SoftPower News
SoftPower News is a Ugandan digital news outlet licensed by the Uganda Communications Commission. It reports on national politics, business, regional trade and sport, with an East African focus.
SoftPower News at a glance
- Country
- Uganda
- Region
- East Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- softpower.ug ↗
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SoftPower News front page, right now
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Is SoftPower News left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists SoftPower News as Center within Uganda's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.
Read SoftPower News beside another title from Uganda and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Digital-native outlets reorder their front pages continuously in response to reader behaviour, so SoftPower News may look different an hour from now — reload it alongside a print-cycle title and you can see which stories have staying power and which are traffic spikes. Because SoftPower News is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Uganda either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
Where SoftPower News sits in Uganda's press
SoftPower News is one of 5 outlets tracked in Uganda and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, Uganda ranks eighth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 64 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to SoftPower News outside Uganda, starting with East Africa, are Radio Tamazuj (South Sudan), Madagascar Tribune (Madagascar), ION News (Mauritius) and Comores Infos (Comoros). Opening one of them beside SoftPower News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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