A few weeks ago somebody posted on social media a screenshot of Nation Media Group Uganda’s Managing Editor Tabu Butagira email asking editors to promptly flag stories about President Museveni or his family for the attention of the NMG Uganda General Manager (Editorial) Daniel Kalinaki. The person who posted the screenshot had a few words: […]
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By Daniel Kalinaki in the Eastern Africa Journalism Review When 60 African journalists met in Windhoek in May 1991, they had many reasons to be optimistic about media freedom on the continent. The winds of change that had ended the Cold War and blown away the Berlin Wall had stirred a palpable sense of optimism […]
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This joint editorial, prepared by the newly-launched Uganda Media Sector Working Group, was published by several news media in commemoration of World Press Freedom Day 2021. This year’s World Press Freedom Day is dedicated to reflecting on Information as a Public Good. It is a timely moment to highlight the uniqueness and importance of ‘information’ […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that the role of African journalists in nurturing democracy through fact-based and pluralistic debate is still far from assured, a new study from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) indicates. In its 2020 World Press Freedom Index RSF notes that instead of allowing journalists to do their job of reporting the news, […]
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Photo by Katumba Badru Full text of the speech by Nicole Bjerler, Head of the Democratic Governance Facility- Uganda, at the 2020 Uganda National Journalism Awards 2020. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very honoured to join you here at this year’s Uganda National Journalism Awards, organized by ACME with funding support from the DGF. I […]
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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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Aimé-Jules Bizimana, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) and Oumar Kane, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) The general and presidential elections of May 2020, followed by the death of President Pierre Nkurunziza, put the international media spotlight on Burundi. The country is now facing one of the darkest times in its history since the […]
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Julie Reid, University of South Africa This is an edited extract from Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media by Dale McKinley and Julie Reid. “If journalism is a force of immense influence – and I think it is, and should be – then it surely deserves scrutiny.” These are the words of […]
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