In October 2022, INMA awarded 30 young professionals around the world its third “30 Under 30” award as part of its Young Professionals Initiative. This is the 22nd in a series of 30 features about the impressive rising media stars who are shaping our industry.

As a broadcast journalist, Dan produced investigations that have touched the nation, invoked debate, and forced policy changes. He broke the story of the rise in water levels of Lake Victoria (the largest freshwater lake in Africa), investigated organised gangs, enchroachment on wetlands, illegal dealings in organisations, and injustices in health services. 

His highly lauded work has won national awards, and in 2021 he founded an ambitious news project called 24/7, Uganda’s first round-the-clock news service as well as the first fully digital news service in Uganda. The channel was the first in Uganda to put news content on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, and this is just the beginning.

“I hope to build 24/7 to become Uganda’s most-watched news service and expand the news service to the rest of East Africa,” he said. He also plans to develop an app where people can not only watch the channel but contribute content through an open-source newsroom.

“In the next five years, the 24/7 Foundation and Academy should be created to train the next breed of digital journalists who will use new media to tell compelling stories,” he said.

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