African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) in partnership with Internews and with support from USAID has organised a training on Internet Freedoms for university students in Uganda. The training will help the students understand what internet freedom entails and how it compares to or affects the wider offline freedoms most citizens are familiar with. Participants […]
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Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist’s credibility. However, journalists often fall short of the ethical code of conduct. We spoke to Dr Emilly Comfort Maractho about the ethical challenges facing Uganda journalists today.
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James Mahon, University of the West of Scotland In the last decade, smartphones and mobile technology have altered newsrooms, transforming newsgathering, live broadcasting and content distribution. Trained on an iPhone 4s at the University of Sheffield in 2011, I was one of the first mobile journalists in the UK. Over the course of my career […]
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By Bloomberg Philathropies The way journalists write or speak about road traffic crashes influences how the audience perceives what happened, who is responsible and what should be done in response. The recommendations in this document illustrate how reporting can help change the discourse about road safety as a public health issue and denormalize the prevalence […]
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Dear Journalists, We need to up our game now that the Annual Road Safety Week is not far away….early December and with activities lasting the whole month. Here are some ideas to start with and many more are coming from us. 1. You must have noticed that we have had a quite terrible week on […]
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When bombs exploded in Kampala on Tuesday, 16 November 2021, media houses dispatched teams to the scenes to report in real-time. However, keen news consumers almost immediately raised professional and ethical concerns regarding the way some of the journalists reported. They relayed gruesome imagery. And some of the “news” amounted to false alarms and misinformation. […]
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African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), with support from the United States Mission in Uganda, has completed a five-day virtual fellowship on reporting health and HIV/AIDS. A total of 35 journalists sourced from radio, TV, print and online media across the country attended the course, from 1 to 5 November 2021. The online training follows […]
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Downpours and floods in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan area are always a reminder of the many unreported and under-reported stories of the built and natural environment that Ugandan journalists and independent content producers can tell. Here’s a shortlist and some tips of ideas to explore: What is the cost of urban flooding to the urban […]
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