By Bernard Tabaire Wrongly spelt words – even of names of sources one has interviewed – atrocious punctuation, and context-free stories are the most irritating things for me about our media. I am leaving out other horrors: grammar, word-usage, syntax, accuracy. For I come not to beat up on the Ugandan media. Plenty of it […]
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PRESS RELEASE Conditions for the media deteriorated sharply in 2014 to reach their lowest point in more than 10 years, as journalists around the world encountered more restrictions from governments, militants, criminals, and media owners, according toFreedom of the Press 2015, released today by Freedom House. “Journalists faced intensified pressure from all sides in 2014,” […]
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Joint message from Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occassion of World Press Freedom Day. Let Journalism Thrive! This is the theme of World Press Freedom Day this year. In 2015, States are accelerating to […]
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