Motunrayo Alaka the leading advocate for the development of investigative reporting and accountability journalism suggested that to fight through for women visibility and gender equality, there is need to make more intentional steps by starting from teaching media.
As the novel coronavirus infections surge at a 17% infection rate according to Ministry of Health, the media fraternity has its own increasingly getting infected and sadly lost in the 626 Covid-19 deaths registered so far in Uganda. These cut across various newsrooms.
This is where Uganda Communications Commission-UCC comes in. The regulator needs to use its Content Committee, established under Section 14 of the UCC Act, 2013 to enforce fair gender representation and gender sensitive content.
