The first half of 2010 has been a period of heightened activity amongst media practitioners in Uganda. It is all because of the government’s proposed changes to the law that governs the print media. The draft Press and Journalist (Amendment) Bill, 2010, seeks to amend the Press and Journalist Act, 2000 (formerly Statute 1995) to […]
Continue readingA week before the killing in Rwanda of Umuvugizi journalist Jean- Léonard Rugambage, his top editor was having coffee with a friend at Café Javas, a trendy eatery at the Oasis Mall in Kampala. Mr. John Bosco Gasasira was stunned when he noticed that six suspicious-looking men had been monitoring him nearby, and soon he […]
Continue readingSomewhere in the middle of his speech before a journalism awards ceremony in Kampala recently, President Museveni had an important question to ask. “So,” he said, “is there press freedom in Uganda?” Journalists who covered the ceremony – the 2010 CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the Year Awards, perhaps the most prestigious event of its […]
Continue readingFour days after the bomb blasts that killed more than 70 people in Kampala on July 11, I received a call from a Ugandan friend attending an international conference in the lakeside town of Entebbe. “What are you people teaching your journalists?” she asked. “Foreign delegates here are in shock about the pictures they have […]
Continue readingThe Ugandan Parliament quietly passed what is commonly known as the “Phone Tapping Bill” three days after the bomb attacks that killed at least 74 people in Kampala on July 11. The Regulation of Interception of Communications Bill (2007) had been introduced three years earlier, but it had been withdrawn for “further consultations” after resistance […]
Continue readingThe African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) conducts and disseminates research on media performance and practice, media policy and regulation, and other contemporary issues in journalism and communication. We also welcome collaboration with individuals and organizations interested in research on the intersection of the media, governance, and society in Africa. For more information contact us […]
Continue readingAt the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) we believe that journalism and the news media are an ‘indispensable civic resource’ whose condition impacts on the health of society. We also believe that free and independent media are among the most important institutions in a democracy. They are as important in developed countries as they […]
Continue readingThe 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.
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