Uganda, Sept. 23 -- Yesterday, the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) held a stakeholders' workshop to reflect on media support and development in Uganda. One of the areas of reflection was journalism as a profession and media as a business.

The journalism profession and media business have suffered monumental disruption by advances in communications technology as well as the emergence and rise of citizen journalism.

The result is that journalists as storytellers are drowning in the turbulent sea of information that has been unleashed by increased internet connectivity and versatile hand-held devices like mobile phones.

Similarly, newspapers, television, and radio (and their online websites) collectively referred to as "old med...