Hayes Mabweazara, University of Glasgow and Bethia Pearson, University of Glasgow Media capture happens when media outlets lose their independence and fall under the influence of political or financial interests. This often leads to news content that favours power instead of public accountability. Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance is a […]
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By Obadia Ismail Otim The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), the sector regulator, on August 9, 2022 handed out its decision in response to complaints against six media platforms that it found in breach of the minimum broadcasting standards, the standards for general broadcast programming, and the code of ethics for journalists. Mr. Odrek M. Rwabogo […]
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Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town A recent report by an independent panel on the ethics and credibility of South Africa’s news media makes for worrying reading. The panel, headed by retired judge Kathy Satchwell, was commissioned by the South African National Editors’ Forum following a series of ethical lapses by the Sunday Times. The […]
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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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The Uganda Communications Commission has ordered the Daily Monitor to immediately suspend its website for failing to register it as per the new directive issued to all online publishers last year. The order to suspend the website was however prompted by a complaint by the Speaker of Parliament over a story run by the website […]
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Uganda’s broadcast regulator has instructed NTV Uganda to stop featuring in its programming the crude language of commentator Frank Gashumba, or else be found in breach of minimum broadcasting standards. In a 10 October 2016 directive that came to light this week via social media, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) says that it had received repeated […]
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This commentary was first published in the 6 October 2016 edition of New Vision. For more information and news on the subject, visit www.newvision.co.ug. *** Parliament recently summoned the editors of several media houses to “clarify” on their publications on Parliamentary expenditure during the Uganda North America Association Conference in Boston. Below is the presentation […]
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