African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
By Gerald Walulya and Mulatu Alemayehu Moges Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented economic challenges globally across various sectors, including the media. The economic effects of the pandemic, particularly, …
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By Theresa Chorbacher, Kate Musgrave, Rachel Pollack Insights from the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2021/2022 In recent years, civil society, researchers, and international …
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Journalists the world over face increasing digital surveillance used to hamper press freedom, promote misinformation or discredit their work. Press freedom, already in decline for 85 per cent of the …
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By Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist’s Resource You may have heard the term “trauma-informed” in the context of health care, education and, more recently, journalism. In general, being trauma-informed means …
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Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town The large-scale contamination of the public sphere by rumours, hate speech, dangerous conspiracy theories and orchestrated deception campaigns is causing widespread concern around the …
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Aditi Malik, College of the Holy Cross and Philip Onguny, Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University As Kenya heads towards elections, concerns about the outbreak of electoral violence tend to …
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Franz Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand For more than a century, journalism education prepared young people for the role of full-time professionals employed by sizeable news organisations. But the advertising-based …
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The information landscape in Africa – as elsewhere in the world – has expanded exponentially over the last decade. The proliferation of platform media, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, has …
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