Benon Herbert Oluka
Freelance contributor
Benon Herbert Oluka is an Ugandan multimedia journalist, a co-founder of The Watchdog, a centre for investigative journalism in his home country, and a member of the African Investigative Publishing Collective. Oluka’s work has been recognised three times on the African continent as winner of the 2008 Akintola Fatoyinbo Africa Education Journalism Award (First Prize, English category), the 2011 CNN-MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award (Tourism category) and the Thomson Reuters’ 2011 Niall FitzGerald Prize for Young African Journalists.
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How African news organisations can build strong alliances across the continent
“African voices need to be heard in global policy-making,” says media scholar Herman Wasserman, author of a recent report on collaboration.
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How Ethiopian news media have become dangerously divided along ethnic fault lines
As the government expanded media freedoms, journalism flourished but it also became much more polarised, Benon H. Oluka reports.
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“Younger audiences are quite unforgiving when it comes to poor quality content”
Njoki Chege, who leads the Media Innovation Centre at the Aga Khan University in Kenya, speaks about the future of journalism in East Africa.