Daily Monitor

Daily Monitor

Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	Nation Media Group
Publisher	Monitor Publications Limited
Staff writers	~300 (2016)[1]
Founded	1992; 32 years ago (1992)[2]
Language	English
Headquarters	29-35 Namuwongo Road (8th Street) Industrial Area Kampala, Uganda
Sister newspapers	Saturday Monitor, Sunday Monitor
OCLC number	44216472
Website	monitor.co.ug

The Daily Monitor is a Ugandan independent daily newspaper. Its name is shared by the Saturday Monitor and Sunday Monitor, which are also published by Monitor Publications Limited.^[3] Daily Monitor averaged a daily circulation of 24,230 newspapers in September 2011.^[4] By the fourth quarter of 2019, that figure had dropped to 16,169 copies daily.^[5]

Location

The headquarters of the Daily Monitor and the Daily Monitor Publications, as well as the printing press of the newspaper, are located at 29-35 8th Street (Namuwongo Road) in the Industrial Area of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.^[6][7]

Overview

The newspaper was established in 1992^[2] as The Monitor, and relaunched as the Daily Monitor in June 2005. The paper asserts that its private ownership guarantees the independence of its editors and journalists.^[8]

The newspaper headquarters are housed in the same building that houses the other investments owned by Monitor Publications Limited, including Daily Monitor newspaper, Monitor Business Directory, Ennyanda sports newspaper (in Luganda), 90.4 Dembe FM radio station (in Luganda and English),^[6] 93.3 KFM radio station, Daily Monitor e-paper, The Monitor E-paper app, and Daily Monitor social media channels.^[8]

Monitor Publications Limited and all its subsidiaries listed above are owned by Nation Media Group,^[1] a media conglomerate, based in Nairobi, Kenya and whose shares are listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and are crosslisted on the Uganda Securities Exchange, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, and the Rwanda Stock Exchange.^[9]

2013 police raid

The premises of the Daily Monitor were raided by Uganda police on 20 May 2013. This happened soon after the paper had published a letter allegedly written by army General David Sejusa, threatening that those opposing Muhoozi Kainerugaba for the presidency risked their lives. Kainerugaba is the son of the long-standing president Yoweri Museveni. The same letter was also published by another Ugandan newspaper, Red Pepper, whose offices were also raided.^[10]

The police siege ended on 30 May 2013, and the newspaper and its radio stations 90.4 Dembe FM and 93.3 KFM Uganda, which had been switched off during the siege, resumed transmission.^[11]

Governance

As of January 2024, the chairman of the board is Samuel Sejjaaka and the chief executive officer is Susan Nsibirwa.^[12]

See also

• List of newspapers in Uganda
• Media in Uganda

References

1. Moses Kaketo (30 June 2016). "NMG Closes 3 Radio Stations And One Television Station in Kenya and Rwanda, To Merge Operations in Uganda". Kampala: News.ug. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
2. Bloomberg (17 March 2000). "The Monitor Publications Limited: Company Overview". New York City: Bloomberg Research. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
3. "Monitor Publications Limited". Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
4. Roselynn Karatsi (21 September 2011). "New Vision is highest read paper - ABC". New Vision. Kampala. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
5. UBN (14 February 2020). "Circulation falls for Uganda newspapers in fourth quarter of 2019". Uganda Business News (UBN). Kampala, Uganda. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
6. Daily Monitor (15 August 2012). "Monitor takes over Dembe FM". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
7. "Location of the Head Office of the Daily Monitor" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
8. Daily Monitor (31 October 2016). "About Us: About Daily Monitor & Monitor Publications Limited". Kampala: Daily Monitor Online. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
9. Juma, Victor (21 February 2011). "NMG set to list on Dar stock exchange". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
10. BBC Reporter (20 May 2013). "Uganda's Daily Monitor raided over Museveni 'plot'". London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Retrieved 31 October 2016.
11. BBC (30 May 2013). "Uganda's Daily Monitor reopens after police closure". British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). London, United Kingdom. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
12. Elizabeth Kamurungi (20 December 2023). "NMG-U's first female boss: Who is Susan Nsibirwa". Daily Monitor. Kampala, Uganda. Retrieved 20 December 2023.

External links

• Official website
• 25 years ago, The Monitor was born. Drama was unfolding in Uganda

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