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CLOSED – Training opportunity on land and extractives for Albertine-based radio presenters

With support from the Ford Foundation, the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is conducting a specialised media capacity building programme called the Uganda Knowledge-Based Journalism Programme. It is a two-year engagement aimed at equipping journalists with specific subject knowledge to enable them to contextualise, question, investigate and report with depth pertinent social, economic and […]

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APPLICATIONS CLOSED – Media relations course for extractive industries advocacy CSOs based in the Albertine

Course name Media relations training for non-profit organisations in the Albertine region Course dates 7-10 August, 2017 Number of slots 15 The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) invites staff of community based organisations and civil society organisations working on oil and gas governance issues in the Albertine to apply for a training course on […]

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Mulindwa Muwonge bows out with a split legacy

This article, published in The Observer of 24 July 2017, is republished with the paper’s permission.   ******* ERIAS MULINDWA MUWONGE, one of the most influential and controversial talk show hosts, breathed his last on 18 July 2017. The Observer’s ABUBAKER MAYEMBA looks back at his career that won him as many friends as adversaries. Mulindwa’s […]

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ACME Report: Uganda media coverage of the Kaweesi killing

On Friday, 17 March 2017, Assistant Inspector General of Police Andrew Felix Kaweesi, who was the force’s spokesperson, was shot dead in the city suburb of Kulambiro, where he lived. He was killed with his bodyguard Kenneth Erau and driver Geoffrey Mambewa. The event sparked intense media coverage in print, broadcast and online. ACME undertook […]

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Building coalitions for media reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: A consultation for improving local, regional, and global action

5-6 July 2017 Durban, South Africa A group of 36 experts in media and governance from 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa agreed to build a multi-stakeholder network of non-state actors working with governments, parliamentarians, and other stakeholders to support a conducive legal, regulatory, and economic environment for media and to defend independent voices, especially when […]

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