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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Journalists covering an event at the Ministry of ICT on June 06, 2020. Photo by Kelvin Atuhaire Two Kampala-based journalists have tested positive for Covid-19, according to the Ministry of Health. “Dear Journalists, please take caution and observe the Ministry of Health preventative measures. The level of complacency among those covering the various activities/events is very […]
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By Julius Mucunguzi There are four skill sets that are slowly but surely dying today: listening, taking notes, remembering, and doing simple arithmetic or what our primary school teachers called mental work. As a trainee journalist at Makerere University in the late 1990s, tape or audio recorders were very few, and perhaps not more than […]
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The Uganda Police Force remains the leading perpetrator of violent crimes against journalists according to the Uganda Press Freedom Index released on Thursday by the Human Rights Network for Journalists- Uganda (HRNJ-U). This is the seventh time in eleven years that the police are topping the list of violators of press freedom. The report titled […]
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