Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) has a new Managing Director. Mr Winston Agaba was appointed this month after an extended search by the UBC Board of Directors. He will officially start work on 1 June 2015, taking over from Mr Angello Nkezza, who served as acting managing director when the post fell vacant in 2014. The […]
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This is an excerpt of an article published by DW Akademie. For more information on the Media Freedom Navigator, visit the DW Akademie website. DW Akademie has launched website featuring information about media freedom worldwide. The Media Freedom Navigator offers an interactive global map that shows users at a glance how organizations like Reporters Without […]
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By Harriet Anena The media in Uganda still depicts women with negative stereotypes and excludes their voices from news and programmes. This emerged during the launch of a manual for gender-sensitive journalism at Protea Hotel in Kampala on 8 May 2015. Dr Patricia Litho, the lead author of the manual, noted that the negative portrayal […]
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By Bernard Tabaire Wrongly spelt words – even of names of sources one has interviewed – atrocious punctuation, and context-free stories are the most irritating things for me about our media. I am leaving out other horrors: grammar, word-usage, syntax, accuracy. For I come not to beat up on the Ugandan media. Plenty of it […]
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PRESS RELEASE Conditions for the media deteriorated sharply in 2014 to reach their lowest point in more than 10 years, as journalists around the world encountered more restrictions from governments, militants, criminals, and media owners, according toFreedom of the Press 2015, released today by Freedom House. “Journalists faced intensified pressure from all sides in 2014,” […]
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Joint message from Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occassion of World Press Freedom Day. Let Journalism Thrive! This is the theme of World Press Freedom Day this year. In 2015, States are accelerating to […]
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