This month, ACME is publishing a series of articles based on its book, Write Right Tight – Navigating Common Mistakes in News Reporting & Writing. The book, authored by award-winning journalist Richard M. Kavuma, goes to great lengths to point out common mistakes in our journalism (especially in reporting and writing) and, above all, provides practical […]
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Media professionals around the world are investing more time and money for online communications, yet not all activities have the desired effects. This practical guidebook from DW Akademie focuses on social media analytics and offers advice on evaluating and targeting audiences online.
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This article was originally published in Daily Monitor. By Harold Acemah On June 20, the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) and Uganda Human Rights Commission organised a one-day post-World Press Freedom Day dialogue for a variety of stakeholders in Arua Town, at which I was privileged to deliver the keynote address. Below are excerpts of […]
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Alana Schetzer, University of Melbourne The rapid spread of fake news can influence millions of people, impacting elections and financial markets. A study on the impact of fake news on the 2016 US presidential election, for instance, has found that fake news stories about Hillary Clinton was “very strongly linked” to the defection of voters […]
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A new UK aid package is to help promote media freedom in developing countries around the world, International Development Minister Harriet Baldwin announced on 10 July, 2019. One programme will look at creative ways for independent media outlets in countries such as Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone to develop better business models, by helping them […]
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A group of 33 press freedom and media development organisations, meeting in London ahead of the Global Media Freedom Conference this week, have called on all participating States to ensure the protection and safety of all journalists and media workers in compliance with their existing obligations and international standards. The organisations that represent and work […]
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Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town; Audrey Gadzekpo, University of Ghana, and Chris Paterson, University of Leeds An enormous and increasing portion of the foreign development aid coming into Africa annually is for media development. Foreign aid funds diverse projects, ranging from investigative journalism in Nigeria, to stories on Chinese building projects in Kenya, or […]
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ACME’s online resource centre has a wealth of datasets, reports, backgrounders and studies to complement and deepen your reporting on public affairs in Uganda. New to the online resource centre are: new laws on investment, taxation, environment and agriculture; policy reports, assessments and analyses; datasets on a large range of subjects from education and energy […]
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