The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) offers specialiased short training courses for practicing journalists.

We also host public lectures, conferences, roundtable discussions and dialogues that highlight key issues around the intersection of journalism, media, communication, and public policy.

Focal Areas:

• ICT, New Media and Society
• Media, Peace and Conflict
• Media and the Environment
• Media, Democracy and Human Rights
• Media Law, Policy and Regulation
• Investigative Journalism
• Public Affairs Reporting
• Community and Alternative Media
• Media Ethics
• Media management

Selected Training Topics

• Conceiving winning story ideas
• Basic News Writing
• Interview techniques
• News analysis
• Writing eye-catching headlines, captions
• Editing for clarity, context, and completeness
• Design and Layout
• Enterprise and Investigative Reporting
• Opinion and commentary; Editorial writing
• Feature Writing
• Alternative Story Forms
• Libel, defamation and media law
• Harnessing the Internet as a reporting tool
• Multi-media reporting
• Online journalism: the basics
• Developing sources
• Political Reporting
• Health Reporting
• Business Reporting
• Education Reporting
• Photography and Visual Communication
• Numeracy for the newsroom