Uganda, Oct. 14 -- It is not a secret that the business of journalism everywhere in the world, like many other businesses, is facing unprecedented existential challenges occasioned by advances in technology as well as shifting market trends and reader or viewer preferences.

Technology has converged the products of journalism into one hand-held device, the smart mobile phone. The result is many media consumers no longer want the bother of picking up a newspaper and sitting to flip through pages or waiting to watch or listen to the evening or hourly news bulletins to know what is happening around them.

News - both fake and real - is all streaming to their smart phone in real-time; from online news platforms, from bloggers, vloggers, and f...