The Observer has today, 6 December 2017, switched back to a weekly newspaper, five years after it started publishing three times a week. The Managing Director, Mr James Tumusiime, told ACME that publishing a tri-weekly was no longer financially sustainable. “It was no longer cost-effective for us to print three issues,” Mr Tumusiime said. “We […]
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This article was published in The Observer. *** The failure and subsequent resolution of Crane bank has continued to dominate news headlines. Unfortunately, much of the commentary on this issue, in the mainstream media, and especially on social media, betrays a profound misunderstanding of how bank supervision works and what can realistically be achieved by a […]
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This article, published in The Observer of 24 July 2017, is republished with the paper’s permission. ******* ERIAS MULINDWA MUWONGE, one of the most influential and controversial talk show hosts, breathed his last on 18 July 2017. The Observer’s ABUBAKER MAYEMBA looks back at his career that won him as many friends as adversaries. Mulindwa’s […]
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Observer journalists scooped five awards at the fourth edition of the annual Uganda National Journalism awards, which took place at the Golf Course hotel on Wednesday night.
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Six years ago, Ugandan journalist Benon Herbert Oluka had a light bulb moment: independent funding of enterprising, in depth, sustained investigative journalism was happening around the world; why couldn’t it happen here? The result was a journey to the birth of The Watchdog, an investigative journalism foundation housed at The Observer newspaper. Through The Watchdog, […]
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This article was first published by The Observer. Africa will always be painted as a hopeless place by the Western media as long as the African media fails to tell the stories of innovation and industry on the continent, Trevor Ncube, an accomplished media entrepreneur and publisher, said on Wednesday. Speaking at the inaugural annual […]
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