Pioneering a new categorical in the decade of media growth in Uganda, Mama was the first community broadcaster and unique to its nature, a women-focused radio in the country, Africa and second globally.
I am a journalist working with Liberty Radio in Hoima City, I had worked with the media for over four years before getting an opportunity to participate in the UMWA trainings on gender sensitive reporting and interactive dialogues. The UMWA trainings I have attended have helped me discover my worth as a female journalist and […]
The study also realized a gender selective reporting where there is a relationship between the sex of the reporter and the proportion of female and male news subjects appearing in print news stories. Female reporters covered more female news subjects and quoted more females in their stories as opposed to the male reporters. In equal measure, male journalists gave more audience to male sources but also within talk shows of purely male presentation, women suffered a low engagement under similar likelihood.
