By Lydia Namubiru Journalists in Uganda, as elsewhere, have always worked with numbers in the news. Typically, though, these tend to be numbers handed down by an agency or researcher who deals with data more regularly than them. Usually, journalists take these numbers and use them as garnish for stories, scattering them here or there […]
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By Tabu Butagira I am catching the tail end of a war of words between the Ugandan Parliament and journalists accredited to cover its proceedings. The Clerk to Parliament, Ms Jane Kibirige, wrote to media houses on March 9, asking editors to swap reporters who have covered the August House for five or more years […]
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15 years ago, a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Study Group on ‘Parliament and the Media’, released recommendations on ways to enhance information flows and improve relationships between national legislative bodies and journalists. The association, to which Uganda is party, recommended that parliaments should “repeal legislation, rescind Standing Orders and/or publicly abandon their traditional authority to punish […]
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The Executive Editor of Monitor Publications Limited, Mr. Malcolm Gibson, has resigned slightly after a year into his two-year tenure. The resignation was announced by acting MPL Managing Director Stephen Gitagama in an email to staff on Wednesday, 11 March. “This is to announce the resignation of Mr. Malcolm Gibson from the position of Executive […]
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The position ACME is in the market for a dynamic, creative, open-minded, quick-learning, team-oriented, hard working, fast thinking Online Content Editor. The role You will work with ACME’s founders and senior managers to promote the key objectives of helping Ugandan journalists to seek and achieve professional excellence as well as helping to make our news […]
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President Yoweri Museveni continues giving. This has been a good week for (news) copy, as my former editor would have said many years ago. After the cabinet reshuffle (the recycling notwithstanding), the newsmaker-in-chief has given again, this time announcing the appointment of Justice Bart Katureebe of the Supreme Court as Chief Justice of Uganda. I […]
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Uganda has never been known as a literary powerhouse, but times the times are a-changin’, as Bob Dylan sang. In the past 24 months several notable autobiographies, memoires, poetry anthologies, books of narrative nonfiction and award-winning literary works by Ugandan writers have raised the bar for the country’s budding authors. Integral to this revolution are […]
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This article was first published on Simon Kaheru’s blog, Scare-a-hero. For more of Simon’s observations, analysis and opinion, visit his blog here. Let’s start off bland: Journalism is a profession. More realistically, though: Journalism is supposed to be a profession. The second statement there is more accurate than the first – and accuracy is one […]
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