Since 1950s, journalism scholars and practitioners examining the gatekeeper functions of News Media sought to explain why some issues and events became newsworthy while others remained obscure. This work based on "News value theory" assumed that the more the news values a story had, the more its likeliness of reportage and placement in the newspaper. Remarkably, due to the emptiness in the African journalism literature, this work examined the predominant news values in the African press with a comparative analysis of Ugandan Newspapers. The author discovered that all news items analyzed had...