SECTOR 4

4.10 Journalists and other media practitioners
are organised in trade unions and/or professional
associations.
Analysis:

There are a number of media associations (at one point they numbered 56) and
one trade union, the Uganda Journalists’ Union.
In every region there is a press club. At national level, there are the Eastern Africa
Media Institute-Uganda, Uganda Journalists Association, Uganda Journalists
Union, Human Rights Network for Journalists, Uganda Media Women’s
Association, and many others. All these organisations exist but are journalists
really organised in them? Do they pay membership fees? Are they active in them?
The answer is: not quite. And the panel was fairly divided in its judgement.

Scores:
Individual scores:

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70

1

Country does not meet indicator

2

Country meets only a few aspects of indicator.

3

Country meets some aspects of indicator

4

Country meets most aspects of indicator

5

Country meets all aspects of the indicator

Average score: 			

2.4

(2007: 2.8)

Average score for sector 4:

2.4

(2007: 2.5)*

OVERALL COUNTRY SCORE: 2.3

(2007: 2.3)

For 2009 the indicators were reviewed, amended and some new indicators such as those addressing
Information Communication Technology (ICT) were added. Consequently, the comparison of some
indicators of the 2005 and 2007 report is not applicable (n/a) in some instances in which the indicator is
new or has been amended. Evidently, this has to be taken into account too, when the overall sector scores
are compared.

AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER UGANDA 2010

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