New Vision was created by a new government to replace the newspapers the old one had killed off. The New Vision Printing and Publishing Company began business in March 1986, weeks after the National Resistance Movement took power, succeeding the collapsed state papers Voice of Uganda and Uganda Times. Information Minister Abu Mayanja recruited the British journalist William Pike as founding managing director; he arrived at the Industrial Area offices on 1 July 1986 and stayed two decades, credited with preserving real editorial weight despite state ownership, before resigning in October 2006 amid reports of government pressure. A 1987 Act of Parliament set the company's legal framework. It listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange as NVL after a 2008 rights issue, with the government diluted to roughly 53.3 per cent. Don Wanyama, formerly Senior Presidential Press Secretary to Museveni, is chief executive. Today, New Vision is mainly focused on Ugandan national politics and parliament, elections, business and agriculture, education, health, security and sport, published daily in print and online as the flagship of a multimedia group, from their base in Kampala, Uganda. One interesting fact: Its founding editorial philosophy, set out by the company itself, was to be supportive of the Movement's ideals but critical of its failings. The government granted the paper financial autonomy and editorial independence in writing at the outset.