African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
A few weeks ago somebody posted on social media a screenshot of Nation Media Group Uganda’s Managing Editor Tabu Butagira email asking editors to promptly flag stories about President Museveni …
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Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford and Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford At the start of the pandemic, there was a striking sense of shared resolve and solidarity. Facing a public …
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By Ivan N Baliboola It is increasingly becoming difficult to find journalists living up to their expectations in Uganda. Professional practice anywhere builds on serving the public using a substantial …
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Uganda’s Constitutional Court has dismissed a 2014 petition filed by the Center for Public Interest Law, Human Rights Network of Journalists – Uganda and the East African Media Institute challenging …
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Franz Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand It is difficult to imagine a bigger journalistic disaster than the recent decuplets story by Pretoria News, based in South Africa’s capital city. But …
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Peter Cunliffe-Jones, University of Westminster; Alan Finlay, University of the Witwatersrand, and Anya Schiffrin Misinformation, best understood as false or misleading information whether or not it was intended to mislead, …
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Wambui Wamunyu, Daystar University As we mark World Press Freedom Day 2021, let us remember that 2020 was terrible for the press in many parts of the world. Two ranking …
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Tim Abraham, Liverpool John Moores University Beaten in India, in Test and One Day International cricket, the usual tour postmortem for England’s cricketers has got under way, though with a …
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