Uganda

Jul 202012

African Media Trainers Focus on Health Data

by Chris Conte

Entebbe, Uganda – Leading journalists from across Africa have teamed up with international demography experts to train journalists how to report on important demographic and health data.

Program: 
Nigeria: Launch New Multimedia Health Section

Entebbe group

African journalists attended a demographic and health data workshop in Entebbe, Uganda, with the goal of improving the depth and quality of health reporting across the continent.

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Frank Nyakairu, a winner of the Knight International Journalism Award for his investigative reporting on Joseph Kony, gives his take on Invisible Children's KONY 2012 campaign.

Jan 72011

News Reports Detail Lack of Action During Polio Outbreak; Ugandan Government Launches Vaccine Drive

by Knight Staff

When young children in Uganda suddenly began testing positive for polio in the fall of 2008, Dr. William Mbabazi, a World Health Organization epidemiologist, wanted officials to launch an aggressive vaccine drive.

Program: 
Uganda: Setting a New Standard for Health Journalism in Africa

Uganda: Journalism Training (2005)

In Partnership With: 
Monitor Publications, Ltd

Knight International Journalism Fellow Rosemary Armao completed six months of journalism training in Uganda in 2005 partnering with the Monitor Publications, Ltd.

Uganda: Journalism Training (1996)

In Partnership With: 
Uganda Management Institute

Knight International Journalism Fellow Leanne Waxman Italie completed nine months of journalism training in Uganda in 1996 partnering with the Uganda Management Institute.

Uganda: Journalism Training (2007)

In Partnership With: 
New Vision

Bill Ristow is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who completed nine months of journalism training in Uganda in 2007 partnering with New Vision. Ristow trained the staff of the Kampala-based flagship daily and Sunday papers of Uganda’s New Vision newspaper group in writing, editing and newspaper-management skills. He also worked with three rural, local-language weeklies and coached mass communications students at Makerere University.

Working with Bill, The New Vision implemented an accuracy and corrections policy.

Uganda: Setting a New Standard for Health Journalism in Africa

In Partnership With: 
The Monitor

Knight International has made huge inroads in health coverage in Uganda. Over the past 2.5 years, Knight Fellow Christopher Conte has developed a vibrant community of journalists who now have the expertise to tackle tough health issues including the AIDS epidemic and health-care spending.

Oct 82010

Citizen Journalism in Uganda

by Christopher Conte

Cradling a dead baby in her arms, a girl weeps as she walks alone down a dirt road in eastern Uganda.

About a year earlier, she learned she was pregnant. She turned to the baby’s father and his family for help and support, but they denied responsibility. Then, her own family spurned her. Though still a child herself, she had no choice but to leave her village and fend for herself. Six months later, she returned with the child, who had been born but subsequently died. She needed to find a place to bury him. But again the father, his family and her own family rejected her.

Jul 242010

Mobile phone technology meets citizen journalism

by Christopher Conte

When my health-journalism fellowship began two and a half years ago, I dreamed about finding the “killer app” for mobile telephones that would revolutionize journalism in Africa.

I didn’t make much headway, and the dream came to look like a wild fantasy. But today, 26-year old Lydia Namubiru is engineering the kind of leap forward I once dreamed would be my claim to fame.

The diminutive Ugandan was working as a features writer for the New Vision newspaper when I arrived in her country at the beginning of 2008.