Daily Monitor
Tuesday May 04 2021
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This year’s World Press Freedom Day was celebrated around the theme, ‘information as a public good’. It comes at a time when a sense of the public good is getting lost. Information is often in the hands of the public and citizen journalists are taking matters in their hands.
Our 1995 Constitution provides for access to information and an operational law in the Freedom of Information Act, 2005. The provision for public broadcasting in the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation Act, 2005 completes the circle by providing for an entity that is legally mandated to broadcast with the public interest at heart.