Uganda, April 12 -- This year's World Press Freedom Day (WPFD-2024) is only a fortnight away. It falls on May 3, 2024. The theme is: "A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the face of the Environmental Crisis." This year's theme departs from the usual focus on what is happening to journalists and journalism, especially in terms of safety [this is very important], and instead focuses on what journalists and journalism can do in the face of climate change and its disastrous consequences.

There is already a deliberate focus on environmental stories in the media across the world. Daily Monitor, for instance, has in recent weeks been running a regular series of climate change stories. That is good.

While the media has consistently published ...