Dates: 3-7 May, 2021 Available slots: 15 Location: Mbarara Application deadline: 25 April, 2021 The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) invites applications from journalists based in southwestern Uganda for a short intensive workshop on investigative journalism. The course involves a five-day training workshop — designed to equip journalists with skills to discover, uncover and […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that the role of African journalists in nurturing democracy through fact-based and pluralistic debate is still far from assured, a new study from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) indicates. In its 2020 World Press Freedom Index RSF notes that instead of allowing journalists to do their job of reporting the news, […]
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Ivor Shapiro, Ryerson University “That reporter is too biased to cover this story.” It’s a too-familiar complaint from news consumers — and sometimes also from newsroom managers — because people expect journalists to be impartial, detached or even “objective.” The fraught idea of journalistic objectivity was at the centre of a recent controversy at the […]
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FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat briefly detained by police on the campaign trail. Photo by Badru Katumba. This report by the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) focuses on Ugandan newspaper, radio, and television coverage of the 2021 election process. The monitoring was designed to cover all articles related to elections published in five newspapers, […]
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Tim Abraham, Liverpool John Moores University Beaten in India, in Test and One Day International cricket, the usual tour postmortem for England’s cricketers has got under way, though with a slightly different feel to usual years given it was the first time in living memory that the cricket media were not part of the winter […]
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