About the Course African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has obtained funding from the United States Mission in Uganda to continue delivering training on reporting health and HIV/AIDS under its wider Knowledge-Based Journalism Programme. The first training sought to equip journalists and media practitioners with the requisite skills and knowledge to engage in health journalism […]
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Photo credit: The Observer The three editors and five directors of the Pepper Publications Limited who have been in jail for almost a month have been released on bail. There was a sigh of relief from friends, family and relatives in the packed court room when the ruling was delivered at 12:20pm on Tuesday, 19 December […]
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Media entrepreneur Trevor Ncube has relinquished majority shares in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. In a statement posted on Twitter on 12 December 2017, Mr Ncube said he was “no longer in position to invest in the M&G”. He acquired shares in 2002 and oversaw the growth of M&G circulation numbers, the development of its […]
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Mr Joseph Muganda. Photo by Daily Nation Nation Media Group CEO Joseph Muganda is set to join Vivo Energy in Kenya, following his resignation from the media conglomerate. The resignation takes effect on 31 January 2018, according to a statement from the NMG board. In the meantime, Group Finance Director Stephen Gitagama is the acting […]
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Editors note: The suspended radio presenters named below were cleared by UCC to resume work on Thursday 7 December, 2017. Endigyito Radio is the latest FM station to be punished for what the regulator says is a breach of minimum broadcasting standards. The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) suspended the producer and presenter of a political […]
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Eleven journalists from across Africa this week participated in a five-day training workshop on reporting illicit financial flows and tax abuse in Africa at the African Centre for Media Excellence in Kampala. This is the third cohort of journalists trained under the programme Wealth of Nations, a partnership between the African Centre for Media Excellence […]
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Ugandans and the media fraternity have been urged to speak out whenever they notice abuses to freedom of the press. The call was made my US ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac while speaking at the launch of a book by Uganda Press Photo Awards (UPPA). “We all need to speak out when we see threats […]
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Photo credit: The Observer African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) condemns the high-handed manner in which the state has treated the directors and editors of Red Pepper, who have been in detention for two weeks. The continued shutdown of Red Pepper and its affiliate titles and radio station, the prolonged detention and delay to consider […]
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