DEADLINE for applications is Wednesday, 19 July 2017 Successful applicants will receive a letter of acceptance by Monday, 24 July 2017. The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) invites new journalists based in and around the districts of Gulu and Lira to apply for its Foundations of Journalism training workshops. The three-day workshops, supported by the Democratic […]
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Media professionals have appealed for discussions around journalism ethics in respect to increasing social media use and mushrooming online news sites. Ms. Rachael Akidi, the BBC Focus on Africa radio editor, said media freedom comes with a huge responsibility to be fair and accurate, but added that this is largely not happening on social media. […]
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Uganda’s prisons system is plagued with problems. Journalists across the country have done a commendable job covering the plight of prisoners on remand, the impact of insufficient funding, and the crumbling and overstretched infrastructure. However there is a dearth of reporting on rehabilitation programmes, prisons management, juvenile justice, reintegration of ex-prisoners and sentencing guidelines. So […]
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This article was first published here in 2013. By Solomon Joojo Cobbinah A journalist queried: “What is wrong with calling a person who cannot walk a lame person? Even the Bible calls people who cannot walk cripples. What is wrong with calling a person, who cannot talk dumb, a person who cannot hear deaf and […]
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Driven. Passionate. Dogged. Intrepid. These are some of the words that judges of the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2017 use to describe Solomon Serwanjja. “In an age of declining funding for investigative journalism,” they said during the awards ceremony in April, “Serwanjja stands as a beacon of hope for the craft in Uganda and an […]
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Are you a journalist, editor, or blogger interested in learning how to make and publish your own charts? Apply for a half day workshop held at ACME on June 19th, with Quartz Africa, part of Quartz, a global business news publication based in New York.
Continue readingThe reported torture of Kamwenge Town Mayor Geoffrey Byamukama, sent chills down the spine of many in Uganda when gory images of his wounds featured in the media. The assertion that he was tortured at Nalufenya Police Station where he had been incarcerated on allegations of masterminding the killing of police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi, […]
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