TWITTER SPACE: Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022
Date: Tuesday 2 August 2022 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm Channel: Twitter On Tuesday August 2, 2022, African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) in collaboration with the Uganda Media Sector …
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‘Horse-race’ reporting dominates Kenyan media coverage of 2022 elections
Newspapers in Kenya have primarily focused on the two top contenders, William Ruto and Raila Odinga, paid less attention to key policy issues and hardly interrogated the claims made by …
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An assessment of types and sources of threats to press freedom and mitigation measures during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya
The onset of the impact of the COVID-19 containment measures by the Government of Kenya upon the declaration of the virus as a pandemic in March 2019 included increased violation …
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REPORT LAUNCH: Media freedom and threats against journalists in East Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is pleased to invite you to a virtual event in which we will release a report on media freedom and threats against journalists in …
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REPORT: Responding to threats to press freedom and the media in a time of crisis in Uganda
The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused unprecedented economic challenges globally across various sectors, including the media. It has ravaged the business world, leading to the crushing of stock markets, and the …
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Responding to threats to press freedom and the media in a time of crisis in Burundi
The outbreak of COVID-19 in the world in late 2019 has led to a dramatic loss of human lives across the world and caused an unprecedented impact on world economic …
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A documentary photographer encounters ACME
Miriam Watsemba first encountered ACME in 2020 when she applied to attend an investigative journalism training workshop that we were conducting in Jinja. From that workshop, she took her chances …
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REPORT: An assessment of types and sources of threats to press freedom and mitigation measures during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Sudan
South Sudan, recovering from years of conflict, achieved its independence in July 2011. The country’s nascent media industry is still being developed although, the relations between the media and other …
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