Red Pepper prints ‘freedom issue’

The government’s closure of two privately owned Ugandan dailies and two radio stations entered day three today, May 22, with one of the newspapers beating the odds to print what its editors dubbed the “Freedom Issue”. “Red Pepper is back where it started 12 years ago,” reads a post on the paper’s Facebook wall. “Printing […]

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Monitor siege through one employee’s eyes

By Brenda Banura 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. The Monitor Publications’ head office on Kampala’s Eighth Street is a strange sight. In the inside parking yard are six or four armed men in blue camouflage police […]

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