WRITER: Daniel K. Kalinaki. PHOTO/FILE
The last stand-alone Sunday Monitor was published on March 1. On the same day, the President had a “jazz with jjaja” engagement with social media bloggers, influencers, and content creators. In a way, the two events reflect the direction of travel in setting and shaping the narrative of public discourse. Let’s start with the iconic green mast of the Sunday Monitor. If you were a youngish writer in Kampala in the late 1990s, there were two holy grail publications: The EastAfrican weekly or either one of Sunday Monitor or Sunday Vision.
Monitor had been first out of the blocks and with its full-colour print and a lean-back reading experience under the editorship of first Richard Tebere, and then the avant-garde Sim Kyazze. The weekend papers were where big stories broke or were broken. They were also unique in that they all had early editions, which made them both afternoon and morning papers.
