Muchazondida Mkono, The University of Queensland Social media platforms are providing Africans with an opportunity to counter negative stereotypes by giving them representational agency. More and more Africans use the internet. By the end of 2000 the continent had a total of 4,514,400 users. Seventeen years later it had increased to 453,329,534, giving Africa an […]
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Photo credit: Afrobarometer NEWS RELEASE: Popular support for a free news media has declined significantly in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania – three countries currently making headlines for government attempts to limit press freedom. Recent Afrobarometer surveys show that the proportion of respondents who say the government “should have the right to prevent the media from publishing things that […]
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Vision Group Editor-in-Chief Barbara Kaija has been recognised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) for her exceptional leadership in the newsroom. The Women in News Editorial Leadership Award is given annually to an outstanding female editor from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). A Thursday statement noted: […]
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African Centre for Media Excellence, with support of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, is pleased to announce a grant for ambitious journalists to collaborate on regional story ideas on the subject of oil, gas and mining. For avoidance of doubt, the story ideas must have an East African cross-border bearing and must involve collaboration between […]
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PHOTO: Makerere journalism lecturer, Adolf Mbaine, presenting the study results. A study on media self-regulation in Uganda has shown that there is broad support for non-State regulation of the media. More than 60 percent of those interviewed for the study back the creation of a mechanism through which the media would be self-governed. Presenting the […]
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