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Tips on covering budget day
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Government may well declare all media banned. And then what?
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Here is the NMG/Monitor letter to Museveni
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The 2013/14 Budget Speech
The 2013/2014 budget speech by the finance minister Maria Kiwanuka read on June 13. Click here: The 2013/14 Budget Speech Related Documents: President Museveni's Speech on...
News | Friday, 14 Jun 2013
Tips on covering budget day
Thursday, June 13 is Budget Day in East Africa. ACME talked to several experienced editors and business analysts on what journalists can do...
News | Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013
Government may well declare all media banned. And then what?
The Monitor, Red Pepper, Kyoga Veritas Radio, CBS, KFM. The list continues. The government has closed and reopened at will each one of...
News | Tuesday, 11 Jun 2013
Here is the NMG/Monitor letter to Museveni
Excerpt: "We highly regret the recent incident that led to the closure of the Monitor newspaper and four radios stations. We wish to...
News | Wednesday, 05 Jun 2013
Peter's Blog
A letter to the good people at the Monitor
Thank God you are back in business. I believe many people who took you and KFM for granted only got to fully appreciate your importance when you were...
Peter Mwesige's Blog | Friday, 31 May 2013
Kenyan elections: Making sense of the numbers
For most of the last 24 hours, the media in Kenya and elsewhere have been showing Jubilee candidate Uhuru Kenyatta in a lead over Cord’s Raila Odinga. These provisional...
Peter Mwesige's Blog | Tuesday, 05 Mar 2013
Infusing context, explanation in court reporting
Uganda’s court reporters have been quite busy lately with so many high profile cases involving…
It’s not all gloom in Uganda's oil sector - report
A report on the management of Uganda’s oil, published by Chatham House, a London-based think…
Telling the story of Uganda at 50: Another look
Written by Peter G. Mwesige In the last few months, our newspapers and other mainstream media…
Meg Corrections
Nitpicking the news: NTV 9 p.m. bulletin
Nitpicking the news: NTV 9 p.m. bulletin, Thursday, May 2, 2013 1. Making sense of those rolling news bites Those little rolling news strips across the bottom of the screen...
The NitPicker's Corner: Meg Corrections | Thursday, 02 May 2013
On reporting death
Some media houses - most especially television and radio stations - have been lax in reporting the death of prominent figures. Recently, I watched with dismay as NTV...
The NitPicker's Corner: Meg Corrections | Tuesday, 09 Apr 2013
On Semantics
1. Today we will argue semantics very briefly. The net…
Sunny with a slight chance of wind – welcome to the Gibberish Awards
This week’s Gibberish Award undisputedly goes to this story in…
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