Vision Group’s Managing Director and CEO Robert Kabushenga has resigned. In a statement released on its website on Friday, Vision Group said Mr Kabushenga announced his resignation to staff in an email. “This is to let you know that for personal reasons I have asked the Board for an early retirement and this has been […]
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Three local language newspapers that were staples of news consumption in Uganda have been closed indefinitely. Orumuri, Etop and Rupiny, published by media conglomerate Vision Group, are no more. Ms Barbara Kaija, the Vision Group Editor-in-Chief, says the closure of the weekly newspapers was long overdue as it was no longer sustainable to keep them […]
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Vision Group, parent company of New Vision, Bukedde, a number of regional newspapers and several broadcast houses, has effected significant salary cuts due to major revenue losses triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. An internal memo from the Managing Director to staff on April 30, 2020, states that the company will implement salary cuts of up […]
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Last year, New Vision photo editor Jimmy Adriko resigned. Adriko, who joined the paper in 1991 as a photographer, spoke to ACME about his 27-year photojournalism journey. What inspired your decision to pursue photography as a career? Money. While in secondary school, I discovered I could make money by taking photos at a fee for […]
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The management of Vision Group has laid off about 60% of the staff at its Urban TV station. In changes communicated to staff on Tuesday, 4 December, Vision Group also announced a restructuring of the station’s programming that will include dropping its news bulletins. The Group’s head of TV, Mark Walungama, said they will still […]
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