The author’s telephone call, the result of a previous day’s introduction by a mutual acquaintance, came in at 2:34 p.m. on Tuesday, October 12. We agreed to meet at 3 p.m. to go over the programme for the next day’s event. The event was the launch at a swanky Kampala hotel of the book titled […]
Continue readingAre local journalists too preoccupied with other issues and leaving the fight for Press Freedom to foreign activists? A journalist explores the idea after a recent visit by a team of international Press Freedom activists hosted by ACME. I recently moved from New York to Nairobi to protect you better; to be closer to you,” […]
Continue readingAfrican Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is a Kampala-based independent, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit professional organisation committed to helping African journalists to seek and achieve excellence as well as improving journalism and mass communication in Africa. MISSION: To inspire journalists to seek and achieve professional excellence. To help make our news media more reliable and […]
Continue readingAs most of the world now acknowledges, freedom of expression—including freedom of the press—is crucial to democracy and good governance. Only if news media maintain their independence can they play a watchdog role in society. Any government policy that restricts that independence—including licensing—must be examined closely. The report thus examines regulatory practices in more than […]
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Two years ago, my friend Bill Ristow, who was a Knight International Journalism Fellow at The New Vision in Kampala, wrote the following in one edition of his weekly training newsletters: “…if I were to make a sweeping statement about the Ugandan media, it would be that there is plenty of straight news (not fully […]
Continue readingCourt has dismissed a case against former talk show host and journalist Robert Kalundi Serumaga who was charged with six counts of sedition in 2009. The October 5 ruling comes a month after the Constitutional Court quashed the law on sedition. Five Justices of the Constitutional Court unanimously declared the law unconstitutional saying the sections […]
Continue readingThe love-hate relationship between the police and the media in Uganda was the subject of a meeting between representatives of the two groups in Kampala this week. And from the look of things, a lot more needs to be done for the police and media to working amicably and serve the public. It was noted […]
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