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Give journalists free hand to work


Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 05 2021
This photo taken on December 30, 2020 shows Nation Media Group journalist, Derrick Wandera who is attached to Daily Monitor, being led into a Police vehicle in Kalangala where NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi was campaigning. PHOTO | ABUBAKER LUBOWA
Summary
The issue: Press freedom
Our view: The current restriction of media spaces and right to work and earn a decent living are unacceptable.
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The launch on Monday of Uganda Editors Guild in Kampala is a great first step in building solidarity among media managers, evolving internal mechanisms to raise, and address challenges, sue for their rights and also hold ourselves accountable. This also means media houses, their managers and editors now need to be given space to scrutinize own operations. The media houses must now hold their own to as strict ethical conduct and standards and rights as they would others. Even in cases where such internal re ....

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WordPress Freedom Day: UK Minister for Africa to address Eastern Africa Editors


WordPress Freedom Day: UK Minister for Africa to address Eastern Africa Editors
by KEVIN CHERUIYOT
Image: FILE
• James Duddridge will give a keynote speech highlighting the work journalists have done amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
• This year’s commemoration will be the second in a row to be observed amid Covid that has not speared journalists and media houses across the world.
United Kingdom Minister for Africa James Duddridge is set to address the Eastern Africa Editors’ Society on Monday as the world marks World Press Freedom Day.
Duddridge will give a keynote speech highlighting the work journalists have done amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. ....

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Journalist bodies condemn security brutality, CDF apologises


Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
Daily Monitor’s Irene Abalo (centre) is helped by the publication’s acting managing editor (Dailies), Mr Tabu Butagira (right) and another collegue at International Diagnostic Centre where she got treatment after she was beaten by the military police yesterday. PHOTO | MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI
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Journalist bodies have condemned continued the brutal attacks by the military on journalists as they do their work.  
On Wednesday, as the former National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine presented a petition on gross human rights violations to the office of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights in Kololo, the military police descended on journalists battering them up indiscriminately. ....

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EC eases restrictions on media, use of camera during elections


EC eases restrictions on media, use of camera during elections
January 10, 2021
Written by URN
The Electoral Commission (EC) has eased restrictions on use of cameras and other recording devices at polling stations on election day.
Earlier this week, the chairman of EC, Justice Simon Byabakama communicated new guidelines that would apply to the January 14 general election. Contentious among these was the directive that voters will not be allowed to remain at polling stations after voting to witness the vote counting and a ban of cameras at the polling stations. 
The ban on cameras was strangely extended to journalists as well. Opposition political parties, however, questioned the legality o ....

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