by Franz Kruger | Feb 17, 2010 | Media freedom
MEDIA in Sub-Saharan Africa are ill-prepared to cover and report on conflict, a top panelist argued during the launch of a report looking at the state of media globally, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. David Makali, the director of the Media...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 16, 2010 | Media freedom
THE South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) has resolved to revive its discussions with senior police leaders to secure the media’s right to report crime stories, according to a report in Business Day Incidents of intimidation of journalists by...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 10, 2010 | Media freedom
UGANDAN media experts are sounding the alarm over what they are calling state orchestrated self sponsorship in Radio Stations countrywide, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. Their alert comes after opposition party leader Kizza Besigye, of...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 9, 2010 | Media freedom
AN OPINION column in Uganda’s leading independent newspaper suggesting parallels between President Yoweri Museveni and former Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos led to criminal libel charges against two journalists today, according to local media...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 9, 2010 | Media freedom
THE Nigeria Guild of Editors ended its one-day Standing Committee Meeting in Lagos with an outright rejection of any effort to have a government-regulated Press Council, although it admitted the need for a regulation, writes Tony Adibe in the Daily Champion. In a...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 3, 2010 | Media freedom
THE attorney general of the traditional Buganda kingdom, Apolo Makubuya, wants the Uganda Broadcasting Council to accord CBS radio a public hearing that will determine whether its owners should apologise or not, writes Josephine Maseruka in...
