User:Flymasiga

Fredrick M. Masiga is a Ugandan journalist, a former Managing Editor and a business entreprenuer. He is a co-founder and chief executive officer of JF&LG Investments Ltd, a family startup real estate and retail company started in 2010 in Uganda. Fredrick is known for his journalism career spanning more than a decade with the Nairobi-based Nation Media Group -NMG. Born in Soroti district, Fredrick attended several primary and secondary schools countrywide before graduating at the prestigious Makerere University with degree Honours in Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Literature and Political Science. He has also acquired several post graduate certificates, in business and finance reporting and investigative journalism. He is an alumnus of Reuters Foundation and InWent, a capacity building international institution funded by the German government. Fredrick joined NMG in June 2002 as a business desk sub editor having worked briefly with Kitara Publishers, a local publishing company. He held several positions with the Daily Monitor, an NMG sister media outlet in Kampala, Uganda including, business and finance editor, Associate editor, and Managing editor for the weekend editions. Fredrick was then forced to take an early retirement in July 2012 from active newsroom journalism to concentrate on his family business following a spate of government harassment. He and his family were tormented by government authorities long after he had left the mainstream media. His works have been published in the Daily Monitor, Business Daily and he is a regular contributor on BBC World Service radio business programme. Fredrick who is widely travelled, lives in Kampala with his family.