The study focused on health reports in Daily Monitor, New Vision, The Observer, The Independent and Bukedde. The study shows that the five publications carried more hard news compared to other stories.
According to information obtained by URN, the deceased collapsed at her home in Mafuddu Sub County in Sironko district about two weeks ago and was rushed to General Clinic in Mbale town. She was later transferred to Mount Elgon Hospital before being moved to Masaba Wing in Mbale Regional Hospital on Thursday this week.
The whistle-blower indicated that Obore did not have the minimum 10 years of service, a requirement set by the Public Service Commission for one to be appointed a director and that he did not possess a Masters degree as required by the Public Service Commission.
First, the BOU did not take Shs 478 billion from an undisclosed account. The BOU provided a loan to Crane Bank and this money came from the BOUs own resources. The BOU is a Central Bank and like any other Central Bank it can create financial assets and liabilities. In this case the BOU created a financial asset the loan to Crane Bank which was matched by an equivalent liability an increase in the money supply.
Trouble emerged for the two journalists identified as Robert Owot attached to Daily Monitor and Regina Lalam a freelance journalist attached to Luo FM as they were covering a three-day session where the district public accounts committee summoned over 47 district officials to answer financial queries lodged against them.
Nakitende Haddijah, the Business Development Manager Sunrise Newspaper, says although they are still printing on the standard newsprint, the cost of the newsprint has increased by 50.
More than a month after Charles Etukuri, a senior journalist at the Vision Group, was kidnapped and held incommunicado for a week, there is still debate about the conduct of journalists when covering security services. Many scholars rightly argue that journalists and intelligence services share a common interest--information--and that the relationship between the two is an enduring one. Both collect information but for different audiences and purposes. While spies are in the business of secrecy, the business of journalists is that of exposure, including watching over the intelligence agencies. Herein lies the line that journalists ought to observe at all times.
Deogracious Katongole, a political science student at Makerere University told URN at around 11am that he had also tried to access the Daily Monitor website in vain. According to Katamba, some of his colleagues decided to Virtual Private Network-VPN, which allows user to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network
Bunyoro King Solomon Gafabusa Iguru has reshuffled his cabinet, naming among others a Daily Monitor journalist Francis Mugerwa as Minister of Information ICT and Kingdom spokesperson.
