By Collins Hinamundi On 30 November 2022, Next Media Services (NMS), the company that owns NBS TV, laid off more than 30 employees amid a global trend of downsizing at tech and financial startups. The move coincided with a similar announcement by Nation Media Group (NMG), the largest multimedia company in East Africa, which revealed […]
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Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny The Supreme Court made ground-breaking findings and pronouncements [in the case of Charles Onyango Obbo vs The Attorney General – Supreme Court Constitutional Appeal No. 2 of 2002]. It held that the freedom of expression guaranteed under Article 29 of the Constitution extended to expression or publication of false news. […]
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By Gerald Walulya and Mulatu Alemayehu Moges Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented economic challenges globally across various sectors, including the media. The economic effects of the pandemic, particularly, have hit the advertising sector, which is the lifeblood of media houses. Despite the raging economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the media, few […]
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This report conducted by the African Centre for Media Excellence with support of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa, set out to analyse the unprecedented challenges faced by the media in Uganda in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the economic fallout of the pandemic and analyses related press freedom violations. The […]
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The outbreak of COVID-19 in the world in late 2019 has led to a dramatic loss of human lives across the world and caused an unprecedented impact on world economic structures, including the media. By December 2020, over 1.9 million people had died of COVID-19, and several dilemmas ushered in by the pandemic highly affected […]
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Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, Rhodes University Journalism globally faces a sustainability crisis. It largely stems from declining advertising revenue, loss of revenue to technology giants, control of news media by political actors and individuals with business interests, disinformation and dwindling public trust. Twisting the knife in the wound, the financial pressure on media organisations has been […]
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More and more good journalists are trading the profession for careers in other fields. Why is this the case and is it something to worry about? We spoke to Samuel Gummah, the Executive Director, Uganda Radio Network about this and a wide range of issues. What can you say about the state of journalism in […]
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By Ivan Okuda It is a known fact, of which we take judicial notice, that the media across the world is in crisis. In the last decade, the media landscape has experienced unprecedented upheaval. Legacy media finds itself competing for audiences and advertising with Silicon Valley giants like Facebook and Twitter. The information space has […]
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