This article was first published in Daily Monitor. *** Media is a big deal. How much of a big deal? Unesco suggests it is a very big deal. “Critical Minds for Critical Times: Media’s role in advancing peaceful, just and inclusive societies.” Themes don’t come as intimidatingly grand as this year’s overall theme for World Press […]
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U.S.-based watchdog organisation, Freedom House, has released its Freedom of the Press 2017 report that shows sharp declines in press freedom around the world. The report was released just two days after Reporters Without Borders published its World Press Freedom Index that pointed to a similar global trend. According to the report, global press freedom […]
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released the 2017 World Press Freedom Index that shows an increase in the number of countries where media freedom has declined. A statement from RSF says the World Press Freedom map is getting darker and media freedom is under threat now more than ever. A total of 21 countries are […]
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Journalists from Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda are invited to apply to participate in a new project on conflict sensitive reporting organized by DW Akademie. The aim of the project is to support practicing and talented African journalists to tell their stories in-depth investigations while unveiling and countering fake news. In addition […]
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National governments remain the single largest source of revenue for news organisations in Africa. In Rwanda, for example, a staggering 85-90% of advertising revenue comes from the public sector. In Kenya, it’s estimated that 30% of newspaper revenue comes from government advertising. In 2013, the government spent Ksh40 million in two weeks just to publish […]
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On 12 April 2017 Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda, Dr Louis Kasekende, presided as chief guest at a gala to announce winners of the Uganda National Journalism Awards. Dr Kasekende challenged journalists, particularly those who report on financial and economic issues, to aim for in-depth and analytical reporting in order to explain essential […]
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NBS Television’s journalists emerged winners in the 4th edition of the Uganda National Journalism Awards held last evening.
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