My name is Edgar R. Batte and I have been doing journalism since my teenage life. I started out in school where I produced hand-written articles for my peers in lower high school.
In 2002, I got published in The Monitor, a leading privately owned daily newspaper. I am currently a Senior Correspondent attached to the Features’ desk. My work involves doing in-depth reporting of story.

I recently started my journey in taking photographs and I feel passionate about the experience it brings. Journalism and photography have a good place together. I have challenged myself to report on every beat in journalism.
I am a graduate of Mass Communication/Journalism and currently pursuing my Master’s degree in Diploma in Diplomacy and International Studies.

Apart from Daily Monitor my works have also been published by The East African- a leading regional weekly, African Review, Marimba Media, Daily Metro, UK’s Eyecon Magazine, Rwanda’s The New Times, and UK’s ecomedia.com.
I have been a trainee of the International Women's Media Foundation which trains journalists in developing countries with the aim of improving rural, development and gender reporting.

I am winner of the 2007 Golden Pen Award for the Arts and Culture category. I have bee asked to submit my works for the annual European Union Lorenzo Natalie Prize for Journalism which recognizes journalists for excellence in reporting on human rights, democracy and development. That was in 2007. I have been nominated for Young Achiever’s Awards (YAA) twice, in 2010 and in 2011.

I am winner of the Afrika Divas Awards as Best Entertainment Writer of the year 2011. I have been awarded the monthly journalist at Daily Monitor newspaper for August 2012.
I have been rewarded as Best Features Journalist by colleagues at Daily Monitor for the year 2012.

I was chosen to cover the World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference in 2005 by Action Aid International (AAI). I was trainee of African Synergy during in February, 2011 at the Sauti Za Busara (Sounds of Wisdom) Festival in Zanzibar.

I was overall winner Sports Journalist of the Year in Uganda National Journalism Awards 2013/14 and runner up Health Journalist of the Year in Uganda National Journalist Awards 2013/14. Part of my interests include reading, traveling, photography and watching movies.