ACME has today entered new partnerships with private, public, and civil society actors to fund the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2022, scheduled to take place on 14 December in Kampala. Inaugurated in 2014, the awards seek to improve the quality of journalism in Uganda by recognising outstanding professional work. They play an important role in […]
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Media houses globally are grappling with how best to produce quality content and remain financially viable in the wake of shrinking revenues, technological disruptions, the emergence of peripheral content creators, competition for advertisement revenues from big tech platforms, the COVID-19 pandemic and a myriad of other changes in the media ecosystem. Despite these challenges, it […]
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Image by Photo Mix from Pixabay Blayne Haggart, Brock University Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been a fast-moving disaster. It has also created a tangible problem for journalists, politicians, activists and academic scholars: Where do we talk to each other if or when Twitter finally collapses or becomes unusable? It’s a useful question. Contemplating […]
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By Kyetume Kasanga The government of Uganda is in the process of formulating a new legal framework for regulating the information and communications sector. A task force set up to lead the process is already working, with the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance as the lead agency. Available information suggests that the government has […]
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