Rose Bukirwa

Rose Bukirwa is a Senior News Editor at Uganda Broadcasting Corporation and a fellow of the Berlin Scholarship Program. Her main role in the television department is to guide the journalists in their daily routines. In addition, she engages in special assignments related to topics of social justice, human rights as wells as sexual and reproductive rights. Her mandate also entails to make sure that her colleagues remain safe during their work as journalists. She participates in the Berlin Scholarship Program to improve her knowledge about digital security while doing her journalistic work.

Rose also volunteers with the Media Challenge Initiative, a space created by journalists to provide journalism students a platform to bridge the gap between the theoretical education at college and their practical work. Through hands-on experience, practical trainings, and mentorship the students can gain and deepen professional work experience. After her scholarship at RSF Germany, she would like to pass on the knowledge she has acquired in digital security to the students of the initiative.

The initiative Women in News, from the World Media Association WANiFRA, is another initiative that will benefit from Rose's training and mentoring. She wants to ensure that vulnerable journalists are safer in the future, for example regarding sexual harassment on the internet.