New Vision
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) |
Government of Uganda Institutional & Individual Investors |
| Publisher | New Vision Group |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | 2-4 First Street, Kampala, Uganda |
| Circulation | Weekdays & Saturdays:32,500 Sundays:36,500 (2006) |
| Website | Homepage |
The New Vision is one of two main national newspapers in Uganda. It is published by the Vision Group, which has its head office on First Street, in the Industrial Area of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city in that East African country.
It was established in its current form in 1986 by the Ugandan government. It was founded in 1955 as the Uganda Argus, a British colonial government publication. Between 1962 and 1971, the first Obote government kept the name of its daily publication as Uganda Argus. Following the rise to power of Idi Amin in 1971, the government paper was renamed Voice of Uganda. When Amin was deposed in 1979, the second Obote government named its paper Uganda Times. When the National Resistance Movement seized power in 1986, the name of the daily newspaper was changed to New Vision. The Uganda Argus and its successors always presented as the "official" newspaper of the regime in power.
The holding company that owns the New Vision newspaper is The New Vision Printing & Publishing Company Limited, also referred to as the Vision Group. The Group owned other newspapers, radio stations, and two television stations as of October 2009.
On 12 October 2006, William Pike, chief executive officer (CEO) of the newspaper, resigned followed by Editor-in-Chief David Sseppuuya less than two weeks later. Pike had a long history with the paper, starting there as a sports journalist 19 years before. Pike was largely credited with maintaining a degree of editorial independence for the newspaper, though not as much as the fully independent Daily Monitor, the second-largest daily newspaper in Uganda. It was reported in 2006 that "press freedom in Uganda might be in jeopardy", and that Pike was being "forced to resign apparently at the behest of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni".
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