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Daily Monitor Tuesday May 04 2021 Advertisement This year’s World Press Freedom Day was celebrated around the theme, ‘information as a public good’. It comes at a time when a sense of the public good is getting lost. Information is often in the hands of the public and citizen journalists are taking matters in their hands.  Our 1995 Constitution provides for access to information and an operational law in the Freedom of Information Act, 2005. The provision for public broadcasting in the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation Act, 2005 completes the circle by providing for an entity that is leg...

Share In commemoration of this year’s World Press Freedom Day, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), on Monday condemned in strong terms, what it described as attempts muzzling the media, urging governments at all levels in Nigeria to value information as a public good and treat the conveyors of information as partners, instead of seeing them as enemies. NGE in a statement signed by its president, Mustapha Isah and its General Secretary, Mary Atolagbe, stated that the media is a partner and critical stakeholder in the national project, having played a major role in the struggle for independe...

Move Jailed Kerala Journalist To Delhi For Treatment: Supreme Court To UP Move Jailed Kerala Journalist To Delhi For Treatment: Supreme Court To UP On April 24, Mr Kappan's wife had petitioned the Chief Justice of India, saying her husband, who was infected with coronavirus, has been tied to a cot at a hospital in Mathura and not even allowed to go to the toilet. The Supreme Court said Siddique Kappan can be sent back to the Mathura jail after he recovers. New Delhi: Jailed Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan should be shifted to AIIMS or any Delhi government hospital for treatment, the Su...

THE STANDARD By Mercy Asamba | March 1st 2021 at 15:57:02 GMT +0300 Kenya Editors Guild (KEG) President Churchill Otieno at a past event. [File, Standard] The Kenya Editors’ Guild has written to the National Assembly to petition over the removal of Media Council of Kenya board member. In a letter to Clerk of the National Assembly, Michael Sialai, the Editor’s Guild President Charles Otieno said the purported removal of Tabitha Mutemi outside the procedures outlined in the Media Council Act will destabilize MCK. “Our petition, attached, sets out our reservations which are grounded on t...

Bangladesh Observer (formerly Pakistan Observer), on February 13, went past quietly, unnoticed both by the press circle and civil society. This amounts to disparaging the contribution of a pioneering elder in the profession who had virtually laid the foundations of our nascent English journalism and brought it to a solid footing. It is more often than not we tend to forget our heroes, which in terms of historical perspective is an obvious fault line in our culture. Such anniversaries provide meaningful perspective to the legacies and challenges they faced in discharging their obligations to ...