“We have least political talk, ours is developmental content that serves the immediate needs of communities without a profit orientation. Our importance is unarguably relevant but how best can we serve in lack?” said Margaret Sentamu
The 2020 GMMP report released by UMWA observed that there was a low women visibility in news media, only at 24% as news sources and subjects compared to their male counterparts. And yet, only achieved at a 6% rate over a ten year-period of time and a staggering progress as of the March-June 2022 gender responsive media monitoring engagements.
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.
