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[Walter Wafula] Media owners and managers in Uganda have been asked to popularise the national anthem on a daily basis, as part of preparations to mark Uganda's golden jubilee independence anniversary on Tuesday, 9 October 2012. |
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[Carole Kimutai] The 14th Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) and All Africa Media Research Conference is currently going on in Uganda's capital, Kampala. The opening day of conference involved engaging discussions on ways of measuring media audiences. |
| KENYA  [Carole Kimutai] Public and private players from various African countries recently met during the third Africa Governance, Leadership and Management Convention 2012 that was held in Mombasa, Kenya. The theme of the convention was: Towards Sustainable Wealth and Job Creation: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa. One of the sessions was dedicated to deliberating on how the media can encourage healthy private public partnership in wealth and job creation in Africa.
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[Walter Wafula] The Foreign Correspondents Association of Uganda (FCAU) in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Victoria University, Tangerine, and def.i.ni.tion, unveiled the inaugural Uganda Press Photo Award last week to promote photojournalism in Uganda. Malcolm Webb, chair of FCAU and correspondent for Al Jazeera English in East Africa, speaks about the awards and photojournalism in Uganda. |
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[Walter Wafula] The Foreign Correspondents Association of Uganda (FCAU) has unveiled the inaugural Uganda Press Photo Award 2012, to promote photojournalism in Uganda. |
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[Carole Kimutai] A few weeks ago, Nation Media Group (NMG), a media house in Kenya sent a notice to its journalists asking them to treat, with skepticism, opinion polls trumpeting the rising or falling fortunes of Kenyan political leaders. "We take the view that, not knowing the sponsors of and how the polling was conducted, we risk our reputation if we play up the "findings" of these pollsters," read the notice. |
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[Carole Kimutai] The winners of the 2012 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award have been named. Business writers George Omondi and Moses Michira, both from the Business Daily were announced winners for the 2012 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award at a ceremony held at The Fairmont, Norfolk on 4 April 2012. |
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[Walter Wafula] Ugandan journalists and media houses have been urged to be more professional in reporting about current affairs in the country to avoid slander and misrepresentation of facts. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Michael Joseph, the former CEO of Safaricom, once described Kenyans as having peculiar calling habits. According to a recent media survey by Ipsos Synovate, Kenyans seem to have another peculiar habit, watching news. The quarter four Kenya Audience Research Foundation (KARF) report shows over 80% of Kenyans read and watch local news. That news is politics. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Canon Middle East, a subsidiary of Canon Europe has re-entered the Kenyan market, taking on a more tactical and aggressive approach to its business development strategy in the country. |
| UGANDA  [Walter Wafula] Ugandan journalists covering the oil and gas industry will be honoured for their work this year, in an effort aimed at raising the profile of good investigative journalism in the country.
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| UGANDA [Walter Wafula] Journalists covering tourism and conservation related issues in Uganda will be recognised at the 2011 Sustainable Tourism Media Awards, according to Abiaz Rwamwiri, the communications specialist at USAID STAR Programme. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] An assistant professor and director at the Institute for International Journalism at Ohio University's Scripps College of Communication, Dr. Yusuf Kalyango last week told a health and development communication workshop in Kenya that bad conditions that prevail in Africa are impeding the growth of African journalists. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Kenya Union of Journalists and Allied Workers secretary general Eric Orina has accused the media of slanted news coverage and unprofessionalism. In a letter to media owners and editors, Orina called for objectivity from the media rather than subjectivity. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Diageo has launched the annual Africa Business Reporting Awards in Nairobi, Kenya. The six year old awards is an initiative of Diageo - a premium drinks business with majority shareholding in East Africa Breweries Ltd (EABL). In 2010, 700 entries from more than 25 countries were received. |
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[Walter Wafula] East African Breweries Limited, a subsidiary of global beverage giant Diageo is set to unveil the 2011 edition of the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards (DABRA) in Uganda this week. |
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[Walter Wafula] Journalists and media houses in Uganda have been urged to provide crucial information that can empower voters to make appropriate decisions as the country nears its 2011 elections. Kintu Musoke, the chairman of the Independent Media Council of Uganda, made the call following his observation of coverage of none-issues by some media after the presidential nominations that took place earlier this month. |
| KENYA [Carole Kimutai] Kenyan journalist Steve Mbogo from the Business Daily newspaper has been nominated as one of the 15 winners of various categories of the Earth Journalism Awards that rewards excellence in climate change reporting. |
| UGANDA [Walter Wafula] Thirteen Ugandan business journalists have been nominated for the first Young Achievers Awards that aims to recognise the efforts of excellent and innovative Ugandan citizens. |
| UGANDA [Walter Wafula] Ugandan journalists have been urged to be more pro-active to increase the level of awareness and deepen the understanding of events at home and worldwide. David Sseppuuya, a former editor-in-chief of the New Vision called on business and financial journalists to lay a foundation for economic financial reporting by being more analytical. |
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