Journalists in ethical quandary over free goodies from government
You are a journalist and government has decided to give you 40 iron sheets. Would you accept them? That is the question being asked and debated in the northern Ugandan …
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Ugandan media braces for threats to journalism
In April 2014, Daily Monitor’s Executive Editor Malcolm Gibson embarked on reorganising the newsroom based on “transparency”, as he and his team pursue “quality journalism”. He released an editor/reporter checklist, …
Read MoreRadio ownership and its impact on political speech in Uganda
The question of who owns the media has in recent years become a growing subject of debate and contention in Uganda. The need to address this question gained greater urgency …
Read MoreGreater care needed on subjective descriptions
By Joachim Buwembo Besigye under the watchful eye of police. There are times when you read a news story and find yourself smiling. Many times it is over a very …
Read MoreMedia bow to officialdom’s threats, abdicate their responsibility
Call me a serial whiner, or whatever, but I must say following the release of Kampala’s mayoral election results on Monday night was painful. Clearly, the Ugandan media gave in …
Read MoreDeliver us from straight news
Two years ago, my friend Bill Ristow, who was a Knight International Journalism Fellow at The New Vision in Kampala, wrote the following in one edition of his weekly training …
Read MoreConfidence In Newspapers And TV News low In U.S.
At least 25 per cent of Americans have no confidence in news provided through traditional media like newspapers and television, a new survey shows. The annual Confidence in Institutions survey …
Read MoreImages of death after Kampala bomb attacks
Four days after the bomb blasts that killed more than 70 people in Kampala on July 11, I received a call from a Ugandan friend attending an international conference in …
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