A few weeks ago somebody posted on social media a screenshot of Nation Media Group Uganda’s Managing Editor Tabu Butagira email asking editors to promptly flag stories about President Museveni or his family for the attention of the NMG Uganda General Manager (Editorial) Daniel Kalinaki. The person who posted the screenshot had a few words: […]
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In the wake of last week’s egregious assault of Ugandan journalists by the military, a number of commentators have taken issue with what they consider a parochial reaction by the media fraternity. These critics have scoffed at what they have taken to be a suggestion that journalists are special. Some of them have argued, rightly […]
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This article was first published in New Vision on 18 December, 2020. The Uganda Media Council, the regulator of journalists and the print media in the country, has finally made it back to the headlines like its richer cousin, the Uganda Communications Commission. Not to be outdone, UCC has taken to writing to the tech behemoth Google […]
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Photo by Charles Nambasi from Pixabay First, let me commend the Ugandan journalists who have gone to great lengths, sometimes at great risk to their own safety and lives, to tell the Covid-19 story. Recently a senior Ministry of Health official told us journalists are a high risk group, and 50 had contracted Covid-19. So, […]
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Image from Makerere University Twitter account This article has been inspired by a call from a veteran journalist and media trainer, John Baptist Wasswa to a WhatsApp group of former students of Journalism and Mass Communication at Makerere University who had spent several hours mourning the destruction at the main building. He said: “Well well […]
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The so-called scientific election in which media-based campaigns have replaced (sort of) mass public rallies appears to have given Uganda’s traditional news media a new lease of life. The sales and marketing departments of different media houses are working in overdrive to come up with all sorts of packages for the multitudes of candidates vying […]
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The results of the opinion poll by Research World International (RWI) have predictably provoked debate (and in some cases anger and outrage) not only about the accuracy of the results, but also the timing of their release. The Uganda Governance Pulse survey, which was bankrolled by civil society organisations led by the Great Lakes Institute […]
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A lot has been written about the credible claim that the future of media is digital. Sadly we still appear to be paying more attention to the medium than to content. Take the treatment that our leading newspapers gave to the story of the boda boda rider who doused himself with petrol and burnt himself […]
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