Q&A: Revisiting 9 Years of Tony Glencross at Monitor Publications and how the business is morphing into a digital business of the future Tony Glencross, is an all-round media veteran. He has been Nation Media Group Uganda's Managing Director since March 2015. He is also the second longest serving Managing Director in the company's 31-year history. He will be stepping down at the end of this month. CEO East Africa's Muhereza Kyamutetera caught up with him for an enriching interview on various issues including how the media is embracing its digital future as well as how he skilfully balanced the love-hate relationship between the Daily Monitor newspaper and the President.

Muhereza KyamuteteraDecember 2, 2023December 2, 2023

Tony Glencross, the outgoing Managing Director NMG-U

It has been announced that your time at Nation Media Group comes to an end at the end of December 2023. It has been quite a run. Do recap for us your time at Monitor Publications Limited. It’s been a significant journey in terms of what Monitor Publications was, and what Monitor Publications is, now. When I took over, we had just had a terrible year⏤2014. I think that was the worst year in many years. So from March 2015 when I joined, it was, really just about consolidating, putting systems in place, and focusing on the small things. The…

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