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    Press: The future lies with the Grassroots.

    The Standard EditorBy The Standard EditorJune 18, 2024Updated:June 18, 2024 Slider No Comments3 Mins Read
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    By: Geoffrey Abraham Bakiraasa Ssenoga 

     Doom and Naysayers have a dim view of the future of the Press in this digital age of social media. Not so to Majanga Patrick the leader of the St. Joseph Naggalama press club. The student explains that the press has its inalienable right in any community. It is a watch dog keeping authority in check,  it offers opportunity to speak out and publicizes issues of society. In their school, The Bee, which is a prospective school newspaper  will be  a voice of the voiceless, a mischief watcher, holding the authorities accountable while  branding the school. 

    UCU’S School of Journalism, Media and Communication was part of a universities and tertiary institutions exhibition at St. Joseph Naggalama over the weekend on Saturday, the 16th of June 2024 . This exhibition is a school initiative to support students to make informed career choices in their educational journey.

    Constance Ichuma, an alumnus at St.Joseph Naggalama and a BJMC student at UCU speaking to one of the students during the exhibition

    UCU is well known here with numerous alumni from the school. It is regarded highly as a positive career institutional of  choice for many students as Majanga confirms:  ” UCU ‘s School of Journalism is well known for its practical approach to teaching journalism and communication as well as its diversity into other media categories like film making. It is a positive choice for many A’levels candidates here.”

    The idea of setting up a press club at  St. Joseph Naggalama  came from “above” says Majanga Patrick  who recounts that Monsignor  Richard Kayondo  from Lugazi Diocese, asked the students  to start a press club in 2023, which he then funded , and the  students were very excited about the initiative. 

    They want to ran a newspaper, called The Bee, as part of the press club activities . The name Bee is derived from  the sting activity of the bee which is  vital to keeping vices at bay: “ We are here to act as a watchdog  that stings those vices that happen at school,  bringing them out in a good way so that we can bring about change”,  he said. 

    The club also conducts video coverage of all school events. It is a hub for all those interested in writing , graphics  and media.

    School press clubs like this one at St. Joseph SSS Naggalama help to entrench the importance of the press in society and ensure its continuity, feeding it with nascent press workers;  training institutions like UCU’s School of Journalism, Media and Communication help to professionalise the enthusiastic  youngsters and prepare them for their inalienable vital role in society through academic training .

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