African Centre for Media Excellence
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Anne Kiguta, a news anchor at Kenya-based Television K24, has been widely praised for speaking up against her employer after an interview on her political talk show, Punchline, was cancelled …
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PRESS RELEASE The African Centre for Media Excellence is pleased to announce that it has commenced a national project that will examine the state of the news media in Uganda. …
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Image by vishnu vijayan from Pixabay BACKGROUND The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is undertaking a research project to monitor media coverage of the 2021 General Elections. The purpose of the project …
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Dates: Monday, 12 October – Friday, 06 November 2020 Location: Online New deadline for applications: 08 October 2020 We are accepting applications on a rolling basis, please apply as soon …
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This is the third part of our series looking at the key issues journalists should pay attention to while covering Uganda’s forthcoming election. In our previous issues, we have tackled …
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Uganda’s 2021 general election campaign season is gaining momentum. The National Resistance Movement (NRM), Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and other parties have already completed their primary elections for members …
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The 238 entries submitted to this years’ Uganda National Journalism Awards showed that journalists are aware of the most important issues in the country, according to the judges. The panel …
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Only seven female journalists scooped prizes in different categories at the Uganda National Journalism Awards on Friday. In total, 34 journalists and writing teams won first-place awards in 19 reporting …
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