African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, Rhodes University Journalism globally faces a sustainability crisis. It largely stems from declining advertising revenue, loss of revenue to technology giants, control of news media by political …
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Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University UK culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, recently announced that the BBC’s licence fee is to be frozen for two years and that a new funding mechanism for …
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By Judith Kukunda | URN Ugandan Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has been granted bail. Kakwenza was arrested on December 28, 2021, from his home in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb and held …
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By Ivan Okuda The East African Center for Investigative Reporting (EACIR), the publisher of the not-for-profit online publication, www.voxpopuli.ug is appalled by the continued detention and reported torture of writer …
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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 …
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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. …
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Mikey Biddlestone, University of Cambridge and Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge In recent decades, people in the UK have watched climate change shift from being an abstract threat …
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By Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist’s Resource This tip sheet was updated on Oct. 19 to include information about the World Health Organization’s views on boosters as a health equity …
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