Articles by Alex Tumuhimbise

I hold a national diploma holder in journalism and a student of Bachelors in Journalism and mass communication at Uganda Pentecostal University-UPU in Fort portal City. Male by sex aged 30 years. I worked with Liberty broadcasting services Radio and BTV in Hoima City in 2012 where I worked as a radio producer of various program’s documentaries, adverts and talk-shows. In 2012, I joined Emambya FM radio-95.4 in Kakumiro town council, Kibaale district as a news reporter and Radio producer. I was promoted to the post of Deputy Editor. In Mid 2014,I started serving as News Editor. I worked with Uganda Radio Network, Chimpreports Uganda and MK News Link Uganda online news agencies from 2013 to 2016. In 2014 I completed a two phased training in oil and gas reporting on land and environmental affairs at African center for media excellence-ACME in Kampala. With the support of this training, I managed to carry out several story projects on land rights abuses in Buliisa Oil and gas district which featured on Emambya fm radio weekend news magazine and Chimp-reports online news agency. In the same 2014, I succeeded in getting a reporting grant under the EMERTA-Enhanced Media Reporting for Transparency and Accountability from African center for media Excellency-ACME (http://acme-ug.org/) where I carried out a radio investigative report on health theme ‘‘Malnutrition in Kibaale district’’. The story was aired on 95.4 Emambya FM. I worked with Wizzarts media where I reported several documentaries on environmental like silting of River Nkusi and HIV/AIDs. In 2017 I joined Monitor Publications (Daily Monitor/ www.monitor.co.ug one of the leading private news papers under the Nations Media group as a correspondent based in Albertine region. I have worked on several environmental related stories including the effects of stone quarrying by Chinese companies on local communities affected road projects. In September 2020,I worked on investigative story on Illicit Financial Flow with support from Thomson Reuters Foundation-TRF and Wealth of Nations-WON. The story was published in Daily Monitor on 3rd November 2020.