How to access E-newspapers in Uganda

Trusted e-newspaper sources in Uganda
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E-newspapers remains the cleanest way to stay updated within this lockdown. Regardless of your favorite newspaper that you receive while locked up in Traffic jam, we know a list of ‘places’ where you can access e-newspapers in Uganda. These so-called places, which are right on your handset/smartphone, help you access Ugandan newspapers online wherever and whenever you are.

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Take an insistence, have you been in a situation hungry for news and the only thing that you can abide with is that day’s newspaper?—yet in one way or another, you can’t access one at the moment. Maybe, because it’s raining cats and dogs and you can’t run to the nearest newspaper stall.

Take this usual incidence, UNEB results are back. You may walk the entire city without finding any single paper hanging on the on those old newspaper booths. What next? — E-newspapers comes in.

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Best e-newspaper sources in Uganda

This article guides you on how to access E-newspapers in Uganda, and the different apps for buying and reading newspapers online. Where else can you find news in Uganda apart from watching it on the Televisions? I’ve generated an outline for you below showing different ways to do this in Uganda

  1. E-Newspaper apps
  2. Social media follow-up
  3. Official news websites

1. E-newspaper apps

Newspaper apps, made available by different news and media groups in Uganda can help you digitally follow up important headlines of the day. There is no need for you to rub shoulders with strangers in this time of Covid-19 while hunting down every single piece of that day’s newspapers along the streets.

The good news in this is; you have many options on your disposal from which you can make your desire online news selection. Today, almost every news brand in Uganda has got a mobile app through which they can reach you with their latest news.

NOTE: To access the daily newspapers (i.e Today’s news) in an online copy, most newsgroups require you to subscribe and pay a fee to enable you to access this news to your registered app account. Check the image below.

Through the official websites of these newspapers, you can get daily news bytes BUT not the full day’s newspaper. To view the full daily newspaper (in the online copy), you should pay and subscribe, as earlier explained.

Let’s see some of the e-newspaper apps in Uganda you can select from and read daily online news.

  • Daily Monitor App
  • NewVision Group App (Under here you can get The New vision, Bukedde and The Kampala Sun online)
  • The Observer
  • Uganda Newspapers

Daily Monitor E-newspaper App

Daily Monitor makes its E-newspaper App available, where you can read your favorite headlines in a digitized format on your gadget wherever you are anytime. You should however note that Data charges apply while using the E-newspaper App, and it’s only free for the first two weeks of usage.

The E-newspaper App is available for both iPhone and Android smartphones. With a small size and easy to work with interface, it’s a good deal for any news addict.

Access news online in Uganda

NewVision Group App

Another e-newspaper App on our list is the NewVision Group’s App presenting the famous NewVision e-newspaper. Its best known for the most captivating, deep, and informative feature stories and balanced news in Uganda and you can now access all this readily on your Smartphones.

This mobile application allows you access to all its print publications, including New Vision, Kampala Sun, and Bukedde. You can download this app here for Android users and iPhone users.

Note: You should remember that all these NewVision e-newspapers are for purchase and below is the price for the different papers available in this application.

  • New Vision > UGX 1000
  • Bukedde > UGX 500‌

The Observer Uganda

The observer Uganda is among the few e-newspapers you can access for FREE online. This is what they claim, however, many users have complained about the app not being user-friendly.

You can download the Observer Uganda app on the Google Play store or App store.

Other platforms like The Independent offer free access to their e-newspapers online via their website under the e-paper column.

Uganda Newspapers App

Another Ugandan E-newspaper you might want to try out is the Uganda Newspaper App. This is not a media house with daily e-newspaper publications, like all the above. The app uses live RSS feeds to collect live updates and links from official news websites in Uganda, and beyond. You can basically get live news updates of the latest online blogs published on all your favorite Ugandan news websites.

The App is faster, free, and saves data! It is available on Google play store. With this newspaper App, you can keep updated with the latest news, though not the daily e-newspaper from your favorite print media.

Note: Uganda Newspaper App doesn’t own the news displayed in the Newsfeeds section, rather it links each headline displayed to the original content owners as named at the beginning or end of the headline. Thus, it’s just a newspaper App as described by the name and not a newspaper brand.

Features of the Uganda Newspaper App

  • You manager the newspapers and sources to read from
  • Font size is adjustable
  • News-lists from newspapers
  • Standard sources settable
  • New sharable via e-mail, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter
  • Optimized for low data speed
How to access E-newspapers in Uganda

2. Social Media

Social media is the easiest news platform where everyone can access the latest updates on-the-go. While watching through other people’s tweets, or posts on Facebook, you easily can get to know what’s happening in the world, the latest political news roaming, sports, and in the entertainment industry.

However, all this may not be as accurate as gotten from the actual sources mentioned above under the E-newspaper section. This means that you have to be keen and selective about the news you find there. You can do more by following famous and trusted journalists who have made a name already, like their pages, and following important news brands on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

3. Official news websites/Blogs

Following Official news websites or some blogs is another way you can stay updated about the current happenings in the country without having to dwell on your TV screen as a routine of sorts, or shouldering down your way into the rains to pick your favorite print newspaper.

Trusted brands where you can get updated news include but are not limited to: NewVision, The Independent, Daily monitor among others.

You cannot fail to get your news online in Uganda from these websites.

Conclusion

Hopefully, this guide on how to access e-newspapers online in Uganda has been helpful. When you try to buy newspapers online in Uganda, please share with us your experience. Also, in case we missed including your go-to source for e-newspapers in Uganda, our comments section is open below.