The six-month project, which started on 1 September 2015, analyses stories on presidential and parliamentary elections with a view to establishing whether the media contribute to free and fair elections. More important, the project aims to point out gaps in media coverage of the electoral process so that they are addressed in good time.
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Press release China is holding 49 journalists behind bars, the highest number ever recorded there, making it the worst jailer of journalists worldwide for the second year in a row, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. The number of journalists jailed in Egypt and Turkey also rose dramatically in 2015, even as the number […]
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A newly-released report on gender in Uganda’s news media says that female journalists are more likely than their male counterparts to select females as new sources. The findings are part of the Uganda country report of the Global Media Monitoring Project 2015. For the past 20 years, the Global Media Monitoring Project has conducted “the […]
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A longer version of this article was first published on the health news blog Uganda Scie-Girl published by science journalist, Esther Nakkazi. To read the original article and for more news on the Health Journalists Network in Uganda Science Café’s, visit Uganda Scie-Girl. By HEJNU reporter Once a month, usually on a Wednesday afternoon, a […]
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Six years ago, Ugandan journalist Benon Herbert Oluka had a light bulb moment: independent funding of enterprising, in depth, sustained investigative journalism was happening around the world; why couldn’t it happen here? The result was a journey to the birth of The Watchdog, an investigative journalism foundation housed at The Observer newspaper. Through The Watchdog, […]
Continue readingIn July 2015, African Centre for Media Excellence received funding from the Democratic Governance Facility to monitor media coverage of the 2016 elections. ACME set out to monitor a purposive sample of print, electronic, and online media, focusing on coverage related to the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2016 during the pre- and post-electoral periods from […]
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Caroline Ariba, a reporter for Uganda’s leading daily New Vision, has won the 2015 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.
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By NTV Uganda A report released by the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), indicates that Ugandan journalists performed poorly in interrogating the feasibility of promises made by presidential candidates. The presidential campaigns have been full of promises by the eight candidates seeking to lead the country after next years polls. Many political observers and […]
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