In September 2018, Nation Media Group (NMG) announced the appointment of former executive editor, Charles Odoobo Bichachi as the Group’s public editor in Uganda. ACME caught up with him for a chat on his new assignment. Did this appointment come as a surprise? There had been discussions and so I had been preparing myself by […]
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By Jacobs O. Seaman In a postscript to a Facebook statement that Yoweri Museveni made in the wake of the chaotic Arua Municipality by-election in August, the president said, “PS: Hon Zaake escaped from police custody.” Museveni didn’t explain what his assertion meant beyond adding that, “Police are looking for him.” Quite a cliffhanger for […]
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The Lira-based Unity FM station which was closed for allegedly inciting violence during protests over the killing of an 11-year-old boy, is yet to reopen, 10 days later. Two men of Indian origin are accused of killing the boy on November 9, sparking off protests in Lira District. The station was taken off air on […]
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Photo caption: Nigerians have the lowest trust in the country’s media, thanks to widespread misinformation. EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town and Dani Madrid-Morales, University of Houston Concerns about “fake news” have dominated discussions about the relationship between the media and politics in the developed world in recent years. The extraordinary amount of […]
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The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) conducted a series of studies on press coverage of public affairs in Uganda to provide systematic evidence to inform evaluations and judgements of the media’s performance.
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Press release New York, October 29, 2018–A lack of justice in the murders of journalists creates an entrenched climate of censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its Global Impunity Index released today. The eleventh annual report highlights countries where journalists are murdered regularly and their killers go free. All 14 of the countries featured this […]
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This article was originally published on unesco.org. More than a thousand journalists were killed between 2006 and 2017, according to a UNESCO report published ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, 2 November. Last year, the percentage of journalists murdered in countries free of armed conflict (55%) exceeded that of journalists […]
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Chris Paterson, University of Leeds It took a while for obituaries to start appearing for murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi – and there is still some uncertainty over the manner of his death. Turkish authorities are so far declining to release either sound or video of the assassination – both of which they are alleged […]
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