This week, a Ugandan media personality, MC Ollo (real name Stanley Odong), sparked outrage with a tweet mentioning a musician’s daughter. The tweet claimed he visited her dormitory room at a renowned all-girls school. Meant to be humorous, the post backfired spectacularly. It overshadowed MC Ollo’s reason for being at the school (an event) and, […]
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Franz Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand For more than a century, journalism education prepared young people for the role of full-time professionals employed by sizeable news organisations. But the advertising-based business model that sustained journalism is collapsing because of new technology, and jobs of the old kind are becoming scarce. The educational model, too, must […]
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Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash. Jared Obuya, Moi University In Kenya, there’s growing debate about media accountability – that the media should act in the interests of the public good, and that it’s accurate, free and fair. Most of the debate has focused on the lack of quality journalism and a decline in journalistic ethics. […]
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